Passed ball
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In baseball, a catcher is charged with a passed ball when he fails to hold or control a legally pitched ball which should have been held or controlled with ordinary effort, thereby permitting a runner or runners to advance or score.
A closely related statistic is the wild pitch. 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. The benefit of the doubt is given to the catcher if there is uncertainty, therefore most of these situations are scored as wild pitches.
A run that scores because of a passed ball is not scored as an earned run.Template:Baseball-stub