Unforced Advance on Catcher's Interference
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:23 pm
Had this situation come up in this afternoon's game.
Runner on second, batter's swing clips catcher's mitt and fouls off the pitch. Umpire calls the CI, and I press "In Play" then "Catcher Obstruction." iScore then asks what happened to the runner on second by bringing up the dialogue box, but it defaulted to advancing the runner to third. Easy enough to touch second and "held up," but I was surprized at the default advance to third.
If there were a runner on first to force the runner on second to advance, I could understand automatically advancing the runner. Not sure if this is an issue to report or if there are scenarios out there of which I am unaware that would permit a runner with an empty base behind him to advance on a CI call, but thought I would point it out.
Runner on second, batter's swing clips catcher's mitt and fouls off the pitch. Umpire calls the CI, and I press "In Play" then "Catcher Obstruction." iScore then asks what happened to the runner on second by bringing up the dialogue box, but it defaulted to advancing the runner to third. Easy enough to touch second and "held up," but I was surprized at the default advance to third.
If there were a runner on first to force the runner on second to advance, I could understand automatically advancing the runner. Not sure if this is an issue to report or if there are scenarios out there of which I am unaware that would permit a runner with an empty base behind him to advance on a CI call, but thought I would point it out.