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HR or Triple?

R RedSoxFan21500+ posts
Local paper had this scored as a triple, but I say its a home run. What do you say?

Batter hits ball to gap in LC and no fence means its still in play. Batter rounds 2nd and player in shortstop position steps into his path.

Runner is speedy and clearly had the green light to go home, ball was just getting picked up by the outfielder who would need two cutoffs to get the ball home.

Runner, as a result of being blocked, stops at third. Umpires confer and award him home plate.

Triple or HR? I say HR. What do you say?
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Stats4GnatsStats4Gnats10,000+ posts
These excerpts from OBR should clear things up for you.

10.06 DETERMINING VALUE OF BASE HITS
The official scorer shall score a base hit as a one-base hit, two-base hit, three-base hit or home run when no error or putout results, as follows:
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(e) When a batter-runner is awarded two bases, three bases or a home run under the provisions of Rules 7.05 or 7.06(a), the official scorer shall credit the batter-runner with a two-base hit, a three-base hit or a home run, as the case may be.

7.06 When obstruction occurs, the umpire shall call or signal “Obstruction.”

(a) If a play is being made on the obstructed runner, or if the batter-runner is obstructed before he touches first base, the ball is dead and all runners shall advance, without liability to be put out, to the bases they would have reached, in the umpire’s judgment, if there had been no obstruction. The obstructed runner shall be awarded at least one base beyond the base he had last legally touched before the obstruction.

Any preceding runners, forced to advance by the award of bases as the penalty for obstruction, shall advance without liability to be put out.

Rule 7.06(a) Comment: When a play is being made on an obstructed runner, the umpire shall signal obstruction in the same manner that he calls “Time,” with both hands overhead. The ball is immediately dead when this signal is given; however, should a thrown ball be in flight before the obstruction is called by the umpire, the runners are to be awarded such bases on wild throws as they would have been awarded had not obstruction occurred. On a play where a runner was trapped between second and third and obstructed by the third baseman going into third base while the throw is in flight from the shortstop, if such throw goes into the dugout the obstructed runner is to be awarded home base. Any other runners on base in this situation would also be awarded two bases from the base they last legally touched before obstruction was called.
Stats4GnatsStats4Gnats10,000+ posts
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Originally posted by RedSoxFan21:
…Now the bad news is that the opposing team was the official scorekeeper and the official record is likely to remain wrong….


Ah, but there’s a very strong possibility that the news isn’t as bad as you think. I don’t know of any HS team that has their stats put in by the OSK, the way its done in pro ball. To the best of my knowledge, each team is responsible for their own stats, and don’t have access to the opponent’s numbers.

So, while what’s said in the paper will likely never change, that doesn’t mean it will always match what’s in the official record.

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