Another interesting scoring question

GunnerShotgun · May 9, 2017

Sparky Guy said:
As for the E. It's your scorebook and you're entitled to mark it as you wish.

I thought that was the whole point; there are official rules on how to keep book.

I side with Coach James in that someone would be getting an error. If you choose not to field a fly ball (or a bunt as in the other thread) from a coaches perspective that is an error. I realize that the official scoring rules differ in that regard (which was what I was interested in.).

It seems odd to stick that potential run on the pitcher when a routine play was not made.

coach james · May 9, 2017

GunnerShotgun said:
I thought that was the whole point; there are official rules on how to keep book.

It seems odd to stick that potential run on the pitcher when a routine play was not made.

Gunner wrote what I was thinking!

You're right, I wasn't there, however the OP states that the 1B took a step forward then stopped and called for the P to make the play, only to have the ball fall at her feet. This seems like an error to me, and the P should not have an "earned run" scored against her for the lack of effort on the 1B's behalf..... my 2 cent

ihaterain · May 9, 2017

We had a similar situation in the OF last weekend. Ball was hit high enough for OF to get to it. She misread it and broke the wrong way, then had to redirect and wound up running the distance with her glove out. The ball landed about a foot from where she was running and she overran it. By the time the ball got to the cutoff, the runner had reached 3B. Kinda hard to assign a triple to that when it was clearly a catchable ball.

canyonjoe · May 9, 2017

If you want to use official rules it's not an error. You can argue all you want that she should have had it, but it's not an error. I personally think that the scoring rules should be changed to allow for mental errors but until they make the change those that call it an error are not observing scoring rules.

Sweet Lou · May 9, 2017

GunnerShotgun said:
I thought that was the whole point; there are official rules on how to keep book.

I side with Coach James in that someone would be getting an error. If you choose not to field a fly ball (or a bunt as in the other thread) from a coaches perspective that is an error. I realize that the official scoring rules differ in that regard (which was what I was interested in.).

It seems odd to stick that potential run on the pitcher when a routine play was not made.

You can do what you want, but you would be completely and totally ignoring generally accepted official scoring rules.

GunnerShotgun · May 9, 2017

I am not arguing or trying to convince anyone of anything. I was just curious on what the *official* ruling was.

It makes stats like ERA less relevant than it already is. Now I can go over to our scorekeeper and tell them to mark that as an error if they hadn't done so.

Sparky Guy · May 9, 2017

It seems odd to stick that potential run on the pitcher when a routine play was not made.

My DD pitched all the way through college. Never liked to see earned runs charged to her that were "by the rules". But that's the way it goes. So long as every other pitcher's stats were based on the same criteria, I had no problem with the official scorekeeping rules.

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