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18U gold softball, but I think the scoring rules are the same on this play in baseball or softball.

 

Ground ball through SS legs into LF, left fielder has it hit her leg and bounce away. She then throws her glove at the ball and makes contact.

 

Umpire awards (properly) third base and announces the batter gets a triple. I think he meant she is awarded three bases. I scored E-6 and two base error on E-7. Anybody have a different opinion?

 

...and yes, this was a top tier 18U gold softball team. Apparently the LF had tweaked her back and was PO'd she couldn't field the ball.

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Originally Posted by JMoff:

18U gold softball, but I think the scoring rules are the same on this play in baseball or softball.

 

Ground ball through SS legs into LF, left fielder has it hit her leg and bounce away. She then throws her glove at the ball and makes contact.

 

Umpire awards (properly) third base and announces the batter gets a triple. I think he meant she is awarded three bases. I scored E-6 and two base error on E-7. Anybody have a different opinion?

 

...and yes, this was a top tier 18U gold softball team. Apparently the LF had tweaked her back and was PO'd she couldn't field the ball.

In OBR, the ball remains live on this play (3B is only awarded once the play is over, I think, and the batter is allowed to attempt to score), and I believe it would be scored an error on the LF for the base award, and I assume you could also score an error on the SS prior to that as well, as described.  Not sure if FED would be different.

Originally Posted by jacjacatk:
Originally Posted by JMoff:

18U gold softball, but I think the scoring rules are the same on this play in baseball or softball.

 

Ground ball through SS legs into LF, left fielder has it hit her leg and bounce away. She then throws her glove at the ball and makes contact.

 

Umpire awards (properly) third base and announces the batter gets a triple. I think he meant she is awarded three bases. I scored E-6 and two base error on E-7. Anybody have a different opinion?

 

...and yes, this was a top tier 18U gold softball team. Apparently the LF had tweaked her back and was PO'd she couldn't field the ball.

In OBR, the ball remains live on this play (3B is only awarded once the play is over, I think, and the batter is allowed to attempt to score), and I believe it would be scored an error on the LF for the base award, and I assume you could also score an error on the SS prior to that as well, as described.  Not sure if FED would be different.

The runner had stopped at second and the play was dead when the call was made, so he got that part right.

Flat out announed to the entire croud he'd been umpiring 30 years and never made that call, so he could cross it off his bucket list.

I score it BHP....Benny Hill Play, Q the music and slap a bald guy in the head. 

 

One funny thing about this story is the umpire annoucing a "triple" because almost every umpire I have encountered have little use for stats and scorekeeping beyond the correct batting order and how many outs there are.  I am thinking you are right and he was pumped to get to show off a little about a little used rule and just used a little shorthand to describe the award. 

 

It is a lot easier to say and for the knot heads in the bleaches & dugouts to understand "triple" instead of "three base award for a fileder throwing the glove and touching the live ball"

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