- May 13, 2008
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As a coach, if I ask a girl to lay down a bunt trying to score a runner from 3rd and she gets the bunt down I am going to give her a SAC or a hit, REGARDLESS of the outcome of the play. I am NOT going to penalize her batting average because she is being a team player. These kind of subjective questions are the reason stats can be very misleading. If you have 10 different people keep score of a game, there will be 10 different variations of the same game.....I was sitting in the stands next a lady keeping the book for a high school game last year when the batter hit an easy fly ball to the left fielder. The left fielder broke in on the ball and misjudged it, allowing the ball to land 3 feet behind her. The lady keeping the book gave the batter a 'hit' because she said the outfielder did not touch the ball......LOL
Not so fast...
If a fly ball is misjudged and the fielder does not recover in time to gain good position, a hit is credited to the batter.
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/Stats_Manuals/Baseball/baseball_softball_scorebook.pdf