{"id":1307,"date":"2008-11-28T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2009-10-21T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:50:00","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5684\" title=\"YouAreScorer\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/YouAreScorer.gif\" alt=\"YouAreScorer\" width=\"473\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/YouAreScorer.gif 473w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/YouAreScorer-300x53.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nScenario:<\/strong> The batter hits a fly-ball\u00c2\u00a0to a gap in the outfield and rounds first base,\u00c2\u00a0slides into second, touches the bag, but then overslides and is put out before\u00c2\u00a0making contact\u00c2\u00a0again.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the official scorer, with what should you credit the batter?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; An at-bat but no hit.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong> &#8211; A single.<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong> &#8211; A double.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlight the text below to reveal the answer:<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00c2\u00a0B &#8211; A single.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule\u00c2\u00a010.06(c) states:<br \/>\n<em>&#8230; When the batter attempts to make a two-base hit or a three-base hit by sliding, he must hold the last base to which he advances. If a batter-runner overslides and is tagged out before getting back to the base safely, he shall be credited with only as many bases as he attained safely &#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: The batter hits a fly-ball\u00c2\u00a0to a gap in the outfield and rounds first base,\u00c2\u00a0slides into second, touches the bag, but then overslides and is put out before\u00c2\u00a0making contact\u00c2\u00a0again.\u00c2\u00a0 As the official scorer, with what should you credit the batter? A &#8211; An at-bat but no hit. B &#8211; A single. C &#8211; A double. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-are-the-scorer","tag-gbbsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}