Home book is official!

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by mdntranger

We don't have scorekeepers at our facilities. What I've done is after each half-inning ask the batting team how many runs they've earned. I then announce that to the other team and consider it 'official' if nobody questions it. Should they question it later, I ask the teams to get the books together and let me know...otherwise, the score reported is the score that stays.

I don't care about the score. If somewhere along the way it is discovered there is a difference of opinion, I tell the teams to get the books together and stay out of it as best as I can.

[bigsig]

I had this happen a few years ago and learned my lesson. I now keep a little score card and verify score with both teams every half inning also. Easy to do and saves a lot of problems later.

[NDblue]

Here, the umpire is the official scorekeeper so every 1/2 inning, I ask the team that just batted what they scored (if I lost track) and let the other team know what I got. If they question it then, we get it straight and if any questions are asked about it later, I try to get it straightened out but sometimes books are kept correctly so my score card is the official "book".

[bniu]

Originally Posted by bigsig

I had this happen a few years ago and learned my lesson. I now keep a little score card and verify score with both teams every half inning also. Easy to do and saves a lot of problems later.

me too, in my slowpitch league, they had the umpires keep score, and a trick i learned was to use the "inning" wheel on the indicator to keep track of runs scored and then record that between innings. even though NFHS doesn't require it, I still like to keep track of the score myself because it's useful in late innings where we may have a winning run situation (can be earlier due to mercy rule), nice to know where potential plays will be...

[Andy]

Originally Posted by bigsig

I had this happen a few years ago and learned my lesson. I now keep a little score card and verify score with both teams every half inning also. Easy to do and saves a lot of problems later.

When anybody asks me what the score is, I tell 'em....

Hey, I have a hard enough time with balls and strikes, I don't keep score!

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

I don't care about the score. If somewhere along the way it is discovered there is a difference of opinion, I tell the teams to get the books together and stay out of it as best as I can.

Similar to:
"If I had any suspicion of inaccuracy, I would ask that scorer to compare with the other book and let me know any difference, right away ( 1st inning in OP). "