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A wild pitch usually passes the catcher behind home plate, often allowing runners on base easy advancement. A closely related statistic is the Passed Ball . 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 wild pitch is not scored as an '' Error ''. A run that scores because of a wild pitch is counted as an Earned Run . Nolan Ryan is the all-time leader in the category, at 277. Mickey Welch is second (274). After that, a large drop off is present, with the 3rd place Tim Keefe only having 233 all-time wild pitches. Bill Stemmeyer still holds the single-season record, with 63 in 1886 . The single-season record since 1901 is Red Ames with 30 in 1905 . |