As I've said before, I was the official scorer for the Newark Barge Bandits one summer. Best. Job. Ever.

Doesn't Joe Dimino work right alongside him?

I was at a minor league game when a visiting manager attempted to enter the press box and beat Vincent up....it's funny to me that Dave beat him to the bigs.

The quiz is pretty cool. I struggled with more than a couple of them.

I used to sit near the official scorer during games in the PCL and AZ Fall League. Good fun. I once convinced him to change a pitcher's 2-base throwing error to two errors (muffing a grounder, then throwing the ball away).
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.

There is widespread perception that hometown hitters get the better end of it on borderline plays that could be called either a hit or an error. I wonder if that is really true, and if so, can it be proven?

I think there's a tendancy to call a play a hit rather than an error. 2 of the 3 principals, the batter and the fielder prefer that; only the pitcher wants it the other way.

I'm a substitute official scorer in the New York-Penn League... it's fun. Except we don't have TV replays here in the boonies, so you really have to pay attention. The first game I ever scored featured 1) A rundown play involving six throws, and 2) A scorer's-discretion winning pitcher.

I got only 18 of 19 on the quiz, however... I would have called #1 a fielder's choice, no CS.

I blew both of the questions that involved runners sliding past the bag. I didn't realize there was a distinction between overrunning and oversliding a base.

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 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.

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'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.

I got asked if I was a scout in Japan when I was keeping score.

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 wouldn't have thought to give a caught stealing on #5, and I was totally at sea on #10.

i missed FOUR of these i can't believe it

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

I get to sit next to the official scorer at every Durham game. It's good stuff with BJ Upton's exploits this season (46 errors!)

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.

12 - triple.

and as far as i know, there are no female scouts.

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

Oh yes: any time I keep score in a strange minor league ballpark I get the "are you a scout?" question. If you get a chance sometime, get a seat near the scout section; you'll learn a lot by watching what they do.

-- MWE

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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.