How Do You Score This Play?

[init4thegirls]

When I was growing up it upset me that coaches always said "score on a passed ball" or something like that. Being a catcher, wild pitch seemed a little more accurate to me. I would have caught it if extraordinary effort wasn't required. My definition of ordinary effort could be a little skewed as well. Coaching 10 yr olds now there are some swinging third strikes that are physically impossible to catch. I'm with greenmonsters haha

 

[GOINGDEEP]

Passed balls are "generally" just catcher mistakes. Tipping off the glove, not squeezing the catch, etc.*

Wild pitches are in the dirt, over the head, way out of the zone.*

And yes, to a catchers dad there are NO passed balls. Heaven forbid little Sally can't hold on to that round object.

(a) The official scorer shall charge a pitcher with a wild pitch when a legally delivered ball is so high, so wide or so low that the catcher does not stop and control the ball by ordinary effort, thereby permitting a runner or runners to advance. The official scorer shall charge a pitcher with a wild pitch when a legally delivered ball touches the ground or home plate before reaching the catcher and is not handled by the catcher, thereby permitting a runner or runners to advance. When the third strike is a wild pitch, permitting the batter to reach first base, the official scorer shall score a strikeout and a wild pitch.

 

[GOINGDEEP]

[video=youtube_share;pOWO37Q8jkc]http://youtu.be/pOWO37Q8jkc[/video]

^ passball

 

[GOINGDEEP]

[video=youtube_share;vOhCZsJGwOM]http://youtu.be/vOhCZsJGwOM[/video]

^ wildpitch


Now we will have to hear how "Green" scores them.

 

[rowdy]

That is too funny.

 

[Greenmonsters]

Good examples of PB and WP as noted. And FWIW, I expect my C to block the ones in dirt and her goal is no SB, no PB AND no WP. When the parent of DD P complains that the C should've stopped a ball from getting by, I smile and note that it wouldn't have been a problem had DD P simply thrown the ball in the vicinity of the target.

 

[GOINGDEEP]

Once a catcher can throw 100% of the time for a put out stolen base, that's when I will listen to them about a pitcher throwing 50 times the amount of the catcher, missing the catcher's comfort zone a few inches. A good catcher sets up the target, a great catcher can adjust to a hanging ball or one that breaks more than usual.

 

[Greenmonsters]

Once a catcher can throw 100% of the time for a put out stolen base, that's when I will listen to them about a pitcher throwing 50 times the amount of the catcher, missing the catcher's comfort zone a few inches. A good catcher sets up the target, a great catcher can adjust to a hanging ball or one that breaks more than usual.

I draw the line at jumping and diving!

 

[xsoftballgirlx]

If they make it safely, I record it as D3 (drop third) and E2 or E3 (error catcher or error first). If they get out, I record it as K 2-3 (strikeout; catcher to first).

 

[GOINGDEEP]

Which is fine, but you still need to stat as passball or wild pitch. Other stats that may occur depend on the previous.