In baseball, a catcher is charged with a passed ball when he fails to hold or control a legally pitched ball that, with ordinary effort, should have been controlled, and as a result permits a runner or runners to advance. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each Catcher is also a general term for a fielder who catches the ball in Cricket. In Baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the Pitcher's mound toward the Catcher to begin each play with the goal of A runner who advances due to a passed ball is not credited with a stolen base unless he breaks for the base before the pitcher begins his delivery. In Baseball, a stolen base occurs when a Baserunner successfully advances to the next base while the Pitcher is delivering the ball to Home plate

A passed ball may be scored when a runner on first, second, or third base reaches the next base on a bobble or missed catch, or when the batter-runner reaches first base on an uncaught strike three (see also Strikeout). In Baseball or Softball, a strikeout or strike out (denoted by SO or K) occurs when a batter receives three strikes

A closely related statistic is the wild pitch. In Baseball, a wild pitch (abbreviated WP) is charged against a Pitcher when his pitch is too high too short or too wide of Home As with many baseball statistics, whether a pitch that gets away from a catcher is a passed ball or wild pitch is at the discretion of the official scorer. In the game of Baseball, the official scorer is a person appointed by the league to record the events on the field, and to send this official record of Typically, pitches that are deemed to be ordinarily caught by the catcher, but are not, are ruled passed balls, while pitches that get by the catcher that are thought to have required extraordinary effort by the catcher in order to stop them are wild pitches. If the pitch was so low as to touch the ground, or so high that the catcher has to jump to get to it, or so wide that the catcher has to lunge for it, it is usually then considered a wild pitch and not a passed ball.

A scored run due to a passed ball is not recorded as an earned run. In Baseball, an earned run is any run for which the pitcher is held accountable (i

A passed ball is not recorded as an error. In Baseball statistics|statistics]] an error is the act in the judgment of the Official scorer, of a fielder misplaying a ball in a manner

There tends to be a higher incidence of passed balls when a knuckleballer is pitching. A knuckleball (or knuckler for short is a Baseball pitch with an erratic unpredictable motion The physics that make a knuckleball so difficult to hit make it equally difficult to catch. While teams with a knuckleballer on their pitching staff often employ a special "knuckleball catcher" who is equipped with a knuckleball mitt, similar to a first baseman's glove, it is still extremely difficult to catch.

External links

• Baseball Rules See section 10. 13

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