Scoring a "tipped ball" play

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Bearcat09
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Re: Scoring a "tipped ball" play

Post by Bearcat09 » Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:02 pm

On this same type of play, hard ground ball hit between 3rd and SS. 3rd baseman playing up, SS playing back. 3rd basemen dives and tips balls towards where SS just was, but SS was headed back and to the right to try and field ball, so he was out of position. No play was made and runner reached 1st base. The SS probably would have been able to field ball with (his) normal effort (we have a jam up SS) and gotten the out. Is the 3rd baseman charged an error?
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Re: Scoring a "tipped ball" play

Post by FTMSupport » Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:21 pm

No. Base Hit.

This scenario is specifically covered in MLB rules:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/of ... rer_10.jsp

10.05 Base Hits
A base hit is a statistic credited to a batter when such batter reaches base safely, as set forth in this Rule 10.05.
(a) The official scorer shall credit a batter with a base hit when:
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(2) the batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball hit with such force, or so slowly, that any fielder attempting to make a play with the ball has no opportunity to do so;
Rule 10.05(a)(2) Comment: The official scorer shall credit a hit if the fielder attempting to handle the ball cannot make a play, even if such fielder deflects the ball from or cuts off another fielder who could have put out a runner.
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Re: Scoring a "tipped ball" play

Post by Bearcat09 » Fri Mar 29, 2013 3:44 am

Thank you!
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Re: Scoring a "tipped ball" play

Post by grstatdoc » Fri Jan 23, 2015 2:19 pm

mprusak wrote:
PetroGuy wrote:I agree with the error based on your further description. 5 and 6 should get assists and the error goes to 3.
Actually, 5 would get an assist, but the error is on 6 not 3.
No, 5 wouldn't get an assist either, since it was 6's bad throw (having agreed he had a chance to make a good throw with ordinary effort) that allowed the batter-runner to be safe.
(Now, had 6 made a good throw that was muffed by the 1B, then - and only then - assists may be credited to 5 and 6 on this play)
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