Inning Score Results - when can you correct?

[AtlUmpSteve]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

I agree with all that. My point, though, without mixing up fruit - is that the scorebook, while labelled "official" is still merely a tool. The score is simply the number of runners who scored. If the book is wrong, fix the book. If what one side told the other was the score turns out to be incorrect, fix it. The score is THE SCORE.

Taken further to cover this situation....

If one team can legitimately show the "understood" score is incorrect, then it is incorrect, and the score is the correct score. You aren't correcting what IS the score, you are correcting what was mistakenly understood to be the score.

That said, if there is simply no justification to legitimately show the "understood" score is incorrect, then the "official" score is what was understood and agreed by all.

Or, you could make hash marks in the dirt each half inning to try to keep up.