{"id":1638,"date":"2009-01-23T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2009-10-21T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:58:03","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 12"},"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>\u00c2\u00a0While facing the\u00c2\u00a0first batter of\u00c2\u00a0game, the home team&#8217;s starting pitcher\u00c2\u00a0suffers a knee injury and has to be\u00c2\u00a0replaced. The batter has a full count when the new pitcher enters the game.<\/p>\n<p>As the official scorer, you must choose whether the\u00c2\u00a0original\u00c2\u00a0pitcher&#8217;s statistics\u00c2\u00a0or the new pitcher&#8217;s statistics\u00c2\u00a0will\u00c2\u00a0be\u00c2\u00a0affected, based on\u00c2\u00a0what the outcome is of the plate appearance. Which of the following is true?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> -\u00c2\u00a0A strike-out and a walk\u00c2\u00a0would be assigned to the original pitcher.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; A strike-out\u00c2\u00a0would be credited to the original pitcher but a walk would be charged to the new pitcher.<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0A strike-out\u00c2\u00a0would be credited to the\u00c2\u00a0new pitcher but a walk would be charged to the\u00c2\u00a0original pitcher.<br \/>\n<strong>D<\/strong> &#8211; A strike-out and a walk\u00c2\u00a0would be assigned to the\u00c2\u00a0new pitcher.<\/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; A strike-out\u00c2\u00a0would be charged to the\u00c2\u00a0new pitcher but a walk would be charged to the\u00c2\u00a0original pitcher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule\u00c2\u00a010.16(f)(1) states:<br \/>\n<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">If, when pitchers are changed, the count is<br \/>\n2 balls, no strike,<br \/>\n2 balls, 1 strike,<br \/>\n3 balls, no strike,<br \/>\n3 balls, 1 strike,<br \/>\n3 balls, 2 strikes,<br \/>\nand the batter gets a base on balls, the official scorer shall charge that batter and the base on balls to the preceding pitcher, not to the relief pitcher.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule\u00c2\u00a010.16(f)(2) states:<br \/>\n<em>Any other action by such batter &#8230; shall cause such a batter to be charged to the relief pitcher.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario:\u00c2\u00a0While facing the\u00c2\u00a0first batter of\u00c2\u00a0game, the home team&#8217;s starting pitcher\u00c2\u00a0suffers a knee injury and has to be\u00c2\u00a0replaced. The batter has a full count when the new pitcher enters the game. As the official scorer, you must choose whether the\u00c2\u00a0original\u00c2\u00a0pitcher&#8217;s statistics\u00c2\u00a0or the new pitcher&#8217;s statistics\u00c2\u00a0will\u00c2\u00a0be\u00c2\u00a0affected, based on\u00c2\u00a0what the outcome is of the plate appearance. Which of [&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-1638","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\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5705,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/5705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}