{"id":1640,"date":"2009-01-30T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2009-10-21T21:58:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:58:51","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 13"},"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> The first two batters of an inning strike out. The third hits a home run. The fourth draws a walk. The fifth hits a pop-up to the first baseman for an easy catch in foul territory but the ball is dropped,\u00c2\u00a0causing the first baseman to\u00c2\u00a0be charged with an error.\u00c2\u00a0The next pitch is drilled over the fence in centre field for\u00c2\u00a0the second\u00c2\u00a0home run of the inning. The sixth batter flies out to the left fielder.<\/p>\n<p>As the official scorer, how many of the 3\u00c2\u00a0runs do you charge as earned runs\u00c2\u00a0against the pitcher?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; 0.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 1.<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 2.<br \/>\n<strong>D<\/strong> &#8211; 3.<\/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; 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule\u00c2\u00a010.16 states:<br \/>\n<em>&#8230; In determining earned runs, the official scorer shall reconstruct the inning without the errors &#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Without the error, the inning would have ended with the first baseman taking a catch in foul territory for the third out, at which point only 1 of the runs had been scored.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: The first two batters of an inning strike out. The third hits a home run. The fourth draws a walk. The fifth hits a pop-up to the first baseman for an easy catch in foul territory but the ball is dropped,\u00c2\u00a0causing the first baseman to\u00c2\u00a0be charged with an error.\u00c2\u00a0The next pitch is drilled over [&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-1640","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\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5706,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}