{"id":1636,"date":"2009-01-16T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2009-10-21T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:56:48","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 11"},"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>Scenario:<\/strong> In a game that\u00c2\u00a0you are scoring, the visting team&#8217;s shortstop is involved in three plays during the game. In the first inning the shortstop drops an easy put-out, for which you charge an error. In the third inning, the player is involved in a standard 4-6-3 double-play. In the bottom of the ninth with two out, the\u00c2\u00a0player makes up for the earlier error with a spectacular diving catch to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>As the official scorer, what would you calculate for the shortstop&#8217;s fielding average from the game?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; 1\/2 = .500.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 2\/3 = .667.<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 3\/4 = .750.<br \/>\n<strong>D<\/strong> &#8211; 4\/5 = .800.<\/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\u00a0C &#8211; 3\/4 = .750.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule\u00c2\u00a010.21(d) states:<br \/>\n<em>[To compute] Fielding average, divide the sum of putouts and assists by the sum of putouts, assists and errors (which shall be called chances).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: In a game that\u00c2\u00a0you are scoring, the visting team&#8217;s shortstop is involved in three plays during the game. In the first inning the shortstop drops an easy put-out, for which you charge an error. In the third inning, the player is involved in a standard 4-6-3 double-play. In the bottom of the ninth with [&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-1636","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\/1636","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=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}