@T_Thomas posted:Notice it says "and is not handled by the catcher"
I fully agree that if the ball bounces through the cstchers legs and he chases it to the backstop and makes a desperation throw , call it a wild pitch.
But if it short hops into the mitt, and the catcher has a routine throw to first to retire the runner by 10 feet, and airmails it into right field, its an E2.
Same situation as the first baseman picking that throw in the dirt to save the error on infielder, but then throwing it into left field trying to backpack runner on 2nd.
Yours is a tortured interpretation. The OP never stated that it short hoped into the mitt. If a ball hits the dirt and the catcher blocks it, the ball has not been “handled”, it’s a wild pitch. The definition of “handled” is to control with the hands.
Your first baseman example implies two separate possible errors. A runner reaching first base on a throwing error by a fielder other than 1B and a second error by 1B “trying to backpack a runner at 2B”. Whatever backpacking means, if it allowed a runner another base it’s an error.