Wrong headline

Here's part of a headline from this morning's Guardian: "In baseball, a 'triple threat' is someone who can pitch, catch and run". And, here's part of the first paragraph from the same article:

Baseball has a great phrase for this kind of multitasking: such people are known as "triple threats". In baseball, though, triple threats are rare gems: men who can catch, hit and run brilliantly, making them the perfect player.

How on Earth did the editor come to substitute "pitch" for "hit"? Was it too difficult to follow those two sentences?