Scoring Question

Catcher, 2U.

Thank you.

When I saw the question, like most people with a lot of scoring experience, the catcher was the automatic response. But as I think about it, its really a good question because it shows the importance of know what to look for and where to look for it in the rule book.

In OBR, there’s a rule section devoted entirely to put outs. 10.09. But if you read it, you won’t see the original question answered. There has to be a bit more digging done, that will take you outside the scorer’s rule, and into the game conduct rules.

ok, so n your opinion who gets the out?

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Originally posted by IEBSBL:
ok, so n your opinion who gets the out?

There’s no “opinion” about it . getoverthere was 100% correct. I was just trying to point out that finding out answers to questions like that, sometimes takes more than simply opening the rule book to a place that says, “The catcher gets a putout when:..”.

Sometimes getting the correct answer is difficult, but almost always there’s a rule that covers it. In this case one has to understand why the batter is out, which is in 6.06(a). Once that’s known, its fairly easy to find which rule in 10.09 covers it. In this case, its 10.09(b)(2)

I meant no disrespect to getoverthere at all. In fact, quite the opposite. I also like to give rule numbers whenever possible, and give as much information as possible to the person asking the question, in hopes that they’ll give looking in the book a try for themselves. There’s nothing mysterious about the rules of baseball, other than sometimes you need to know just a bit more than is obvious.

Then there’s the problem of which rulebook covers the game being played. If it’s a HS game played under NFHS rules, you’d have to look in a much different place, and in a different place yet for the NCAA rules. In the end, the catcher still gets the PO and the batter is still out, but the language saying it is different and in a different place.

LOL...oh ok, I just thought you had a different opinion.