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    This is probably a simple question, but how do you score a strikeout with a dropped third strike when the batter/runner reaches first base safely? Would it be K E2? Thanks for letting me know.

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    It's just recorded as a strikeout for the pitcher with a putout or an assist for the catcher, depending on whether he tagged the batter or threw to first. Catchers don't get errors on dropped balls, they only get recorded as passed balls if a runner advances.

    It would only be an error if the catcher made a bad throw.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GOINGDEEP View Post
    It's just recorded as a strikeout for the pitcher with a putout or an assist for the catcher, depending on whether he tagged the batter or threw to first. Catchers don't get errors on dropped balls, they only get recorded as passed balls if a runner advances.

    It would only be an error if the catcher made a bad throw.
    So if the batter/runner makes it to first base safely by beating the throw, it would be recorded as a passed ball?

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    10.13 b*
    "The official scorer shall charge a catcher with a passed ball when the catcher fails to*
    hold or to control a legally pitched ball that should have been held or controlled with*
    ordinary effort, thereby permitting a runner or runners to advance. When the third strike is a passed ball, permitting the batter to reach first base, the official scorer*
    shall score a strikeout and a passed ball."

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    Thanks for the clarification.

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    No prob bud.

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    It wasn't a passed ball. It was a wild pitch/swinging third strike, so K+WP in my book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GOINGDEEP View Post
    10.13 b*
    "The official scorer shall charge a catcher with a passed ball when the catcher fails to*
    hold or to control a legally pitched ball that should have been held or controlled with*
    ordinary effort, thereby permitting a runner or runners to advance. When the third strike is a passed ball, permitting the batter to reach first base, the official scorer*
    shall score a strikeout and a passed ball."
    ^Pitcher's dad
    Quote Originally Posted by Greenmonsters View Post
    It wasn't a passed ball. It was a wild pitch/swinging third strike, so K+WP in my book.
    ^Catcher's dad
    Last edited by Sweet Lou; 05-02-2012 at 04:34 PM.

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    Interesting, I've always just scored it D3K if the runner reaches 1B safely, and just a K 2-3 if thrown out

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    Sweet Lou, that was funny!!! Lol

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