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Originally Posted by John Robertson
In a game I was working last night, the score was 5-5 in the bottom of the seventh inning. A batter hit a three-run homer over the left field fence to win the game.
Softball Canada's rules say the game is over when the winning run scores. (No exception is given for a "walkoff home run" where more runs than needed to win the game are scored. Thus, very technically, the final score should be 6-5.) However, common practise seems to indicate the score is recorded as 8-5. This is really nitpicky--and it's more of the scorekeeper's domain--but it could affect a tournament in which runs for and against affect the standings.
How would this be scored in the good old U. S. of A.?
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8-5 in all rulesets.
Here's your out though. Even though a game is over when the winning run scores, you MUST let the individual play complete. You don't know, at the moment the apparent 6th run scores, that said runner did not miss a base elsewhere, seen by another umpire and not you, which will end up getting appealled. You don't stop motion on a play like this win the apparent winning run scores. After all 3 score and it is apparent there will be no appeal, the game is then over. At that point, 8 runs will have crossed the plate... thus 8-5.