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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Baseball scoring question
Last night we had our 1st game in round 2 of our playoffs. We won 7-1 as one of our guys hit a grand slam in the 5th inning to put the game out of reach. The guy who pitched for us spent some time with the Minnesota Twins major league team in the early 80s.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone wanted to put their opinion in on whether or not the run that the other team (Reds) scored against us last night was earned or unearned. I say it was earned but my teammates claim it was unearned.
Situation:
Batter A singles with 1 out
Batter B walks, so 1st and 2nd with 1 out.
Batter C hits ground ball to our secondbaseman who flips it to short to force out player B. (now 2 outs). Our SS throws the ball past our first baseman for an error and Batter A , who was on second, comes around and scores.
So now we have 2 outs and runner on 1st base with 1 run in.
Batter D singles to rights, Batter C stops at second.
Batter E strikes out for out number 3.
The issue is that some of my teammates say that since the run scored on the error by our SS that it is unearned.
I claim that 1) you cannot assume a doubleplay so the situation would have been 1st and 3rd with 2 outs. 2)Since batter D then got a solid single, Batter A would have scored from 3rd base thus negating the error.
The baseball rules say that you must reconstruct the inning assuming the error did not happen. So if we do this, then I think I am right.
Any thought? (Bill?)
Baseball scoring question
Last night we had our 1st game in round 2 of our playoffs. We won 7-1 as one of our guys hit a grand slam in the 5th inning to put the game out of reach. The guy who pitched for us spent some time with the Minnesota Twins major league team in the early 80s.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone wanted to put their opinion in on whether or not the run that the other team (Reds) scored against us last night was earned or unearned. I say it was earned but my teammates claim it was unearned.
Situation:
Batter A singles with 1 out
Batter B walks, so 1st and 2nd with 1 out.
Batter C hits ground ball to our secondbaseman who flips it to short to force out player B. (now 2 outs). Our SS throws the ball past our first baseman for an error and Batter A , who was on second, comes around and scores.
So now we have 2 outs and runner on 1st base with 1 run in.
Batter D singles to rights, Batter C stops at second.
Batter E strikes out for out number 3.
The issue is that some of my teammates say that since the run scored on the error by our SS that it is unearned.
I claim that 1) you cannot assume a doubleplay so the situation would have been 1st and 3rd with 2 outs. 2)Since batter D then got a solid single, Batter A would have scored from 3rd base thus negating the error.
The baseball rules say that you must reconstruct the inning assuming the error did not happen. So if we do this, then I think I am right.
Any thought? (Bill?)
Tough call since I don't know how that works officially when it comes to double play balls, but if the rule is that you can't assume a double play then it seems like you would be right!