PWPW posted:
…And I believe in your game the error should be on the catcher for dropping the ball.
If you look at the definition of a catch posted above, how can the catcher drop a ball he never caught?
Not on the fielder that 1 hopped the throw if the runner would have been out on the tag.
As you can see below, there’s no way the receiver of a throw ever gets charged with an error on a throw that touched the ground unless the ball is caught and the fielder has plenty of time to tag the runner.
OBR Rule 10.12(a)(1) Comment:
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If a throw is low, wide or high, or strikes the ground, and a runner reaches base who otherwise would have been put out by such throw, the official scorer shall charge the player making the throw with an error.