{"id":1650,"date":"2009-03-06T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2009-10-21T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:03:13","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 18"},"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> With a runner on third and no outs, the batter hits a grounder straight to the shortstop.\u00c2\u00a0The shortstop looks towards third to hold the runner and then makes a good throw to first but one that is just not in time to get the out. In your opinion, if the shortstop had thrown the ball immediately rather than looking towards third base, there was sufficient time to retire the batter-runner with ordinary effort.<\/p>\n<p>As the official scorer, how should you score the batter-runner&#8217;s advancement to first?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; A single.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Reached\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0fielder&#8217;s choice.<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Reached on\u00c2\u00a0error.<\/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; A single.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule\u00c2\u00a010.05(b)(4) states:<br \/>\n<em>[The official scorer shall not credit a base hit when a] fielder fails in an attempt to put out a preceding runner and, in the scorer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s judgment, the batter-runner could have been put out at first base.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">But it is still a single, because Rule 10.05(b) Comment states:<br \/>\n<em>Rule 10.05(b) shall not apply if the fielder merely looks toward or feints toward another base before attempting to make the putout at first base.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: With a runner on third and no outs, the batter hits a grounder straight to the shortstop.\u00c2\u00a0The shortstop looks towards third to hold the runner and then makes a good throw to first but one that is just not in time to get the out. In your opinion, if the shortstop had thrown the [&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-1650","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\/1650","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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}