How many ways can a hitter reach 1st Base?
Question:Triva question - I had the answer a while back but just cant remember! How many ways can a batter reach base in baseball? I think there are around 9ways - but not sure!
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1. Hit2. Fielder's Choice
3. Reached on Error
4. Wild Pitch/Dropped Third Strike
5. Hit by Pitch
6. Walk
7. Catcher's Balk (with men on base, if the catcher does not return to the catcher's box before signaling and receiving a pitch. The most likely time this would happen is on an Intentional Walk -- which wouldn't be a big deal, since the batter is being walked anyway).
8. Catcher's Interference
9. Obstruction
Hey Ryan R., here's a quote from former Major League umpire Tim McClelland regarding Rule 4.03(a):
McClelland: It is a balk if the catcher doesn't stay in the catcher's box until the pitcher delivers the ball. If he were to step out of the catcher's box – the little box behind home plate – before the pitcher delivers the ball it would be called a catcher's balk. The runners would advance.
As a matter of fact, I have never seen it called, it's one of those things you just kind of let slide. But it is in the rule book, we haven't updated the rule book in a long time. If it was called recently, it would be by an umpire taking the rule book to the letter of the law and sometimes we have to kind of overlook some things to make the game run smoother.
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1. hit2. error by a fielder
3. hit by pitch
4. walk
5. catchers interferance
6. Dropped third strike
7. Fielders choice
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Not sure how specific to get but I can think of these:1. Hit
2. Error
3. Walk
4. Intentional walk (if you break it out)
5. Dropped 3rd strike
6. Catcher's Interference
7. Fielder's Choice
8. Hit by Pitch
Can't come up w\ the 9th you mentioned (and I may be 2 short if BB & IBB are the same)
Great question though!
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Depends if reaching first base means from the batters box, they could be a pinch runner, which brings your total to 8Hit,
Walk,
HBP,
Error
Catcher's interference
Dropped 3k
Fielder's choice
**EDIT**
Boy, somebody doesn't like anyone's answers in here. My guess is the guy with the fewest thumbs down votes?
I'm just going to relist these a little more concisely, since apparently my input wasn't appreciated as is.
1. Base on Balls - Rule 6.08(a)
COMMENT: 6.08(a) counts a BB the same as an IBB, however rules 10.02(a)(12) and 10.02(a)(13) does ask for separate tallies for total BBs and a second for IBBs, so you could count this as two separate ways to reach 1st if desired, I just wouldn't myself.
2. Hit by Pitch (Touched by Pitch) - Rule 6.08(b)
3. Catcher's Interference - Rule 6.08(c)
COMMENT: If a play follows the interference, the manager of the offense may advise the plate umpire that he elects to decline the interference penalty and accept the play. Such election shall be made immediately at the end of the play. However, if the batter reaches first base on a hit, an error, a base on balls, a hit batsman, or otherwise, and all other runners advance at least one base, the play proceeds without reference to the interference. Also, if catcher’s interference is called with a play in progress the umpire will allow the play to continue because the manager may elect to take the play. If the batter-runner missed first base, or a runner misses his next base, he shall be considered as having reached the base, as stated in Note of Rule 7.04(d).
4. Fielder's Interference (Obstruction) - Rule 6.08(c)
COMMENT: Although Catcher's Interference and Obstruction are part of the same rule, they are given two different terms, and I'd therefore count them as two separate methods of reaching 1st Base.
5. Dropped Third Strike - Rule 6.09(b)
COMMENT: Providing (1) first base is unoccupied, or (2) first base is occupied with two out. Also, a batter who does not realize his situation on a third strike not caught, and who is not in the process of running to first base, shall be declared out once he leaves the dirt circle surrounding home plate.
6. Pinch Runner - ?
I actually had trouble finding this specifically. Rules 3.08(4) and 10.03(b) both mention rules regarding the pinch runner, and 6.10(b) says that a Designated Hitter may not be a pinch runner, but I couldn't find anything specifically describing it. Rule 6.00 and Rule 7.00 deal with the batter and the runner respectively, but I just couldn't find it specifically.
7. Error - Rule 10.05(b)(1)
8. Fielder's Choice - Rule 10.05(b)(3)
9. Hit - Rule 10.05(a) and 6.09(a)
A BALK only advances runners who are on base, not the batter, no matter the count. Look up rule 8.05 and see the penalty section (just after part m) and you'll see that the batter never advances on a balk.
The link below links to the Rule 8.05 in reference to a balk, but you can use it to look up all the other rules I listed.
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I also have a question for der. Do you think a catcher's balk would be scored any differently than a balk by the pitcher? If they are both called a balk, and would both be scored the same (i.e. without any differentiation between the two, officially), I think you'd have to count them both as the same thing.
Now, disregarding even that, all it says is that the penalty is a balk. It doesn't call it a catcher's balk. If you read Rule 2.00, a balk is defined as an illegal action by the pitcher. So perhaps the way to read Rule 4.03(a) is not that the catcher is doing something illegal, it's that the pitcher made the illegal motion by throwing while the catcher was not standing with both feet where he should. It doesn't seem like the most natural way to read it to me, but since they call it a balk, and a balk is defined as an illegal motion by the pitcher, I think I'd interpret it that way.
Now, all THAT being said, as I stated above, a balk, by Rule 8.05, does not result in the hitter reaching 1st base, so you would not count it as a method in this discussion.
1. hit
2. error
3. walk
4. dropped 3 rd strike
5. catcher's int.
6. catcher's balk
7. obstrcution
8. hit by pitch
9. fielder's choice..
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Check the archives before asking questions. It seems as though I've answered this question a thousand times...(1) Base hit
(2) Base on balls
(3) Hit by pitch
(4) Error
(5) Wild pitch (on third strike)
(6) Passed ball (on third strike)
(7) Obstruction
(8) Interference
(9) Fielder's choice
Notes:
(A) There is no such thing as a catcher's balk
(B) The batter is never awarded first base because of a balk
(C) A batted ball that strikes a runner and entitles the batter-runner to first is a base hit
(D) A base on balls is a base on balls
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