scoring question

[thetruth10]

I'm a big baseball and sports fan so i should probably know this, but check out this situation. I can't remember ever seeing it in a real game for obvious reasons.

2nd and 3rd, 1 out. i hit a fly to center. i've only been playing a few days so I am not too great with the baserunning controls at this time. Runner at 3rd holds to tag and the runner at 2nd goes half way down the line. Center fielder catches it and throws home and i hit runner advance. The ball beats my guy to the plate by a good 3 steps. just as the catcher is about to tag me, he inexplicably throws the ball to second to make the final out because the runner on 2nd never tagged. inning ends but i scored the run.

[Rebel10]

Re: scoring question

On a play like that, if your runner makes it home before the 2nd baseman is tagged out, you score the run, though the inning still ends.

If it were a force out, the run would not have counted.

Hypothetical situation:
You have runners on 3rd and 1st base, one out.
Slow rolling ball to the 2nd baseman, your guy on 3rd scampers home... but it's a double play (out at 2nd and out at 1st)... the Run does not count.

If the third out is not a forced out, then the runs scored before the play count... hence why sometimes you'll see a guy caught in a run down and the guy on 3rd will try to sneek home before the guy in the rundown is caught.

[Rebel10]

Re: scoring question

On a play like that, if your runner makes it home before the 2nd baseman is tagged out, you score the run, though the inning still ends.

If it were a force out, the run would not have counted.

Hypothetical situation:
You have runners on 3rd and 1st base, one out.
Slow rolling ball to the 2nd baseman, your guy on 3rd scampers home... but it's a double play (out at 2nd and out at 1st)... the Run does not count.

If the third out is not a forced out, then the runs scored before the play count... hence why sometimes you'll see a guy caught in a run down and the guy on 3rd will try to sneek home before the guy in the rundown is caught.

[thetruth10]

Re: scoring question

i understand your scenario, but i'd think not tagging on a fly ball would be a force out as well.

using some simlar logic, what stops a runner on third from just running home on a pop up, and then the run counts but the inning is over once the ball is caught and thrown to third.

[thetruth10]

Re: scoring question

i understand your scenario, but i'd think not tagging on a fly ball would be a force out as well.

using some simlar logic, what stops a runner on third from just running home on a pop up, and then the run counts but the inning is over once the ball is caught and thrown to third.

[Laloosh]

Re: scoring question

i understand your scenario, but i'd think not tagging on a fly ball would be a force out as well.

using some simlar logic, what stops a runner on third from just running home on a pop up, and then the run counts but the inning is over once the ball is caught and thrown to third.

That's not a force out -- the runners weren't required to try and advance. They're trying to advance "on their own volition."

[Laloosh]

Re: scoring question

i understand your scenario, but i'd think not tagging on a fly ball would be a force out as well.

using some simlar logic, what stops a runner on third from just running home on a pop up, and then the run counts but the inning is over once the ball is caught and thrown to third.

That's not a force out -- the runners weren't required to try and advance. They're trying to advance "on their own volition."

[thetruth10]

Re: scoring question

well regardless of whether the play was scored correctly, the AI really shouldn't pass up guaranteed outs at homeplate.

[thetruth10]

Re: scoring question

well regardless of whether the play was scored correctly, the AI really shouldn't pass up guaranteed outs at homeplate.