{"id":2395,"date":"2009-04-10T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2009-10-21T22:07:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:07:27","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 23"},"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 none out and runners on first and third, the batter hits a\u00c2\u00a0blooper\u00c2\u00a0over the shortstop&#8217;s head. The runner at third waits on the bag to see the play unfold but the runner from first takes up a position half-way between first base and second base. The shortstop dives and manages to make the catch, retiring the batter. At this point, the runner from third leaves the bag and heads home to score while the other runner sprints back towards first base. Unfortunately for the runner, the shortstop makes an excellent throw to complete a double-play at first.<\/p>\n<p>As the official scorer, would you credit the batter with a run batted in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; Yes.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong> &#8211; No.<\/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;\"> A &#8211; Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule 10.4(b)(1) states:<br \/>\n<em>[The official scorer shall not credit a run batted in] when the batter grounds into a force double play or a reverse-force double play.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">In the example above, though, the batter does not ground into a double play, and so there is no reason to withhold credit for the run batted in.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: With none out and runners on first and third, the batter hits a\u00c2\u00a0blooper\u00c2\u00a0over the shortstop&#8217;s head. The runner at third waits on the bag to see the play unfold but the runner from first takes up a position half-way between first base and second base. The shortstop dives and manages to make the catch, [&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-2395","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\/2395","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=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5716,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/5716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}