A Little Help If you will...

I know this is not an scorekeepers site, but If you could help solve some difference of opinions I would be appreciative..

In a game where a player hits a ball to right field cleanly, clearing the endfieled on a shot to the right fielder. The right fielder bobbles the ball and is unable to throw the runner out at first base. I have several parents believing this is not a hit, but an error (statistic/scoring wise). It was not a pop fly, or touched by anyone in the infield first. Just because the right fileder might have thrown her out or not, I believe it should still be a single...Some parents disagree..
What is the answer if you will...

Thank you for the help
Palmer

I have several parents believing this is not a hit, but an error (statistic/scoring wise).

That wouldn't be the pitchers' parents would it? IMO, unless it was an absolute conclusion that a normal effort without a bobble would have resulted in an out, that is a base hit.

This is totally the scorekeeper's decision (and not the parents! :) ). What you have to ask yourself is --- with normal effort from the RF, would this have been an out. If you say no, it's a hit. If you say yes, it's an error.

If you say "Maybe", I'd err on the side of calling it a hit, not an error.

You'll see this even in smallball with an infielder occasionally ... say a dribbler to thirdbase. F5 charges, barehands, and bobbles. With "normal" effort, the scorekeeper rules there was not a likely out, so this is an infield hit, and not an error on F5.