{"id":1763,"date":"2009-03-20T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2009-10-21T22:05:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:05:01","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 20"},"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> A batter comes to the plate five times in the game you are scoring, striking out in the first\u00c2\u00a0plate appearance,\u00c2\u00a0hitting a double in the second, laying down a successful sacrifice bunt in the third, grounding out in the fourth, and then hitting a sacrifice fly in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>As the official scorer, what on-base percentage would you calculate for the batter in this game?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; 1\/5 = .200.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 1\/4 = .250.<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; 1\/3 = .333.<br \/>\n<strong>D<\/strong> &#8211; 1\/2\u00c2\u00a0= .500.<\/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\/4 = .250.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule\u00c2\u00a010.21(f) states:<br \/>\n<em>[To compute] On-base percentage, divide the sum of hits, bases on balls and times hit by pitch by the sum of at-bats, bases on balls, times hit by pitch and sacrifice flies.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: A batter comes to the plate five times in the game you are scoring, striking out in the first\u00c2\u00a0plate appearance,\u00c2\u00a0hitting a double in the second, laying down a successful sacrifice bunt in the third, grounding out in the fourth, and then hitting a sacrifice fly in the fifth. As the official scorer, what on-base [&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-1763","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\/1763","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=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}