Batter hits a popup to the pitcher,the pitcher drops the ball because the third basemen also went for the ball and ran into the pitcher causing him to drop the ball,who gets the error?
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jimmyz
ANSWERS: 3
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Good Q. I didn't find anything here:http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/official_scorer_10.jsp dealing directly with the situation. I guess it's the official scorer's call.
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I would call the error on the third baseman because he was ultimately responsible for the batter reaching first.
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If the pitcher is waving the 3rd baseman off it very obviously and the 3rd baseman ignores the call, then I call it on the 3rd baseman because the pitcher did everything in his power to take the ball. If the pitcher isn't being decisive enough in the signalling then I call it on the pitcher, since he is the one who dropped it and should have stopped the 3rd baseman running into him. But it is really a judgement call, and the scorer could even call errors on both of them conceivably!
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