Clipping:Scoring base on balls as an error
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| Date | Sunday, June 27, 1886 |
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| Text | ... The scoring rules of the League and Association differ in some respects, but those adopted by the former come much nearer the requirements of the game. Since the organization of the League in 1876 there has been one rule which has remained unchanged. [N.B. The NL first adopted scoring rules in 1877.] It is section 7 of rule 70 of the playing rules which says: “An error should be given for each misplay which allows the striker or base runner to make one or more bases when perfect play would have insured his being put out.” This rule, however, has been misinterpreted for years. No one will deny that a base on balls should be charged as a first base on error and that the pitcher should be given an error in the error column and not in the summary. The League does this, but the Association unwisely charges bases on called balls and batsmen struck by a pitched balls as errors in the summary. What nonsense, when in computing the averages of pitcher these same errors must be charged against them, the same as a fumbled grounder or a dropped-thrown ball by an in-fielder. Wild pitches and passed balls, which allow a base runner to make one or more bases, should also go into the error column, but both organizations persist in placing them in the summary. The American Association has this year, however, added an amendment to this rule, and in Reach’s Guide is now reads as follows: “An error shall be given in the seventh column for each misplay which allows the striker or base runner to make one or more bases, when perfect play would have insured his being put out, except that wild pitches, bases on called balls, bases on the batsmen being struck by a pitched ball, balks and passed balls shall not be included in said column. |
| Source | The Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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