Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 11, 2008
Keeping Track of the Order

A rare batting out of order took place in the Reds/Mets game today:

Backup catcher David Ross came to the plate to lead off the inning and lined out. But the batter in the No. 8 spot should have been outfielder Corey Patterson, with Ross hitting ninth after an earlier double switch.

Mets manager Willie Randolph came out to inform the umpiring crew of the mix-up. Patterson was charged with the out, which officially counts as a putout by the catcher, and Ross came up again. This time, he singled.

Reds manager Dusty Baker said the batting order was correct on the dugout board and on his scorecard.

"The guys hit out of order, and it's my job to catch that," Baker said. "So I take full responsibility."

When I wrote the game scoring code for STATS, coding this took a bit of doing. For example, Randolph might have decided he didn't want Ross batting again, and Patterson would be skipped. So I had to code in a skip batter event, which given the right situation, a scorer might have to skip everyone in the lineup to get back to the proper batting slot.


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