Yesterday at Fenway Park , Coco Crisp has a ball bounce of the heel of his glove; The batter gets a double wh

Question

Why isn't that an error ?

He actually outran the ball which is why it hit the heel ,one step slower and it have landed in the web.

Answer 1

The rule for an error is a misplayed ball that would have been ordinarily handled by an ordinary player. So any efforts, such as diving, sliding, running extreme distances that, in the mind of the official scorer, are extraordinary but required to complete the play would make the play a hit if they don't successfully make the play.

Granted, many home team scorers avoid any but the most obvious errors to avoid damaging fielding percentages, but this is the rule they use to justify those decisions.

Answer 2

home town scorers are famous for giving their players breaks on fielding, it's great for the player and the teams fielding percentage but just kills the pitchers, if it's an error and the guy scores later the run is unearned but when the friendly scorer calls it a hit when that run scores it's earned, this is a pet peeve of mine too.

Answer 3

The scorer will typically ask this question, would the average player at his position have been able to field it without diving/jumping, etc. If the answer's no, it's a hit.

Answer 4

i dont know why it should be though