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One pitch, if thrown outside of the strike zone is one ball in Baseball. Four pitches thrown outside of the strike zone during the course of one at-bat equals a walk, also referred to as a base-on-balls (BB)

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Take the pitch count and divide it by the number of batters faced.

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