When is a sacrifice bunt not a sacrifice?

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  • SuicideSqueeze
    Rookie
    • May 2016
    • 144
    #1

    When is a sacrifice bunt not a sacrifice?

    Playing as the Giants, Span leads off with a walk. Knowing my proclivity for grounding into double plays, I have Pence lay down a bunt. Not a good one, I pop it up and it lands between catcher and pitcher. Catcher fields it and throws out Pence at first, Denard advances to second. Pence is then credited with a ground out rather than a sacrifice. Is this correct?
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      Chaos Theory
      • Aug 2008
      • 8859
      #2
      Re: When is a sacrifice bunt not a sacrifice?

      Originally posted by SuicideSqueeze
      Playing as the Giants, Span leads off with a walk. Knowing my proclivity for grounding into double plays, I have Pence lay down a bunt. Not a good one, I pop it up and it lands between catcher and pitcher. Catcher fields it and throws out Pence at first, Denard advances to second. Pence is then credited with a ground out rather than a sacrifice. Is this correct?
      Appropriate user name is appropriate. Anyways, Pence should have been credited with a SAC Bunt.

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        • Nulap
          Rookie
          • Jul 2013
          • 196
          #3
          Re: When is a sacrifice bunt not a sacrifice?

          Originally posted by SuicideSqueeze
          Playing as the Giants, Span leads off with a walk. Knowing my proclivity for grounding into double plays, I have Pence lay down a bunt. Not a good one, I pop it up and it lands between catcher and pitcher. Catcher fields it and throws out Pence at first, Denard advances to second. Pence is then credited with a ground out rather than a sacrifice. Is this correct?
          Did you square around as the pitcher started his motion, or after the pitch left his hand? If a batter tries to bunt for a hit and it ends up being a sac, very rarely, the official scorer will record it as a fc or a groundout. I think the computer chooses to rule any bunt attempt after the ball leaves the pitchers hand as an attempted bunt for a hit rather than a sac.

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            • SuicideSqueeze
              Rookie
              • May 2016
              • 144
              #4
              Re: When is a sacrifice bunt not a sacrifice?

              Originally posted by Nulap
              Did you square around as the pitcher started his motion, or after the pitch left his hand? If a batter tries to bunt for a hit and it ends up being a sac, very rarely, the official scorer will record it as a fc or a groundout. I think the computer chooses to rule any bunt attempt after the ball leaves the pitchers hand as an attempted bunt for a hit rather than a sac.
              That may have been it. Usually I square up early, but I had some indecision with Pence. Hard not to let him swing away.

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