Clipping:Scoring errors on throws from the outfield
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| Date | Saturday, August 9, 1890 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] A correspondent from the West wants to know whether I charge an error to an outfielder who throws the ball in home from deep outfield on the bound, the same as is down on a bound throw to a base player in the infield. The answer is, that it depends upon the nature of the play. In some cases I do, in others I do not. A bound throw to a base player in the infield is unquestionably an error, and if a failure to hold the bounding ball does not follow such a throw it is all the more to the base player's credit in handling the badly thrown ball. But in the case of a throw in from deep outfield the position is different, and the bound throw in a majority of instances does not excuse a failure to stop the ball as it does from an infield bound throw. An accurate throw in from the outfield to home base—except from short outfield—is a very difficult play, and when made successfully redounds to the credit of the outfielder just as much as a brilliant running catch does. But it must be borne in mind that a throw in from deep outfield is safer when the ball comes in on the first bound than when the risk is run of an overthrow in trying to send it in on the fly. Of course, if the ground is dry and hard and the ball rebounds very lively, the infielder is excused from an error in receiving the ball. But in cases of all throwing in from the outfield there should be plenty of backing up from the infield when the catcher strives to take the ball on the bound. If then a failure to stop the ball occurs down goes an error to the infield player who fails to back up properly. |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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