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What’s the Score?
With Official Scoring Rules for All Divisions of Little League Baseball® and Little League Softball®
THE OFFICIAL SCORER
Being the official scorer involves many responsibilities in reports of Little League Baseball/Softball games. Like umpires, scorers cannot satisfy everybody—sometimes not even themselves. Afterthoughts sometime contradict original judgments.
The scorer must realize that he or she is passing judgment on the feats and the failures of players of school age, and keep in mind the necessity of encouraging the players. The Little League scorer has to use good and impartial judgment, even if he or she is affiliated with one of the teams in some way.
Official scoring, the basis of all records in baseball and softball, was originally devised by Pop Henry Chadwick before the Civil War. A reporter for the old “New York Clipper”, Chadwick invented a system of keeping track of a ball game by cryptic signs, and instituted the system of assembling the data of games and season.
Scoring is a means of compiling a record of what happens during the progress of a baseball game. It is an engaging pastime that makes spectator involvement with a ball game much more enjoyable. For people involved in Little League—parents, managers, coaches, fans, as well as Official Scorekeepers—it is a must. A system of basic symbols, letters and numbers substitute for a written account of the action and make possible graphic recap through the running play-by-play record of the game.
The most commonly used symbols for scoring can be found in the Official Little League Scorebook, available at your nearest Regional Center. The official rules for scoring follow this introductory section.
Learning to score is not difficult, although there are many variations in the individual adaptation. Each scorer usually develops a style and technique by experience. But overall, the object is to set down, either in detail or in rough form, the sequence of events and how they relate to the winning, or the losing, of the game.
Little League games are recorded by a person designated as Official Scorer, as well as by team scorers, newspapermen, radio and television announcers and often, by spectators. However, as the title implies, the Official Scorer keeps the Official Record for the league. A scorer must never make a decision that conflicts with the Official Rules and Regulations of Little League Baseball/Softball or with an umpire’s decision.
Because young boys and girls are involved in Little League games, scoring requires mature and sound judgment, consistent with the ideals of the program. As a rule of thumb, Little League scorers use common sense and some latitude in judgment without sacrificing the basic principles of scoring.
The scorer is the official designee of the League President and his/her decisions in entering the game record in the book must be recognized as essential to the league.
ACCURACY
A system of cross-checking your records is of prime importance. It enables you to keep a close tab of the record in your scorebook.
Knowing the score is more important than distinguishing between hits and errors. But it is still important to prove out each inning as you go along, totaling runs, hits and errors at the bottom of each inning. Double check to make sure and don’t hesitate to consult the umpire when it is necessary. The umpire decides whether runs count.
Accuracy is important, but you may make mistakes. If you find that you scored a play incorrectly in violation of the rules, correct your mistake before finalizing your totals. GETTING IT RIGHT should be the creed of every scorekeeper.
Be sure that you have correctly spelled the names of each player. First names are important, too. If your score is to be used for newspaper or other published accounts of the game, correct spelling and complete names are essential. Don’t guess. Get it right. Never give out a box score without carefully checking everything.
The formula for double-checking your totals is: At bats plus base on balls, plus hit batters, plus sacrifices, plus number of batters reaching first on interference by catcher must equal the following: runs, plus left on bases, plus opponents’ putouts.
POSITION NUMBERS
The most widely accepted system of numbering players by position is as follows:
Pitcher 1; Catcher 2; First Baseman 3; Second Baseman 4; Third Baseman 5; Shortstop 6; Left Fielder 7; Center Fielder 8; Right Fielder 9.
PITCHING RECORDS
The necessity to maintain totals of number of innings pitched during a calendar week requires that sufficient space to record these situations is provided in the score page. This is one of the several features of the Official Little League Scorebook. Remember, delivery of a single pitch in an inning constitutes having pitched that entire inning for the purposes of pitching eligibility records.
Another important factor is knowing the difference between an ineligible pitcher/player, and batting out of order. An Official Scorer should ALWAYS inform the umpire if an ineligible pitcher or player is about to enter a game, thus preventing a protest. However, the Official Scorer should NEVER inform anyone if a player is about to bat out of order. (It’s the defensive team’s job to watch for that.)
The Official Scorer should know before a game begins if there are any players on either roster who are ineligible to pitch, or if they may be limited to a certain number of innings. Note: The manager is ultimately responsible for preventing an ineligible player/pitcher from entering the game.
PLAYING RULES
Because judgment is often a factor in recording the relative values of what happens on the field of play, Official Scorers should be familiar with Playing Rules as well as with the basic guidelines of scoring.
Scorekeepers are not incapable of making mistakes. However, once a judgment decision is made by a scorekeeper and entered, it must stand. Erasures in a scorebook, other than to correct a misused symbol, expose the scorekeeper to deserved criticism.
For those who would like to touch every base in the techniques of scoring, many complete manuals on the subject are available from a variety of sources. A good one may be your local sporting goods dealer or general book store. However, for the purposes of Little League and recognizing that scoring is a volunteer effort, often by those who do not have the experience, the following are capsule guidelines that should be helpful.
Base Hit – usually, a base hit is scored when the batter reaches first (or any succeeding base) safely on a fair ball that strikes the ground or a fence or goes over it before being gathered in by a fielder. It is a base hit when the batter reaches base safely on a ball hit with such force, or so slowly, that any fielder attempting to make a play has no opportunity to do so. This also applies to a ball which takes an unusual bounce and makes it impossible for a fielder to cleanly handle. Always score a hit when good fielding of a ball does not result in a putout.
Force Out – However puzzling to some parents and spectators, not every batted ball on which the player reaches base safely can be credited as a base hit. For example, when another runner is forced out as the result of a batted ball, no hit is scored. Nor is it a hit if a fielder fails in attempting to retire a preceding runner and in the judgment of the scorer, the batter-runner could have been retired at first base. In both cases, the batter-runner is credited with reaching base on a fielder’s choice.
It is a prime rule of scoring that some indication be made in the book to account for every movement of batter-runner or preceding runners.
Value of a Base Hit – The scorer’s judgment is most critical in determining the value of a base hit. Usually a one-base hit (or single) is credited if the batter-runner stops at first base; a two-base hit (double) if the runner stops at second and a three-base hit (triple) if he/she stops at third.
With runners advancing as the result of a safe hit and the batter advancing to second base as the result of the defensive making a play in an attempt to put out one of these runners, the scorer must determine whether the batter is entitled to a two-base hit or whether he or she advanced to second base on the option by the defensive team. In this event, the scorer would indicate that the batter reached base on a one-base hit, but advanced to second on a fielder’s choice.
There are many situations in which the scorer must use judgment in evaluating a base hit. Example: A batter/runner over slides second base and is tagged out before getting back to the base. The runner is credited with a one-base hit because it was the last base reached safely. However, if the runner runs past second base after reaching it on his/her feet and is put out attempting to get back, credit a two-base hit.
A situation which comes up often in Little League is that of a batter-runner missing a base after having made a safe hit. If he/she is called out for missing any base, he/she is credited only with a hit equivalent to the last base he/she did touch. If he/she misses first base and is called out, no hit is scored, but a time at bat shall be charged.
When a base hit ends the game by driving home the winning run in the last half of the final inning, the batter gets credit only for as many bases (one-base, two-base, three-base hit) as necessary to advance the runner who scores the winning run. However the batter-runner must run out the hit for as many bases as are advanced by the runner who scores the winning run. In scoring, credit only the winning run in the final score, except in the case where the batter hits a home run. Then all runs shall count. A home run counts for four bases at any stage of the game and in any situation on the bases.
Sacrifices -- Scorers sometimes experience difficulty in determining how to record the action of the batter in trying to advance a base-runner. As the term indicates, the batter is deliberately sacrificing his/her chance to hit safely by bunting the ball in order to force the defensive team to make a usually easy play on him/her at first base for an out, thus advancing a preceding runner into a more favorable position. Even if, as the result of an error, the batter is not put out at first base, but his/her action enables the preceding runner to advance, he/she gets credit for a sacrifice (not a base hit) and no time at bat is charged.
It is NOT a sacrifice if the preceding runner is put out during this sequence of the defensive team’s action in playing the bunt. The batter is charged with a time at bat and if he/she reaches first base safely, the action is recorded as a fielder’s choice.
It is also a sacrifice if with less than two out, the batter hits a fly ball or line drive which is caught in the outfield, and a run scores. (See Scoring Rule 10.09.)
Assists – Action of defensive players in throwing, catching and retiring batters or base runners should be recorded.
An assist is the action of a defensive player in throwing or deflecting a batted or thrown ball so that a putout is accomplished. Scorers don’t have to rely on judgment in the matter of assists. The procedure is clearly defined in the action, but like most other aspects of rules interpretation, there are many situations that can come up.
Generally, credit an assist when continuous throwing action by the defensive team results in a putout. The most important exception to remember is that with any interruption in the continuity of the play as the result of an error, even though a putout may later result, removes credit for assists. From the point of the error it is a new play and the player who makes the error is not credited with an assist, until he or she takes part in the new play leading to a putout.
Errors – In Little League, scorers should favor the batter if a decision of judgment is on the border line of hit versus error. However, this is not to say that obvious errors should be glossed over. Generally, when a defensive player (through ordinary effort) muffs a batted or thrown ball, throws the ball widely or drops the ball, the error must be charged. Being able to recognize the difference between a hit and error is often the toughest job for a scorekeeper—and the most controversial.
The key is to determine the value of ordinary effort by a fielder. If the fielder should have made the play, with ordinary effort, and failed to, an error may be charged. However, in the case of the fielder, for example, who has to range far from his/her usual position to make a play, and fails to make the play (even if he/she touches the batted ball), no error should be charged.
Remember that Little Leaguers are not professionals. The benefit of the doubt should always go to the batter. If a fielder’s play on a batted ball is affected by some outside force, such as bright sunlight, a collision with a fence or another fielder, or a “bad hop”, it should be scored a hit if the fielder fails to make the play.
Errors of omission, such as indecision to throw the ball, etc., cannot be charged. But in the case of a baseman, for example, who neglects to have his/her foot on the base when he/she receives a throw has committed a chargeable error.
Some misplays by the catcher or pitcher—passed balls or wild pitches—are recorded in the scorebook as such and no error is charged.
Winning and losing pitcher – The starting pitcher cannot be credited with the victory, regardless of his/her effectiveness, unless he or she pitched three full innings. With that in mind, the winning pitcher is generally the person on the winning team who was the pitcher of record at the time the winning team took the lead and maintained it or the remainder of the game. If the starting pitcher leaves the game with a lead before three innings, and the lead is maintained, that starting pitcher cannot qualify for the victory. In that event, the Official Scorer determines the winning pitcher based on his/her judgment as to which of the relief pitchers was most effective.
The losing pitcher is generally the pitcher of record on the losing team when the winning team took the lead and maintained the lead for the remainder of the game.
Individual exceptions are listed in Rule 10.19.
In General – This booklet is intended as general guideline to some of the basic elements of scoring. Each of the previous segments could be further embellished to cover all situations that might come up in a game. As noted, there are authoritative manuals on the subject for a thorough review of scoring rules, but we have sampled only a few basic situations in order to avoid a lengthy book, and to give first-time scorers a basic understanding of the rules.
The best way to learn is to jump right in. Watch several experienced scorekeepers, and keep a parallel book, to see what system is best for you. Watching professional ball games on television, and paying attention to the scoring decisions, is also helpful.
As you become more familiar with the rules and gain experience, you will become more expert. It is not a chore lightly assumed, but it can be fun and will add a new dimension to your enjoyment of baseball and softball.
OFFICIAL SCORING RULES INDEX
Assists, 10.11
Base hits, 10.05, 10.06, 10.07
Base on balls, 10.16
Box scores, 10.02, 10.03
Caught stealing, 10.08
Determine value of hits, 10.07
Earned runs, 10.18
Errors, 10.13, 10.14
Official scorer, 10.01
Passed balls, 10.15
Percentages, how determined, 10.21
Pitch count, 10.22
Putouts, 10.10
Runs, batted in, 10.04
Sacrifices, 10.09
Saves for relief pitchers, 10.20
Stolen bases, 10.08
Strikeouts, 10.17
Wild pitches, 10.15
Winning-losing pitcher, 10.19
10.01 -
(a) The league president shall appoint an Official Scorer for each league. The scorer shall have sole authority to make all decisions involving judgment, such as whether a batter’s advance to first base is the result of a hit or an error. The scorer shall communicate such decisions to the press by hand signals or over the loudspeaker system and shall advise the announcer of such decisions if requested. In the event of a question of eligibility of a pitcher, the record of the Official Scorer shall be deemed official.
(b) (1) To achieve uniformity in keeping the records, the scorer shall conform strictly to the Scoring Rules. The scorer shall have authority to rule on any point not specifically covered in these rules.
(2) If the teams change sides before three are put out, the scorer shall immediately inform the umpire of the mistake.
(3) If the game is protested or play suspended, the scorer shall make note of the exact situation at the time of the protest or suspension, including the score, the number of outs, the position of any runners, and the ball and strike count on the batter.
(4) The scorer shall not make any decision conflicting with the Official Playing rules, or with an umpire’s decision.
(5) The scorer shall not call attention to the umpire or of any member of either team to the fact that a player is batting out of turn.
(c) The scorer is an official representative of the league, and is entitled to the respect and dignity of the office.
10.02 – The official score report shall make provisions for entering the information listed below, in a form convenient for the compilation of permanent statistical records.
(a) The following records for each batter and runner:
(1) Number of times they batted, except that no time at bat shall be charged against a player when –
(i) the player hits a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly;
(ii) the player is awarded first base on four called balls;
(iii) the player is hit by a pitched ball
(iv) the player is awarded first base because of interference or obstruction.
(2) Number of runs scored
(3) Number of safe hits
(4) Number of runs batted in
(5) Two-base hits
(6) Three-base hits
(7) Home runs
(8) Total bases on safe hits
(9) Stolen bases
(10) Sacrifice bunts
(11) Sacrifice flies
(12) Total number of bases on balls
(13) Separate listing of any intentional bases on balls
(14) Number of times hit by a pitched ball
(15) Number of times awarded first base for interference or obstruction
(16) Strikeouts
(b) The following records for each fielder:
(1) Number of putouts
(2) Number of assists
(3) Number of errors
(4) Number of double plays participated in
(5) Number of triple plays participated in
(c) The following records for each pitcher:
(1) Number of innings pitched
NOTE: In computing innings pitched for statistical purposes, count each putout as one-third of an inning. If a starting pitcher is replaced with one out in an inning, credit that pitcher 1/3 inning. If a relief pitcher retires two batters and is replaced, credit that pitcher with 2/3 inning pitched. For pitching eligibility purposes, charge a full inning pitched if the pitcher delivers one or more pitches to a batter in that inning.
(2) Total number of batters faced
(3) Number of batters officially at bat against pitcher, computed according to 10.02 (a) (1)
(4) Number of hits allowed
(5) Number of runs allowed
(6) Number of earned runs allowed
(7) Number of home runs allowed
(8) Number of sacrifice hits allowed
(9) Number of sacrifice hits allowed
(10) Total number of bases on balls allowed
(11) Separate listing of any intentional bases on balls allowed
(12) Number of batters hit by pitched balls
(13) Number of strikeouts
(14) Number of wild pitches
(15) Number of balks (Junior/Senior baseball only)
(16) Number of pitches thrown by each pitcher (baseball only)
(d) The following informational data:
(1) Name of winning pitcher
(2) Name of losing pitcher
(3) Names of starting pitcher and the finishing pitcher for each team
(e) Number of passed balls allowed by each catcher
(f) Names of players participating in double plays and triple plays. EXAMPLE: (1) Double plays – Jones and Smith; (2) Triple plays – Jones, Roberts, and Smith
(g) Number of runners left on base by each team. This total shall include a batter-runner whose batted ball results in another runner being retired for the third out.
(h) Names of batters who hit home runs with bases full
(i) Names of batters who ground into force double plays and reverse force double plays.
(j) Names of runners caught stealing.
(k) Number of outs when winning run scored, if game is won in last half-inning.
(l) The score by innings for each team.
(m) Names of umpires, listed in this order (1) plate umpire, (2) first base umpire; (3) second base umpire; (4) third base umpire; (5) left field foul-line umpire; (6) right field foul-line umpire.
(n) Time required to play the game, with delays for weather or light failure deducted.
10.03 –
(a) The Official Scorer shall list each player’s name and fielding position or positions in the order in which the player batted, or would have batted if the game ends before the player gets to bat. NOTE: When a player does not exchange positions with another fielder, but is merely placed in a different spot for a particular batter, do not list this as a new position.
(b) Any player who enters the game as a substitute batter or substitute runner, whether or not continuing in the game thereafter shall be identified in the batting order by a special symbol which shall refer to a separate record of substitute batters and runners. Lower case letters are recommended as symbols for substitute batters, and numerals for substitute runners. The record of substitute batters shall describe what the substitute batter did.
EXAMPLES: A-Singled for in the third inning; B-Flied out for in the sixth inning; C-Forced for in the seventh inning; D-Grounded out for in the ninth inning; E-Ran for in the ninth inning.
HOW TO PROVE A BOX SCORE
(c) A box score is on balance (or proved) when the total of team’s time at bat, bases on balls received, hit batters, sacrifice bunts, sacrifice flies and batters awarded first base because of interference or obstruction, equals the total of that team’s runs, players left on base and the opposing team’s putouts.
(d) When a player bats out of turn, and is put out, and the proper batter is called out before the ball is pitched to the next batter, charge the proper batter with a time at bat and score the putout and any assists the same as if the correct batting order had been followed. If an improper batter becomes a runner and the proper batter is called out for having missed a turn at bat, charge the proper batter with a time at bat, credit the put out to the catcher and ignore everything entering into the proper batter’s safe arrival on base. If more than one batter bats out of turn in succession, score all plays just as they occur, skipping the turn at bat of the player or players who first missed batting in the proper order.
CALLED AND FORFEITED GAMES
(e) (1) If a regulation game is called, include the record of all individual and team actions up to the moment the game ends, as defined in Rules 4.10 and 4.11. If it is a tie game, do not enter a winning or losing pitcher.
(2) If a regulation game is forfeited, include the record of all individual and team actions up to the time of forfeit; enter as winning and losing pitchers the players who would have qualified if the game had been called at the time of forfeit. If the winning team by forfeit is behind or the score is tied at the time of forfeit, do not enter in winning or losing pitcher. If a game is forfeited before it becomes a regulation game, include no records. Report only the fact of the forfeit. NOTE: Innings pitched, for purposes of eligibility, will count on that pitcher’s record in a forfeited game, provided more than one inning was physically played.
RUNS BATTED IN
10.04 –
(a) Credit the batter with a run batted in for every run which reaches home base because of the batter’s safe hit, sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, infield out or fielder’s choice; or which is forced over the plate by reason of the batter becoming a runner with the bases full (on base on balls, or an award of first base for being touched by a pitched ball, or for interference or obstruction).
(1) Credit a run batted in for the run scored by the batter who hits a home run. Credit a run batted in for each runner who is on base when the home run is hit and who scores ahead of the batter who hits the home run.
(2) Credit a run batted in for the run scored when, before two are out, an error is made on a play on which a runner from third base ordinarily would score.
(b) Do not credit a run batted in when the batter grounds into a force double play or a reverse double play.
(c) Do not credit a run batted in when a fielder is charged with an error because of muffing a throw at first base which would have completed a force double play.
(d) Scorer’s judgment must determine whether a run batted in shall be credited for a run which scores when a fielder holds the ball, or throws to a wrong base. Ordinarily, if the runner keeps going, credit a run batted in; if the runner stops and takes off again when noticing the misplay, credit the run as scored on a fielder’s choice.
BASE HITS
10.05 – A base hit shall be scored in the following cases, when –
(a) a batter reaches first base (or any succeeding base) safely on a fair ball which settles on the ground or touches a fence before being touched by a fielder, or which clears a fence;
(b) a batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball hit with such force, or so slowly that any fielder attempting to make a play with it has no opportunity to do so; NOTE: A hit shall be scored if the fielder attempting to handle the ball cannot make a play, even if such fielder deflects the ball from or cuts off another fielder who could have put out a runner.
(c) a batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball which takes an unnatural bounce so that a fielder cannot handle it with ordinary effort, or which touches the pitcher’s plate or any base (including home plate) before being touched by a fielder and bounces so that a fielder cannot handle it with ordinary effort;
(d) a batter reaches first base safely on a fair ball which has not been touched by a fielder and which is in fair territory when it reaches the outfield unless in the scorer’s judgment it could have been handled with ordinary effort;
(e) a fair ball which has not been touched by a fielder touches a runner or an umpire; EXCEPTION: Do not score a hit when a runner is called out for having been touched by an Infield Fly.
(f) a fielder unsuccessfully attempts to put out a preceding runner, and in scorer’s judgment the batter-runner would not have been put out at first base by ordinary effort. NOTE: In applying the above rules, always give the batter the benefit of the doubt. A safe course to follow is to score a hit when exceptionally good fielding of a ball fails to result in a putout.
10.06 – A base hit shall not be scored in the following cases, when –
(a) a runner is forced out by a batted ball, or would have been forced out except for a fielding error;
(b) a batter apparently hits safely and a runner who is forced to advance by reason of the batter becoming a runner, fails to touch the first base to which that runner is advancing, is called out on appeal. Charge the batter with a time at bat but no hit;
(c) the pitcher, the catcher, or any infielder handles a batted ball and puts out a preceding runner who is attempting to advance one base or return to an original base, or would have put out such runner with ordinary effort except for a fielding error. Charge the batter with a time at bat but no hit;
(d) a fielder fails in an attempt to put out a preceding runner, and in the scorer’s judgment the batter-runner could have been put out at first base; NOTE: This shall not apply if the fielder merely looks toward or feints toward another base before attempting to make the putout at first base;
(e) a runner is called out for interference with a fielder attempting to field a batted ball, unless in the scorer’s judgment the batter-runner would have been safe had the interference not occurred.
DETERMINING VALUE OF BASE HITS
10.07 – Whether a safe hit shall be scored as a one-base hit, a two-base hit, three-base hit or home run when no error or putout results shall be determined as follows:
(a) Subject to the provisions of 10.07 (b) and (c), it is a one-base hit if the batter stops at first base; it is a two-base hit if the batter stops at second base; it is a three-base hit if the batter stops at third base; it is a home run if the batter touches all bases and scores.
(b) When, with one or more runners on base, the batter advances more than one base on a safe hit and the defensive team makes an attempt to put out a preceding, the scorer shall determine whether the batter made a legitimate two-base hit or three-base hit or whether the batter advanced beyond first base on the fielder’s choice. NOTE: Do not credit the batter with a three-base hit when a preceding runner is put out at the plate, or would have been out but for an error. Do not credit the batter with a two-base hit when a preceding runner trying to advance from first base is put out at third base, or would have been put out but for an error. However, with the exception of the above, do not determine the value of base hits by the number of bases advanced by the preceding runner. A batter may deserve a two-base hit even though a preceding runner advanced one or no bases; a batter may deserve only a one-base hit even though the batter reaches second base and a preceding runner advances two bases. EXAMPLES: (1) Runner on first, batter hits to right fielder, who throws to third base in an unsuccessful attempt to put out the runner. Batter takes second base. Credit batter with a one-base hit. (2) Runner on second. Batter hits fair fly ball. Runner holds up to determine if ball is caught and advances only to third base, while batter takes second. Credit batter with a two-base hit. (3) Runner on third. Batter hits high fair fly. Runner takes lead, then runs back to tag up, thinking ball will be caught. Ball falls safe, but runners cannot score, although batter has reached second. Credit batter with a two-base hit.
(c) When the batter attempts to make a two-base hit or a three-base hit by sliding, that batter must hold the last base to which said batter advances. If the batter over slides and is tagged out before getting back to the base safely, that batter shall be credited with as many bases as were attained safely. If that batter over slides second base and is tagged out, that batter shall be credited with a one-base hit. If that batter over slides third base and is tagged out, that batter shall be credited with a two-base hit. NOTE: if the batter overruns second or third base and is tagged out for trying to return, that batter shall be credited with the last base touched. If the batter runs past second after reaching that base standing, attempts to return and is tagged out, said batter shall be credited with a two-base hit. If the batter runs past third after reaching that base standing, attempts to return and is tagged out, said batter shall be credited with a three-base hit.
(d) When the batter, after making a safe hit, is called out for having failed to touch a base, the last base reached safely shall determine if that batter shall be credited with a one-base hit, a two-base hit, or a three-base hit. If the batter is called out after missing home base, that batter shall be credited with a three-base hit. If the batter is called out for missing third base, that batter shall be credited with a two-base hit. If that batter is called out for missing second base, that batter shall be credited with a one-base hit. If that batter is called out for missing first base, that batter shall be charged with a time at bat, but no hit.
(e) When the batter-runner is awarded two bases, three bases, or a home run under the provisions of Playing Rules 7.05 or 7.06 (a), that batter-runner shall be credit with a two-base hit, a three-base hit, or a home run as the case may be.
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