Diving and awarding an error..

[_MIA_]

Hit or error though?

I would give an error but I am probably biased from watching so many MLB games and that would be an error 99/100 times. Not sure what the result would be if they went by the letter of the rule.

 

[Towny9]

I would give an error but I am probably biased from watching so many MLB games and that would be an error 99/100 times. Not sure what the result would be if they went by the letter of the rule.

Right. I would give it an error to for the same reason, but I would also say he misjudged it. Now our game changer mom - that is a hit all day, but in her defense she counts everything put in play a hit.

 

[_MIA_]

Right. I would give it an error to for the same reason, but I would also say he misjudged it. Now our game changer mom - that is a hit all day, but in her defense she counts everything put in play a hit.

I think we may have the same GC person..

 

[Bullseye]

I also don't rule as errors balls that drop between two fielders, but seems there's a trend toward making those errors now. I guess the argument is that they were in position to catch it but failed.
I'd still rule that a hit,
but understand how that's being challenged more these days.

Will you be changing your opinion based on that argument?

 

[Nimrod]

Will you be changing your opinion based on that argument?

Good question. Not sure. I'm not currently anyone's scorekeeper, so no immediate action required.

I think it's important that scorekeepers are consistent among themselves. So I would want to follow the consensus opinion (among professional scorekeepers), and that's whether I liked it or not. Too many people keeping score like to think of themselves as a generous or strict scorekeeper. Some even take pride in that. Goal should be to follow the book and to be neither strict nor liberal when compared to good scorekeepers.

Here's a debate about this kind of play from years ago. It makes me want to research it further and get more opinions. As I said earlier, I wish there was more you could do to learn about how to keep score beyond reading the rules.

Touchy subject: Hit or error when easy ball drops?

Touchy subject in majors: Is it a hit or error when routine fly drops between fielders?

www.usatoday.com

 

[gator5]

From past experience, it just matters who is doing the books and whether the coach's kids are involved. I swear that is how 90% of the scoring was done on our one team. The stats were "based on a true story" but in no way were true.