{"id":1648,"date":"2009-02-27T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2009-10-21T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:02:19","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 17"},"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 soft grounder that hops up into the pitcher&#8217;s glove. The pitcher has plenty of time to make the out but throws the ball wide of the fielder, allowing the batter-runner to reach first safely. The fourth batter\u00c2\u00a0punishes the\u00c2\u00a0pitcher for this error with\u00c2\u00a0a home run. The fifth hits a\u00c2\u00a0grounder straight\u00c2\u00a0to the\u00c2\u00a0second baseman, who, just like the pitcher, has plenty of time to make the out but directs the ball wide of the fielder, allowing the batter-runner to reach first safely. The sixth batter capitalizes on the second baseman&#8217;s error by hitting\u00c2\u00a0the team&#8217;s second home run of the inning. The seventh batter lines out to the third baseman.<\/p>\n<p>As the official scorer, how many of the\u00c2\u00a04\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\u00a0A &#8211; 0.<\/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;\">Rule\u00c2\u00a010.16(e) states:<br \/>\n<em>An error by a pitcher is treated exactly the same as an error by any other fielder in computing earned runs.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Treating the pitcher&#8217;s error like any other error, the inning should have finished when the third batter grounded to the pitcher, at which point 0 runs had scored.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: The first two batters of an inning strike out. The third hits a soft grounder that hops up into the pitcher&#8217;s glove. The pitcher has plenty of time to make the out but throws the ball wide of the fielder, allowing the batter-runner to reach first safely. The fourth batter\u00c2\u00a0punishes the\u00c2\u00a0pitcher for this error [&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-1648","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\/1648","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=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}