MLB Scoring Changes

From the @Royals at @Mariners If Cole Young was allowed to have his phone in his back pocket, he would have appealed this while standing on first base. This is 106.6 and the hop is horrible, it’s head high. This would have been an instantaneous hit call for me. This will 100% get changed.

@BlueOxPictures @Royals @Mariners Not with the new rule in that the runner can’t go out of his way to initiate the contact, which is what they ruled

@ScoringChanges @Royals @Mariners Obviously this has nothing to do with scoring the play, but Arozarena was looking for an obstruction call, and I think he was absolutely right.

🚨CHANGE 68🚨 5/2 @Royals at @Mariners B5 Randy Arozarena is now charged with a caught stealing. Additionally, the play went 2-3-6. The box incorrectly had 2-3-4 Change 4 for SEA #FountainsUp #TridentsUp

INCORRECT!!! While not the last time it happened, on May 17, 1975, Carlos May went 2-for-4 for the Chicago White Sox over the Cleveland Indians while wearing May 17 on his jersey. The best this is Carlos May was born on May 17, so he wasn't just wearing the date, he was wearing his birthday! Thank you to Chris Creamer's Sportslogos.net Instagram page for the graphic.

@aec4444 @SoftballPortal @NCAA YOU SHOULD SEE MY DMs ...

@SoftballPortal @NCAA Can we also have official scorers at the games who know how to score? The scoring is so inconsistent between sites. Hits are marked Errors, Errors are marked hits, fielders choices are marked hits. HBP are marked BB, the list goes on and on.

Dear @NCAA please review the following before the start of postseason play.📘 Thank you for your attention to this matter.🥎

Also, Lee May, wearing May 14 for the Kansas City Royals pinch hit on May 14, 1980 and hit a single in a 6-3 loss to the Texas Rangers. BUT ... the most recent example is on May 7, 1983 when Milt May went 1-for-4 in a 5-1 win over Pittsburgh.

This is from today's @Braves at @Rockies game. I'm sure the scorer was questioned on it. The win clearly should have gone to Didier Fuentes, who entered a 6-4 game with two of Bummer's men on (2nd and 3rd) and induced a sac fly and a 4-3 ground out to maintain the lead. Here is what the book says about this. It's rule 9.17(b): "Rule 9.17(b) Comment: It is the intent of Rule 9.17(b) that a relief pitcher pitch at least one complete inning or pitch when a crucial out is made, within the context of the game (including the score), in order to be credited as the winning pitcher. If the first relief pitcher pitches effectively, the Official Scorer should not presumptively credit that pitcher with the win, because the rule requires that the win be credited to the pitcher who was the most effective, and a subsequent relief pitcher may have been most effective. The Official Scorer, in determining which relief pitcher was the most effective, should consider the number of runs, earned runs and base runners given up by each relief pitcher and the context of the game at the time of each relief pitcher’s appearance. If two or more relief pitchers were similarly effective, the Official Scorer should give the presumption to the earlier pitcher as the winning pitcher." Fuentes didn't pitch a full inning, but he clearly pitched when the crucial out was made. There is no way I would have gone with Bummer here. He might have been as shocked as anyone.

With this change, @Mariners P Andres Munoz had his ERA rise from 5.54 to 6.23. #FountainsUp #TridentsUp

ANALYSIS: A play we talked about last night, but Lane Thomas singled, went to second on a balk, and he was always scoring on this hit. The Julio Rodriguez error allowed Jac Caglianone to go to third, but it had nothing to do with the run. After games (this is from experience), the official scorer takes the box score they have, and they compare it to what is online in a tab called "OS Scoresheet", or, to box score in the backend of the MLB system (I prefer the latter) That check should discover the missing earned run, a missing assist, whatever. Support is also supposed to check all earned and unearned runs before OKing the final boxscore as well. While some things can slip through the cracks, an earned/unearned run that was clearly a mistake, should have been caught by one of those three people.

🚨CHANGE 69🚨 5/2 @Royals at @Mariners T9 the run scored by Lane Thomas has been changed to earned against Andres Munoz Change 5 for SEA #FountainsUp #TridentsUp

With this change, @Mariners Randy Arozarena now has one caught stealing, not zero. @Royals SS Bobby Witt, Jr. now has 51 putouts, not 50, and 2B Michael Massey now has 29 putouts, not 30 (27 at 2B, not 28). #FountainsUp #TridentsUp

ANALYSIS: Not the change with Cole Young up most folks are looking for (his rocket is in the continuation of this at bat to start the sixth). Here, Arozarena forgets the outs, but because he is going to second base, by rule this has to be ruled a caught stealing. The correction of the out sequence shouldn't happen as it should have been caught by someone in the postgame check, but that is all a part of the same correction.

With this change, @Pirates Marcell Ozuna now has three doubles, not four. #ATOBTTR #LetsGoBucs

ANALYSIS: You can see on this high-home angle that Ozuna clearly stops, and reads the throw going over the cutoff man, and taking second on that, making this an advance on the throw and not on the hit.

🚨CHANGE 67🚨 5/2 @Reds at @Pirates B8 Marcell Ozuna now has a single, advance to 2nd on the throw. The play was originally scored a double. Change 3 for PIT *NOTE: MLB listed this backwards online. I have it correct above. #ATOBTTR #LetsGoBucs

@ph_days13821 @EliasSports Yeah a balk doesn't have any impoact on earned/unearned runs, as it's a measure of pitching, and ERA is a measure of pitching.

@ScoringChanges @EliasSports or i wouldnt say counts as E1, i would say counts the same for purposes of earned unearned.

Wow, great catch. This is absolutely incorrect and I’m sure @EliasSports will fix this, but the run scored again Muñoz is 100% earned, because the scorer credited the RBI. You can see on the high home that the runner never stopped and was going the whole time, and the third base coach was sending before the error. My guess is the stringer hit the wrong button. The issue is after every game, the supper person is supposed to check earned runs, and the scorer checks the box they keep to make sure all the numbers are correct, so this should have been caught. This will get fixed most likely today.

@MattieBo13 When this happens, it counts as a game played, and the player is done and used for that game. I’ve always wondered what he tells his wife or parents? “Did you play?” “Kinda?”

@ScoringChanges Not a change but a question. In Astros-Red Sox Boston sends Monasterio out to pinch hit for Meyer. Before any pitch is thrown to Monasterio, Houston takes a mound visit and replaces their pitcher.