Official scoring oddity in Red Sox game last night (1 Viewer)

[Nigel]

Lowell was on first with no outs last night and took off for second in what was supposed to be a hit and run. The A’s pitched out and Kendall ran towards Lowell who stopped between first and second, I guess thinking he had a better chance in a rundown than he did continuing to second. Kendall ran all the way out towards Lowell, past the pitcher’s mound, and Lowell broke for second. Kendall made an awful throw into the dirt at second and Lowell was safe. Lowell did not advance to third on the errant throw. The official scoring was an error on Kendall and a caught stealing for Lowell. Error or not, how do you give a guy a CS when there was in fact no CS on the play? Does this happen often?

 

[posty]

From Rule 10.08... A stolen base shall be credited to a runner whenever he advances one base unaided by a hit, a putout, an error, a force out, a fielder's choice, a passed ball, a wild pitch or a balk, subject to the following:

(f) When in the scorer's judgment a runner attempting to steal is safe because of a muffed throw, do not credit a stolen base. Credit an assist to the fielder who made the throw; charge an error to the fielder who muffed the throw, and charge the runner with "caught stealing."

 

[Nigel]

From Rule 10.08... A stolen base shall be credited to a runner whenever he advances one base unaided by a hit, a putout, an error, a force out, a fielder's choice, a passed ball, a wild pitch or a balk, subject to the following:(f) When in the scorer's judgment a runner attempting to steal is safe because of a muffed throw, do not credit a stolen base. Credit an assist to the fielder who made the throw; charge an error to the fielder who muffed the throw, and charge the runner with "caught stealing."

This doesn't explicitly cover this case. You can't credit the thrower with an assist as it was a throwing error. the throw wasn't "muffed". And I don't see how you can credit the guy covering the bag, who never caught the ball, with an assist.

 

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The throw was in the dirt. He shorthopped it from 20ft out. Someone is getting an error. I think it should go to Kendall given the poor throw.

 

[Nigel]

' date='May 3 2007, 02:27 PM' post='6706684']The throw was in the dirt. He shorthopped it from 20ft out. Someone is getting an error. I think it should go to Kendall given the poor throw.

I realize that, but it's the CS for Lowell and a presumed assist to the guy covering the bag that had me confused.

 

[apalmer]

How about Rule 10.07(h):

(h) The official scorer shall charge a runner as "caught stealing" if such runner is put out, or would have been put out by errorless play, when such runner

(1) tries to steal;

No assist, but a CS