Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!sab From: sab@houti.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Still not reaching base Message-ID: <309@houti.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 15:47:20 EDT Article-I.D.: houti.309 Posted: Mon Jun 20 15:47:20 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jun-83 02:11:00 EDT Lines: 30 I'm not too satisfied with most of the other ways for a batter to reach first base. The six I offered were completely disjoint, and most of the others overlap somehow with at least one of these. Exception: Fielder's interference is a good one that I missed, provided that it is actually scored "officially" as such, and not as an error or a hit. A dropped third strike is either an error on the catcher or pitcher, depending on whether it was a passed ball or a wild pitch. Concerning a balk without runners on base, what about a catcher's balk? If the catcher leaves his "box" before the pitch is thrown, it is a balk. But this is an error. As for reaching first when a runner is hit by the ball, someone noted that this is scored a hit. This may be right, but I think that the official scorer decides whether it should be a hit or a fielder's choice. Would the person who originally posted the question please reappear with the answers you were looking for (with justification). Scott