Hit by pitch, without contact?

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by chapmaja

I think this was a scorer trying to go on the fly with a situation nobody has even seen. I've never seen this, nor have I ever heard of this happening at any level, let alone the highest level of college softball.

Puhleeze. I'd believe that if this was a Mom keeping score at her son's LL Tee Ball game.

The scorekeeper is required to keep an accurate account of the game. Putting down a HBP when that never happened is derelict in the scorekeeper's duties. Someone given the responsibility for keeping the official scoring of an NCAA Super-Regional is going to be very knowledgeable of the rules. Likely, he/she would annotate "B*" for the second ball, and then "*-10.16 Violation" somewhere on the scoresheet to clarify this was not an ordinary pitch out of the strike zone.