Video: How to Score Rare Plays in Baseball

This Season: Tailgating; New Year, New You; Tax Time

Learn how to keep track of crazy plays on your scorecard with expert tips and advice on baseball scoring in this free online baseball video clip.

Comments

Video Transcript

There's a couple of other things that happen very rarely in the game of baseball. And we'll definitely talk about those right now. These we'll call rare plays. They can be things like batter interference, which we've talked about earlier how to score it by writing INT, and what this means is the batter is going to be thrown out. This is a way to get out in the game of baseball, meaning that the batter has made contact with a fielder. Okay, now this is different than catcher's interference, in which the batter would actually get a hit. You still denote that with an INT, but you draw your line advancing from home to first base. This is when the batter swings the bat and makes contact with the catcher's glove, or the catcher gets in the way somehow of the batter so he does get on base. That's a little bit of an oddball play. A hit by pitch happens a little bit more often than it should. That means that the pitcher's actually thrown the ball and hit the batter. Sometimes that happens intentionally. Baseball likes to police itself, so sometimes when a batter has shown a pitcher up or insulted the pitcher in some way, then the pitcher in the next inning will hit him intentionally. Sometimes it happens accidentally, but you still denote that with an HBP, a hit by pitch. The other things that can count here are wild pitches, which is our WP. This is when the pitcher throws the ball wildly out of the catcher's range. This is not considered an error. It's denoted and tallied separately in baseball. You mark it with a WP and the pitcher will have that kept in his statistical category. Now, a passed ball is very similar to a wild pitch. That means that the catcher should have caught the call but didn't. The ball was thrown within his zone of catching ability, but it somehow got past him. Now that is counted as an error. That's an E2. And those are just a few of the rare plays in baseball. You won't see them often but it's good to know how to mark them if you seem them.

Follow eHow: Follow @eHow

How to Score Rare Plays in Baseball

Comments

Related Ads

Related Articles & Videos