BZ 3250: Game ending hits

[TwoThirtyTwo]

I just noticed looking at a box score that with the bases loaded my catcher hit a triple, but he had just 1 RBI in the game. Checked the game log and he hit the triple in the bottom of the 9th in a tied game. The bases were loaded, his triple should only be counted as a single because it only took 1 run to end the game.

[Tony M]

I'm trying to find it in the rules, but I'm sure the walk-off rules have changed from that in that if your batter had hit a home-run he would have been required to round the bases and not stop the number of bases back that the furthest advance runner was from home.

[tysok]

Originally Posted by Tony M

I'm trying to find it in the rules, but I'm sure the walk-off rules have changed from that in that if your batter had hit a home-run he would have been required to round the bases and not stop the number of bases back that the furthest advance runner was from home.

I hadn't heard about any rules changes like that.
If it's a HR the batter gets credit for wherever he stopped. He has to completely round the bases and he would get credit for all the RBIs and the HR. If he stopped at first he would only get credit for a single and 1 RBI, or stop at second he would get a double and 2 RBI, etc. --- Although in earlier times a HR would only count for the number of bases needed to get the winning run home. Don't remember when that was changed, but in this case (under those old rules) a HR would have only counted for a single even the batter rounded the bases completely.

In this case once the guy hits the ball and the run scores the game is over. The defense would have given up, not tried to get the ball back in to keep him from getting a triple. Appears that the game scored it right, in that 1 RBI was awarded and 1 run scored... but scored it wrong in that the batter shouldn't have only gotten credit for a single.

It needs to go 1 way or the other... preferrably the correct way. It either needs to do it incorrectly and the catcher gets a triple and 3 RBIs, or do it correctly and the catcher gets a single and 1 RBI. --- Not halfway like the post, where the catcher got a triple and 1 RBI.

[Nutlaw]

Did you log this, then, tysok?

[tysok]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

Did you log this, then, tysok?

No, I can't get into Bugzilla for some reason.

[OldFatGuy]

Rule 10.06 (f)

(f) Subject to the provisions of Rule 10.06(g), when a batter ends a game with a safe hit that drives in as many runs as are necessary to put his team in the lead, the official scorer shall credit such batter with only as many bases on his hit as are advanced by the runner who scores the winning run, and then only if the batter runs out his hit for as many bases as are advanced by the runner who scores the winning run.

Rule 10.06 (g)

(g) When the batter ends a game with a home run hit out of the playing field, the batter and any runners on base are entitled to score.

[Nutlaw]

I have logged this as BZ 3250. Thanks for reporting it.