Scenario: The batter hits a fly-ball to a gap in the outfield and rounds first base, touches second base while rounding the bag, but attempts to run back to second and is put out…
Keeping score
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Scenario: The batter hits a fly-ball to a gap in the outfield and rounds first base, slides into second, touches the bag, but then overslides and is put out before making contact again. As…
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Scenario: It is the top of the ninth inning in a tied game and, with the bases loaded, the #9 hitter just popped up to the shortstop for the second out. Although this was only…
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Scenario: It is the bottom of the ninth inning in a tied game and the #8 hitter just drew a two-out walk to load the bases. Instead of the #9 hitter coming up to bat next, though, the #1 hitter strides over to the plate and gets ready to receive the first pitch.
As the official scorer, what should you do about the team batting out of order?
A – Immediately notify the manager of the fielding side.
B – Immediately notify the manager of the batting side.
C – Immediately notify the umpire-in-chief.
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Scenario: With a runner on first base and no count on the batter, the pitcher throws the ball in the dirt, the batter does not swing, and the ball bounces up to the…
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The flow of games may come to a halt, but there really isn’t an off-season in baseball. MLB teams will simply divert all their energy to building for next year:…
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GBBSA website is relaunched
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayHere at BaseballGB, we have been running a countdown to the relaunch of the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association website. The day of the relaunch is now upon us. To view the…
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Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association
1 day till the relaunch of the GBBSA website
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayThere is 1 day to go till the relaunch of the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association website. As a last sampler… 1 is the number of times a player has…
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Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association
2 days till the relaunch of the GBBSA website
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayThere are 2 days to go till the relaunch of the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association website. To further whet the appetite… 2 is the number of pitchers who have…
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Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association
3 days till the relaunch of the GBBSA website
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayThere are 3 days to go till the relaunch of the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association website. As a taster… 3 is the number of times that Simon Pole has…