passed ball

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   a pitch that the catcher should have caught but did not; allows a base runner to advance a base

   Broaderpitch

Questions about passed ball

What does passed ball mean?

passed ball means "a pitch that the catcher should have caught but did not; allows a base runner to advance a base".

Is passed ball a common word?

passed ball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.