Clipping:Scoring dropped third strikes
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| Date | Sunday, June 20, 1886 |
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| Text | According to official notice issued by President Wykoff to scorers, missed third strikes must not be placed in the error column, but scored as passed balls. The Philadelphia Times June 20, 1886 Mr. Wikoff’s latest instructions to the official scorers, “to charge a missed third strike as a passed ball and not as an error,” has caused more than general surprise. A missed third strike has been charged as an error ever since the first set of rules were promulgated and just where Mr. Wikoff gets his authority for this innovation is hard to conceive. The error rule... certainly does not give him the authority to make such a ridiculous ruling. It provides that wild pitches, bases on called balls, bases on the batsman being struck by a pitched ball, balks and passed balls shall not be included in the error column, but it certainly has nothing to say about a missed third strike. The latter certainly constitutes an error. It is a chance to put a batsman out, when the missed chance makes him a base-runner, and there is nothing in the rules which gives Mr. Wikoff the authority to make a batsman a base-runner on a passed ball. The rules provide that a batsman becomes a base-runner on a base on called balls, when he makes a fair hit, when three strikes have been declared by the umpire, or by a fielding error of his opponents. If a batsman is missed on a third strike and the ball is fielded to first base before he can reach there he certainly is out. If the beats the ball to first base he certainly becomes a base-runner on an error. The Philadelphia Times June 27, 1886 |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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