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I have some situation questions on scoring high school level ball. I would like to get others’ opinions on how these should be scored

1. Grounder directly to third--not a rocket but not slow roller. Third baseman missed the ball and SS picked it up, but not in time so the runner reached safely. Is this an error on 3B or a hit?

2. Pitcher's pickoff throw went over first baseman's head, resulting in 2-base advance by the runner (the runner eventually scored on a double-steal the left-handed pitcher didn’t see). Is it a throwing error on the pitcher that allowed the runner to advance (scoring the "as if" inning, the runner would have been stranded)

3. Hard hit come-backer to the pitcher that was a routine 1-5-3 FC/double play situation. Pitcher got the ball to third and the third baseman fired to first. The throw from third to first was in plenty of time but drew the first baseman off the bag, resulting in the runner reaching safely. Is this an error or a FC? I heard an argument the DP is never assumed so it should be scored as FC

How are these scored? Are they errors?


thanks
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I agree with baseball17 on the 1st and last ones, but I’m afraid I disagree on the 2nd. Assuming when you said “over first baseman’s head”, you meant the throw was so bad he couldn’t catch it with ordinary effort, the runner moved from 1st to 2nd on an E1 throwing error. Moving from 2nd to 3rd on the same play was part of the same error so there would only be one covering both advances.

Whether or not the run would be earned is dependent on a lot of things. The most important is the outs. How many outs were there when the bad throw was made, and were there out between the time of the bad throw and the run scoring. Whether or not the pitcher saw what was going on is immaterial.

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