Clipping:Scoring stolen bases 4

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Date Wednesday, July 6, 1887
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[from Frank Brunell's column] ...few scorers are following the new rules as they should be followed, and that their chief error is in the item of stolen bases. The rules governing them leaves a man no chance to make errors, if he follows it inflexibly. But the expereinced scorer should use discretion and often now I score stolen bases on battery errors where, with the opening of the season, the players were robbed of them on half passed or dropped pitched balls. You remember that I wrote my observations on this point a month ago and told how, if the stolen base rule was inflexibly followed, the catchers would defeat its object. … If a runner gets a good start and is, in my opinion, entitled to a stolen base, I score him one, just as I use judgment on hard hit balls upon which seeming errors but really base hits are made. The rule must be amended after this season and the scorer given the same discretion on stolen bases as on base hits and errors. Meanwhile I am using the discretion anyhow and working on the lines that I think it was intended I should work.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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