What's the Score?

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Jun 1, 2015
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ASA rules. We are the visiting team in this game.

Score after 4th inning: Visitors 2, Home 10
Top of 5th inning: Visitors score 2 runs. Score 10-4 Home team - game is now technically official.

Bottom of 5th inning: 1st 3 batters get on base - first 2 batters score.
Batter 4 is up. At 12-0 count, Batter 3 scores on PB. Score is currently 13-4. At this point, there is thunder in the area and the umpires suspend play. Game is eventually called due to incoming storm/darkness.

My question: What is the final score of the game? 10-4 (after 4 1/2 innings - when it became official because the home team was ahead) or the 13-4 (when the game was halted and, later, called)?
 
Jun 1, 2015
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That's what I thought, but I forgot if the rule applied because the inning wasn't completed AND the leading team was in the middle of said inning while ahead.
 
Nov 17, 2010
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Actually isn't the official score 12-4? Game should have ended when the second run scored in the bottom of the 5th due to the run ahead rule.
 
Apr 17, 2012
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Wi
Tournaments can set their own but ASA has a 15 after 3, 12 after 4 and 8 after 5 rule. Doesn't mean tournaments have to use that or any variation but typically due to time limits their is a run limit.
 
Jun 1, 2015
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I thought run rules were just up to the individual tournaments?

In our case, this would be the situation. This isn't a tournament, rather a league where we operate by 5 runs/inning max. and difference of 15 after the 5th inning. I should've mentioned that before. Apologies for the confusion.
 
Mar 13, 2010
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Columbus, Ohio
.. since the umps did not call it (the run rule), assumed it was not applicable.

I umpire a lot of games and I hardly ever know what the score is (though I do check between innings if we're getting toward the end of the game and the run-ahead rule might come into play).

Contrary to what most people think, umpires aren't scorekeepers. There's somebody in each dugout with pencil and paper and time to count runs. The umpire has a hundred other things to watch and keep track of. The score isn't one of them. Leave that to the scorekeepers.

It's quite possible that a team will reach the run limit without the umpire being aware of it (and, by the way, same thing with automatic outs for players missing from the line up). If you hit that magic number...speak up! Inform the umpire that you've hit it because there's a good chance he doesn't know that you did.
 

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