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Originally Posted by jeffw3000
It is all about whether the official scorer feels the batter would not have tried for third unless the throw went home. If the scorer does not feel he would have went to third without a throw, then it is a double. It does not matter whether the throw gets cutoff or not, because when the runner goes to third, he thinks the throw is going home. In most cases it is pretty obvious whether the runner was heading for third regardless, but occasionally it is not as easy to tell.
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No, man, this is just not the case.
You’re coming from the perspective, it looks like, that the animation and the play by play are anything more than filler. I’m sorry, but that’s all they are. The game is not physics based and there is most certainly not an “official scorer”, no matter how the PBP might read. If it helps to think of it this way, consider the game engine more of a very complicated cards and dice game that churns out a result and then transmits that result to the front end so it can make it look fancy for humans.
In this case, the “cards” said “double with the runner advancing to third on the throw”. If the animation looks confusing and like it ought to be a triple, that’s a big but the fix isn’t to make it a triple. The fix is to make the animation look like it was a double with the runner advancing on a throw to the plate (or third, as the case may be). Likewise, if the play by play implies it ought to be scored a triple, that’s not a problem with the play result, it’s a problem with the play by play.