Originally Posted by Ron Van Redick:
Had a situation last night where a right-handed batter pulled a hard one-hopper that the third baseman was late to react to. The ball hit off his knee (otherwise, he never touched it). My initial ruling for our scorebook was E-5 b/c it was hit right at the fielder, but now I'm having 2nd thoughts. Would appreciate others' opinions on how they would have ruled it. Thanks.
I would mark it as a hit. I was at a ball game last night where the same thing happened. It was a one-hopper that bounced off the third baseman's foot, hitter got a double out of it.