Thread: Hit or error?
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Old Tue Apr 24, 2007, 10:26am
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Originally Posted by argodad
I disagree mcrowder. If the BR should have / could have been retired by a routine throw to first, but the fielder made the choice (however inappropriate) to make a play on another runner, it's a FC -- even if they didn't commit an error or get an out.

Now of course, if it's the "HS mom scorer" all bets are off. The batter gets a hit, the runner gets a stolen base, and if we can find an RBI, we'll throw that in there, too.
Throwing to a base where no play is developing is not making a play on another runner. This is no different from a fielder tossing it to another fielder so that other fielder can throw to first. This one is a hit.

If the fielder had thrown to 3rd, it would be an FC.
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