passed ball

Other forms: passed balls

Definitions of passed ball
  1. noun
    a pitch that the catcher should have caught but did not; allows a base runner to advance a base
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    type of:
    delivery, pitch
    (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
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