Runners on 1st and 3rd, no outs. Fly ball to RF, runner on 3rd tags, ball clanks off fielders glove. Runner on 3rd scores, runner on 1st is forced at 2B, 9-6. What's the scoring, and is it different under FED than OBR?
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Scored as a sac-fly, no error, 9-6 on force out.
Originally Posted by Skylark:
Scored as a sac-fly, no error, 9-6 on force out.
I had to go think about this one...
Logic would say score straight FC to batter, RBI and no Sac Fly.
OBR 10.8 says different
(d) Score a sacrifice fly when, before two are out, the batter hits a ball in flight handled by an outfielder or an infielder running in the outfield in fair or foul territory that
(1) is caught, and a runner scores after the catch, or
(2) is dropped, and a runner scores, if in the scorer’s judgment the runner could
have scored after the catch had the fly been caught.
Rule 10.08(d) Comment: The official scorer shall score a sacrifice fly in accordance with Rule 10.08(d)(2) even though another runner is forced out by reason of the batter becoming a runner.
Don't know if I've ever seen this one, but if I did, I probably got it wrong.
Good call Skylark.
Even I had to look that up in the rulebook, hehe. Never had it happen to me with a runner on third in a sac-fly situation but have had it happen several times with runner at first/ first and second where ball was dropped but then picked up and thrown for a force out at a base.