Scoring Question: Error vs. Hit

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Originally Posted by mbyron

You don't seem to understand what an 'error' is. It's a scorekeeping device to explain a baserunner who becomes one not through his skill but through the defense's lack thereof. No baserunner (as on a dropped foul), nothing to explain, no error.

Scorekeeping is about tracking offense. The defense misplayed a foul ball and lost an out. That's a mistake, no doubt, but not an error properly so called. Since no one can possibly score on this play, scorekeeping doesn't account for it.

The batter got a hit and his run, if he scores, will be earned (barring other errors). That he might have been put out is irrelevant from the standpoint of tracking offense. Let it go.

Don't look for a work-around: your software is right.

Error on the first baseman, hit to the batter, not a hit charged to the pitcher, unearned run if that runner scores. Those dropped fouls are a strange species. I would say no hit to the batter, but instead it is the only way a pitcher can pitch a perfect game with an error still in the boxscore.