two scoring questions

baseball17500+ posts

I saw these over the weekend, and disagreed with the official scorer on both. Old scorekeeper habits die hard, I guess. What say you?

Situation 1. No one on, normal defensive position. Batter hits hard grounder between 1st and second, first basemen dives, still to his right, second baseman, on grass, dives to his left, deflects ball off tip of glove about three feet away. He grabs ball, but no play is made at first (pitcher trying to cover, would have been bang bang). Hit or error?

Situation 2. Winning run on second, bottom of last inning, two outs. Two batters previously, with same runner on second, batter hit long line drive towards right center gap, looked to be game winner. Right fielder closed and made the catch-very good defensive play. Batter now hits one to almost the same spot, right fielder again gets to it, has ball in glove, but doesn't hold on to it. Hit or error?

2/27/116:47 PM

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JMoff1,000+ posts

In both of these situations, you have to decide if the play can be made with ordinary effort. If so, it's an error. If not it's a hit.

Today at ASU, the Delaware CF had sun in his eyes on three plays and he dropped/missplayed them all. As scored, two were hits and one was an error. Quite frankly, all three could've been errors from where I sat but you have to take the totality of the situation in consideration when you make the call.

Since I wasn't there, I can only comment upon what is described.

S#1 - Hit
S#2 - Error

But again, I wasn't there...

2/27/119:15 PM

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