. Rulebook

Rulebook:

  • In either of PB or WP, runner or runners advance.
  •  
  • Wild Pitch: Pitch is "so high, or so wide, or so low that the catcher does not stop and control the ball by ordinary effort", or "when a legally delivered pitch touches the ground before reaching home plate".
  •  
  • Passed Ball: "fails to hold or to control a legally pitched ball which should have been held or controlled with ordinary effort"
  • Good catcher = fewer wild pitches?

  • Wild pitches is catcher (and scorer)-dependent for pitchers.
  • Passed Balls is pitcher (and scorer)-dependent for catchers.