What is the correct scorekeepng on this play?

[SoAZDad]

14U Tournament single-elimination bracket. Semifinal game. Home team down 4-3 in bottom of 7th. 2 out, bases loaded.

BR rips a line drive to RF and runs to 1B. R1, R2, and R3 advance. F9 makes a fantastic effort, gets a good jump, takes three steps in and toward the RF line and dives for the ball. The ball short hops, hits her glove as she contacts the ground, and bounces hard to the fence near the foul line. F8 gets the ball and makes a good throw home, but not before all three baserunners score, as well as BR (standing up). Ordinary effort and/or the alternative approach for F9 would have been to take a step or two at an angle back and to the foul line, catch it on the one hop, let R3 score for the tying run, and try to throw out R2 at home to prevent the winning run.

Final score and call the play: 7-4 home team, and inside the park grand slam? Or BR gets a single and 1 RBI with winning and walk off runs attributed to F9 error?

Thanks all, for your input.

 

[Sweet Lou]

She dove and didn't come up with it; sounds like as HR to me...

...except...

Since it is the bottom of the 7th shouldn't it just be scored a single, 2 RBI and 5-4 win?

 

[Sweet Lou]

Oh and for what it is worth RF made correct play in my opinion. In that situation all runners SHOULD be running on contact and score easily from 2nd with 2 outs in bottom of 7th, her best bet is to try and made the game saving catch no guarantee she can hold the runner at 3rd or get her at home if she plays it safe.

 

[SoAZDad]

That is one of my questions. I thought 5-4 but I heard the home team scorekeeper tell someone the final score was 7-4. The tourney bracket is correct though, and recorded the score as 5-4.

 

[SoAZDad]

Me too, SL. The home team was my DDs organization, but what a great effort. I doubt many of the home team parents gave credit to the RF.

 

[canyonjoe]

Agree with Sweet Lou. final score 5-4 single 2 RBI's. If it were not the last inning it would be an HR.

 

[riseball]

I got 5 - 4. Game was over when winning run crossed the plate. Sounds like a heads up effort by RF.

 

[SoCal_Dad]

It would only be 7-4 on an out-of-the-park HR. Batter gets a double and 2 RBI's according to ATEC and NCAA rules.

14.6 Game-Ending Hit
14.6.1 A hit that scores a winning run is credited with only as many bases as the scoring base runner traveled as long as the batter advances at least the same number of bases. Exception: On an out-of-the-park home run, ground-rule double or awarded bases, the batter is credited with the appropriate bases as long as all runners legally touch all bases. In these cases, the winning margin may be more than one run.

 

[Greenmonsters]

It would only be 7-4 on an out-of-the-park HR. Batter gets a double and 2 RBI's according to ATEC and NCAA rules.

14.6 Game-Ending Hit
14.6.1 A hit that scores a winning run is credited with only as many bases as the scoring base runner traveled as long as the batter advances at least the same number of bases. Exception: On an out-of-the-park home run, ground-rule double or awarded bases, the batter is credited with the appropriate bases as long as all runners legally touch all bases. In these cases, the winning margin may be more than one run.

Agreed w/ prior posts, final score is 5-4. I will argue that it should be a single and 2 RBIs for the batter as there were 2 outs and runners would've been running on contact. I wouldn't call this a double (or a HR if it weren't the last inning) because the extra bases for the batter resulted from F9 taking a very aggressive approach (i.e., diving and getting a ball on the glove). That said, I think the extreme approach taken by F9 was the only correct approach and merited given the game-in-the-balance circumstances; therefore would not penalize F9 by calling it a single + E9 for allowing the 2nd run to score. If it were the first inning of the game, I'd be more inclined to give F9 an errror (for the extra bases advanced by B/R and R3).

 

[canyonjoe]

No way can you convince me that under any circumstance you can call an error on F9.