In this case, the batter reached first base on a dropped third strike. Do you score a K for the pitcher and an error? Does it matter if it's a wild pitch vs. a passed ball?
Thanks for you help.
Jon
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The pitcher gets credit for a K in any event.
As for how it's scored, it depends on how the batter reached. If the batter swung at a wild pitch, then that's how it's scored. If the third strike was catchable with reasonable effort and was whiffed at or muffed, passed ball.
Wild pitches and passed balls are not errors, they are separate categories.
A batter can reach in this situation on an error, though. Suppose the catcher blocks a curve in the dirt, batter swung for strike three. Catcher picks it up when the batter is barely out of the box but throws it away. Or catcher throws to 1B who simply drops it. In that situation, K, batter reaches on E.
You could also score both a WP or PB and also an E, if the batter would have reached first on the former, but also got to second on a throwaway. But to score both, you would have to have runners advancing more than one base -- either the batter or another man who was already on base.
As for how it's scored, it depends on how the batter reached. If the batter swung at a wild pitch, then that's how it's scored. If the third strike was catchable with reasonable effort and was whiffed at or muffed, passed ball.
Wild pitches and passed balls are not errors, they are separate categories.
A batter can reach in this situation on an error, though. Suppose the catcher blocks a curve in the dirt, batter swung for strike three. Catcher picks it up when the batter is barely out of the box but throws it away. Or catcher throws to 1B who simply drops it. In that situation, K, batter reaches on E.
You could also score both a WP or PB and also an E, if the batter would have reached first on the former, but also got to second on a throwaway. But to score both, you would have to have runners advancing more than one base -- either the batter or another man who was already on base.
Thank you. In the particular situation we had yesterday, I would say it was a wild pitch. The catcher retrieved the ball with plenty of time to throw out the runner who got a late break, but the catcher proceeded to fire the ball high into right field (E2 is what I recorded). Thanks.
Jon
Jon