Baseball Gripe
Posted by
tgirsch
From a Yahoo.com MLB box score:
M. Reynolds singled to left, E. Byrnes scored, C. Jackson to third, M. Reynolds to second on left fielder A. Soriano’s throwing error
I hate the way they do this.
Sorry, but this punctuation is crap. There’s no way to tell which of the events occurred on the single, and which of the events occurred on the throwing error. Haven’t they ever heard of a period or a semicolon?
Yeah, it is stupid. In the code that generates the pbp, the info is specified.
For example, this would be the code if the runner on second scored and the runner on first went to third on the single, and only the batter advanced because of an errant throw:
S7/L.2-H;1-3;B-2(E7/TH)
If all runners were going to advance only one base, but then they all got an extra base from the error, the code would be:
S7/L.2-H(E7/TH)(NR);1-3;B-2
The NR means no rbi, and if the run turned out the be unearned, you’d go back and stick a (UR) in there too.
However, the PBP reads the same for both codes. It’s silly. The error should appear where it is placed in the code. Or, at least the “no rbi” should pop up, which wuld give an indication of how many clean bases the lead runner was awarded, and thus how many those behind him would get too.
Comment 7/23/2007