We had a pitcher come in in a bases loaded/no out situation. We'd already given up a run with a bases loaded walk. She managed to get out of the inning with just one run being scored and striking out the rest. Ended up pitching super well the rest of the game. Gave up one HR in the last inning she cried after the game - forgetting that she pitched really good. This team actually went on to win the tournament against some really tough competition and she basically held the team to 1 run as the other run she gave up wasn't even hers. It's always easier to see the bad and forget the good. It was essentially a pitcher's duel since both pitchers struck out like 15 total. Sucked that we couldn't get any hits to support her.
Hit or error?
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I was following high school game the other day. runners on 2 and 3. ground ball to 1B. error on 1B. Both runners score. Scorer gives batter 2 RBI’s. This is a manual input since GC wouldn’t give RBI on error. Batter was scorer’s DD.
I should do that
My kid loves to ROE with 2 outs!
All the people saying double are correct.
Scorekeeping is not what you feel scorekeeping should be. There are guidelines. Follow those or give the book to someone else.
The rules of scoring a game are not perfect, and some situations aren't always fair to certain players. But that doesn't give a scorekeeper the right to ignore those rules.
Scorekeeping is not what you feel scorekeeping should be. There are guidelines. Follow those or give the book to someone else.
The rules of scoring a game are not perfect, and some situations aren't always fair to certain players. But that doesn't give a scorekeeper the right to ignore those rules.
But what does the ball identify as? A hit or an error?
Okay, it appears you all disagree with me, so I will just take it that you're all wrong, but that's fine. ;-)
After the inning, the CF approached the pitcher and said it was her fault. My daughter then relayed the message to me after the game was over.
I have the pitcher and catcher on the team, so a PB or WP impacts either. As for scoring it a double, if my daughter was the batter, I would have scored it the exact same way as I did on my other daughter's hit to center.
Our coaches are absolute bozos, as I have stated in other threads. When they were contacted by our regional newspaper for naming my daughter as a top 100 player, the coach gave the stats from the book that the girls keep in the dugout. Those stats had her BA almost 50 points higher than I had in GC because the girls don't know how to score anything correctly. He also gave the paper 28 fewer strikeouts than she actually had last season as a pitcher.
The overall consensus is mental errors screw the pitcher but help the batter and fielder. Physical errors help the pitcher but hurt the fielder and batter. Softball is a weird game...
After the inning, the CF approached the pitcher and said it was her fault. My daughter then relayed the message to me after the game was over.
I have the pitcher and catcher on the team, so a PB or WP impacts either. As for scoring it a double, if my daughter was the batter, I would have scored it the exact same way as I did on my other daughter's hit to center.
Our coaches are absolute bozos, as I have stated in other threads. When they were contacted by our regional newspaper for naming my daughter as a top 100 player, the coach gave the stats from the book that the girls keep in the dugout. Those stats had her BA almost 50 points higher than I had in GC because the girls don't know how to score anything correctly. He also gave the paper 28 fewer strikeouts than she actually had last season as a pitcher.
The overall consensus is mental errors screw the pitcher but help the batter and fielder. Physical errors help the pitcher but hurt the fielder and batter. Softball is a weird game...
GameChanger is wild. So is MaxPreps. There are plenty of high school teams that call every batted ball where the runner ends up on base a hit. I'm talking errors, fielder's choice, all of it. Right now there's a girl on a team we played who somehow has a 2.333 batting average for the season. Probably a typo and not a scoring error. Or she's getting hits in her sleep.
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I always took Maxpreps with a grain of salt as it goes by whatever is uploaded from GC. A lot of teams never even use GC nor upload stats. My DD’s HS team never did.
Cannonball
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The only scoring that matters is the official book.
Cannonball
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For every post you read of mine for the rest of your time here, just take it that I am wrong. Why should I change now?
