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Originally Posted by Cryomaniac
It's not called scored as a caught stealing either. It's scored as a "Runner out advancing", and it isn't in the game partly because there is no data on it.
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I suspect that there is also no data for how many times outfielders make spectacular catches going into the outfield wall and manage to hang on to the ball, although certainly that is a staple of OOTP*. I blame this wild pitch/safe at home argument partly on that darn play-by-play for getting people's hopes up that the throw to the pitcher at the plate might actually get there in time for once.
I'm sympathetic to the data argument, but it seems like there is plenty of fudge room in the game for something like this if the team ever wanted to code it to happen some miniscule, not-statistically-significant percentage of times. The basic fact is that something that happens in real life on the baseball diamond never happens in OOTP. It's a shame that whenever this gets brought up people on both sides seem so hardline about it. Regardless, I wouldn't expect it to ever happen in OOTP 13, so it's something that its advocates should be saving for their OOTP 14 suggestions.
*Although recently, I finally had an instance where the outfielder
didn't manage to hang on to the ball, which was nice to see, even though he was on my team.