ITB wrong runner

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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn

Really? That makes sense. You think it's more likely they would be unable to tell you who is up next than answering correctly who is up before that person. That makes lots of sense.

Well, knowing who is up means you had to correctly capture the end of the last inning and potentially know the rules about who follows who. Maybe the last batter of the inning was out of order and the scorebook didn't notice. Maybe it was a caught stealing and she thinks the next batter is due up. But I think it would take a special blend of not able to keep the scorebook correctly to not be able to tell me who is up before a particular player.

But perhaps you just mean that it's harder to tell me who is before the person who is up than it is to tell me who is up. That I'll grant you. But once I find out who is up, which both you and I do by talking to the scorekeeper, the rest of it seems easy enough for the scorekeeper to do.