When a player reaches base on an error does it count as an AT BAT.
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Usually. However, for example, a batter lays down an intended sacrifice bunt. It works, the runner is advanced, but F3 drops the ball. That's an error that allowed the batter to reach first base, but it is not an at-bat, because it was also a sacrifice.
...ditto on a dropped fly ball to the OF that, in your judgement, would've been a sacrifice fly if caught (deep enough for runner to score from third, less than two outs). Batter gets a sacrifice fly, RBI, reached on error.
Basically, the batter gets credit\blame for what would've happened if the play had been made cleanly. This can result in an RBI being given if less than two outs, infield back, R3 breaks on contact but infielder boots the ball. If it'd been fielded cleanly, it would've still been an RBI, so its an RBI with the error. But a time at bat.
Basically, the batter gets credit\blame for what would've happened if the play had been made cleanly. This can result in an RBI being given if less than two outs, infield back, R3 breaks on contact but infielder boots the ball. If it'd been fielded cleanly, it would've still been an RBI, so its an RBI with the error. But a time at bat.
Thank you! I thought so. Here's another one that's probably very easy. Stolen Bases - Is it still a stolen base if the catcher does not attempt to throw the runner out? Someone told me that it is only a stolen base if the catcher attempts to throw out the runner.
It depends... Read the below and do your best. Simply saying the catcher didn't make a throw doesn't cut it though.
Defensive indifference can be scored per 10.07 (g) as follows:
The official scorer shall not score a stolen base when a runner advances solely because of the defensive team’s indifference to the runner’s advance. The official scorer shall score such a play as a fielder’s choice.
Rule 10.07(g) Comment: The scorer shall consider, in judging whether the defensive team has been indifferent to a runner’s advance, the totality of the circumstances, including the inning and score of the game, whether the defensive team had held the runner on base, whether the pitcher had made any pickoff attempts on that runner before the runner’s advance, whether the fielder ordinarily expected to cover the base to which the runner advanced made a move to cover such base, whether the defensive team had a legitimate strategic motive to not contest the runner’s advance or whether the defensive team might be trying impermissibly to deny the runner credit for a stolen base. For example, with runners on first and third bases, the official scorer should ordinarily credit a stolen base when the runner on first advances to second, if, in the scorer’s judgment, the defensive team had a legitimate strategic motive—namely, preventing the runner on third base from scoring on the throw to second base—not to contest the runner’s advance to second base. The official scorer may conclude that the defensive team is impermissibly trying to deny a runner credit for a stolen base if, for example, the defensive team fails to defend the advance of a runner approaching a league or career record or a league statistical title.
Defensive indifference can be scored per 10.07 (g) as follows:
The official scorer shall not score a stolen base when a runner advances solely because of the defensive team’s indifference to the runner’s advance. The official scorer shall score such a play as a fielder’s choice.
Rule 10.07(g) Comment: The scorer shall consider, in judging whether the defensive team has been indifferent to a runner’s advance, the totality of the circumstances, including the inning and score of the game, whether the defensive team had held the runner on base, whether the pitcher had made any pickoff attempts on that runner before the runner’s advance, whether the fielder ordinarily expected to cover the base to which the runner advanced made a move to cover such base, whether the defensive team had a legitimate strategic motive to not contest the runner’s advance or whether the defensive team might be trying impermissibly to deny the runner credit for a stolen base. For example, with runners on first and third bases, the official scorer should ordinarily credit a stolen base when the runner on first advances to second, if, in the scorer’s judgment, the defensive team had a legitimate strategic motive—namely, preventing the runner on third base from scoring on the throw to second base—not to contest the runner’s advance to second base. The official scorer may conclude that the defensive team is impermissibly trying to deny a runner credit for a stolen base if, for example, the defensive team fails to defend the advance of a runner approaching a league or career record or a league statistical title.