{"id":3503,"date":"2009-09-25T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2009-10-21T22:40:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:40:45","slug":"you-are-the-scorer-number-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=3503","title":{"rendered":"You Are the Scorer: Number 47"},"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 first the batter appears to have a hit a run-scoring triple, but the preceding runner is called out on a appeal play for failing to touch second base.<\/p>\n<p>The batter obviously loses a run batted in, but, as the official scorer, to what do you downgrade the triple?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; A double.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong> &#8211; A single.<br \/>\n<strong>C<\/strong> &#8211; No hit (just an at-bat).<\/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;\"> C &#8211; No hit (just an at-bat).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rule 10.05(b)(2) states:<br \/>\n<em>[The official scorer shall not credit a base hit when a] batter apparently hits safely and a runner who is forced to advance by reason of the batter becoming a runner fails to touch the first base to which such runner is advancing and is called out on appeal. The official scorer shall charge the batter with a time at bat but no hit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: With a runner on first the batter appears to have a hit a run-scoring triple, but the preceding runner is called out on a appeal play for failing to touch second base. The batter obviously loses a run batted in, but, as the official scorer, to what do you downgrade the triple? A &#8211; [&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-3503","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\/3503","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=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5740,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}