{"id":2398,"date":"2009-04-17T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2009-10-21T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:08:19","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 24"},"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>\u00c2\u00a0There are\u00c2\u00a0no outs in the bottom of the ninth\u00c2\u00a0and runners are on first and third. The game is tied.\u00c2\u00a0The batter hits a slow\u00c2\u00a0chopper\u00c2\u00a0back to the pitcher. The ball sits up kindly\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0the pitcher\u00c2\u00a0has an easy chance to\u00c2\u00a0field it cleanly. The runner\u00c2\u00a0at first\u00c2\u00a0heads towards second base, and the runner\u00c2\u00a0at third stays close to\u00c2\u00a0the bag. Unfortunately for the fielding team, the ball bobbles out of the pitcher&#8217;s glove and rolls several metres away. Spotting this, the runner at third darts towards home, and despite the pitcher&#8217;s best efforts to recover the ball and throw it to the catcher, the runner crosses the plate just in time for the winning run. Even taking the difficulty of fielding as pitcher into account, you adjudicate that the batter-runner reached first on an error.<\/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;\"> B &#8211; No.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule 10.4(a)(3) states:<br \/>\n<em>[The official scorer shall credit the batter with a run batted in for every run that scores] when, before two are out, an error is made on a play on which a runner from third base ordinarily would score.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">In light of the game situation and the ease with which the pitcher could have prevented the run, a run batted in cannot be awarded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario:\u00c2\u00a0There are\u00c2\u00a0no outs in the bottom of the ninth\u00c2\u00a0and runners are on first and third. The game is tied.\u00c2\u00a0The batter hits a slow\u00c2\u00a0chopper\u00c2\u00a0back to the pitcher. The ball sits up kindly\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0the pitcher\u00c2\u00a0has an easy chance to\u00c2\u00a0field it cleanly. The runner\u00c2\u00a0at first\u00c2\u00a0heads towards second base, and the runner\u00c2\u00a0at third stays close to\u00c2\u00a0the bag. Unfortunately for 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-2398","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\/2398","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=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5717,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}