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  • Is it a hit or an error? The official scorer decides!
  • Keeps track of all batting and pitching and fielding stats!
  • Tallies hits, runs, errors, putouts, RBI's, and you-name-it!
  • Applies Major League Baseball's rules and guidelines to . . .
  • . . . determine who gets credit or blame, and when a pitch. . .
  • . . . skitters back to the screen, he rules wild pitch or passed ball!

    • If it seems as if more "hits" than "errors" are awarded on balls that aren't fielded cleanly,
    it's because MLB encourages the official scorer to give the batter the benefit of the doubt.
    Score it as a hit if. . .

  • the fielder cannot make a play
  • exceptionally good fielding fails to result in a putout
  • the fielder cuts off a guy who could have made the play
  • the fielder deflects the ball away from such a guy
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