Had something interesting happen last evening. We were playing a game and I was tutoring one of our coaches in scorekeeping. We were substantially ahead and had a runners on the corners with 1 out. Our batter hit a medium hard grounder a little to the glove side of the F5 and the runners took off on contact. The F5 fielded the ball, looked at the runner heading toward the plate, then threw to 1st barely in time to get the batter with R3 scoring and R1 going to 2nd.
My "student" asked if that was an RBI. I told him yes, and a very strange thing happened. The PU heard what I’d said and said there was no RBI because it was a fielder’s choice. He said when the F5 looked at R3, he chose to get the out at 1st rather than at the plate, so it wasn’t an RBI.
I was pretty much in shock because it’s very rarely an umpire will say anything about how a play is scored. He didn’t say it in a way that was an attempt at anything other than trying to be helpful so it didn’t bother me at all, but I did let him know that’s why he was the umpire and I was the SK, and we both had a chuckle. 