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Friday, August 05, 2011
When Official Scorers Attack!
Don’t worry, David Ortiz: WPA, WPA/LI, and RE24 have got your back.
Asked why he changed his scoring, Scoggins explained: “About two innings later, the Cleveland PR guy came over and told me their pitching coach had called him and told him that [Red Sox third base coach Tim] Bogar had put up a stop sign on Youkilis. I told him I didn’t see the stop sign and I had looked immediately to see what the coach was doing and he’d waved him home. He said, ‘Well, it’s on tape somewhere.’
“So, I went back and reviewed the NESN tape. On their replay, sure enough, you could see Bogar throw up his hands to stop Youkilis until the ball was bobbled by Kearns, and then he waved him home. It was only an instant. He never really got his hands up all the way. But clearly, his intent was to stop Youkilis, even though there were two outs, until he saw the bobble.
“At that, I felt I could not give Ortiz two RBIs on that when the intent was to stop Youilis at third.”
Which is a priceless explanation. He says nothing at all about what Youkilis was actually doing. Did Youk slow down, and only resumed running when signaled because of the bobble?
Two runs scored following a pitcher miscue (gave up a hit) and a fielder miscue (bobble). Who cares really other than that? He should have an RBI on Youk simply because the hitter beat the defense (pitcher AND fielder).
In my view, every run where the at bat ends should be credited to the batter.
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