ANSWERS: 2
  • A passed ball is an error on the catcher because he should have caught it. A wild pitch is an error on the pitcher because the pitch was so bad that the catcher had no chance to catch it.
  • In the scoring, neither wild pitches nor passed balls are treated as true errors. They are charged against the pitcher or catcher, but do not count as errors in the box score and are not figured into the pitcher's or catcher's fielding percentage. This is because the pitcher and catcher handle the ball so many times during a game. They would figure in calculating a pitcher's ERA.

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