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Was the 3B one assist shy of a triple double and is her name Russell ?
A ground ball misplayed by F5, but recovered by F6, and the play made to get the out, you would score as G5-6-3. Intentionally an assist or not, they still had a hand in the play.
Thats not the situation they gave. They said a pop up that came out of the third basemans glove, not a deflected grounder. The pitcher doesn't catch it, it's an error.Definitely not an error.
I lean toward giving an assist to the person who deflects the ball in this situation, too. There is a note in the scoring rules about how you don't award an assist if the contact is "ineffective" (I think that's the wording), but there are no case plays and I have no idea what they really mean by that.
Oh, and for those who don't know: Any runners tagging can leave as soon as the ball touches the third baseman's glove.
Thats not the situation they gave. They said a pop up that came out of the third basemans glove, not a deflected grounder. The pitcher doesn't catch it, it's an error.
And Error is defined as:
...whose misplay (fumble, muff or wild throw) prolongs the time at bat...
So you can not have an error charged on a play where a Batter Runner doesn't reach base or a Base Runner advances to a base they shouldn't have. Even if you dropped a pop up but still were able to throw out the runner it's not an error.
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I would score it an error due to the prolonged time at bat, unless there is a runner on third with less than 2 outs and the fielder intentionally let the ball drop.Would a dropped pop-up in foul territory would be counted as an error because the misplay prolonged the time at bat? Or is it just a foul ball because the batter didn't reach base?
Thats not the situation they gave. They said a pop up that came out of the third basemans glove, not a deflected grounder. The pitcher doesn't catch it, it's an error.
Would a dropped pop-up in foul territory would be counted as an error because the misplay prolonged the time at bat? Or is it just a foul ball because the batter didn't reach base?
Someone else used a deflected grounder as justification that it is an assist. My contention is that a popup that bounces out of the mitt is an error. The fact that someone else catches it would not make it an assist. Rather or not the play results in an out at first may effect how it is booked, but it does not change that it should have been caught regardless of what happened with the runner.I'm not exactly sure which part of my comment you're responding to because, quite frankly, it appears to not really refer to anything specific I said. Did you mean to quote someone else?
The situation given had the ball popping out of one fielder's glove and the other catching it in the air. That's what I and everybody else here is talking about. Your first comment said that should be an error. It's not an error because the ball was caught in the air.
The deflected ball language in the official scoring rules says literally nothing about it being a ground ball.