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Thursday, August 18, 2005
This week’s Designated Hitter is the official scorer for the Washington Nats...David Vincent. Join him as he takes an amazing look at the duties of a ML official scorer.
The qualifications for a scorer are: (1) knowing the rules, especially section 10; (2) knowing how to apply the rules; (3) having the integrity to make the correct call regardless of the consequences; (4) understanding that someone who questions a call is upset at the call not the person making it; and (5) being aware of the entire field during a play.
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Posted: August 18, 2005 at 05:37 PM | 19 comment(s)
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At games, I ALWAYS keep score - makes me pay attention. More than half a dozen times I've been asked if I'm a scout.
I got only 18 of 19 on the quiz, however... I would have called #1 a fielder's choice, no CS.
I have always been asked repeatedly if I'm a scout. Once, I was asked while sitting in the leftfield upper deck at the Metrodome while I was 13 years old.
I'm surprised because scouts don't typically keep score. They usually are equipped with radar guns and stopwatches, not scorebooks. To the extent scouts use a pencil or pen, they usually are jotting down comments in notebooks and oversized index cards.
Hardly any of the fans in Japan keep score. It's just not done.
Despite this, the Japanese are very good at keeping you alerted to defensive changes. I don't think I've ever seen a double switch though, but the managers will rotate players around a few positions during a game.
The only problem I have at games as a non-Japanese speaker is wild pitches and passed balls because they don't seem to indicate those on scoreboards or if they do, it's in Japanese. They may announce it.
The hit/error decisions are usually put up while the play is in motion!
Here was one knotty scoring play, I saw.
It was in my Baseball Analysts piece. Guy hits a flyball to center in the Tokyo Dome. Shinjo (or should I say SHINJO) loses it in the canvas. The middle infielders AND the third baseman run out to help, but the ball drops in and the batter reaches second easily.
Then once he's on second he looks over at third and realizes that no one is there and he takes off while the other team chases him to the base. The batter is safe at third.
What's the call?
i have my scorebook at every game and i make notes on the opposite page and it looks like code cuz of my dyslexia so i have been asked at LEAST a dozen times if i'm a scout.
and i'm FEMALE
and as far as i know, there are no female scouts.
baseball clubs might could have a problem with us, but the fans don't seem to
Re: #6, the rainout question:
The minors do not follow the MLB rule of the "official tie for the stats but must be replayed" rule. In the minors, the home GM contacts the league president and the game will be suspended and finished the next day or upon the team's return. I'm not so sure what happens if the team does not return.
There are a few, but not many. I've seen a couple at low A games.
The minors do not follow the MLB rule of the "official tie for the stats but must be replayed" rule. In the minors, the home GM contacts the league president and the game will be suspended and finished the next day or upon the team's return. I'm not so sure what happens if the team does not return.
If the team does not return, a suspended game will be completed during the next series at the other team's home field; otherwise, the MLB rule is used. This is covered in MLB rule 4.11 and 4.12.
I was 18/19, also missing #10.
This is probably a good time to repost this link to the rules of baseball.
-- MWE
-- MWE
I thought it would be a triple, but it was scored as a double and a fielders choice.
I think the scorer operated on the theory that the batter had stopped at second base before he ran to third.
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