This probably goes without saying for many that read this forum, but if a scorekeeper is serious about his task, this is absolutely required reading. This section of the rule book just covers so many things involved in scoring a game, like hits, errors, rbi's, pitching stats, and so many more. I learn something new everytime I read it.
Baseball is a game with a very long and complicated rule book, and has situations in almost every game that are confusing to score correctly.
I'll give a couple of examples and leave it at that.
Bases loaded and batter hits into double play, runner scores from third. Many scorekeepers will give the batter an RBI, rule book says no if you hit into a DP.
Batter hits a single to outfield and takes 2nd base on the throw to plate. Some will incorrectly score this as a double.
The other sections of the OBR are also very informative as well, but scorekeepers need to have rule 10 in the back of their minds all the time or a link to it on their IPhone(lol)
Feel free to share some situations that you had scored a certain way and one day discovered you had been doing it wrong.
I recently discovered on this forum that I had been incorrectly scoring bases loaded bunts as fielders choices when the play went somewhere besides first base and no out was made. As I learned on the forum, The rule book has a section that addresses bases loaded bunts. Apparently if no out was made it should be considered a hit, or a sacrifice if the play was made at first, and only a fielder's choice if an out was made at one of the other bases, or the fielder clearly could have thrown the batter out at first and chose not to.
Once again this situation like so many are at the scorer's judgement and your judgement will not always agree with everyone elses.
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