Minnesota Twins @ Kansas City Royals Game Thread (5/28)

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Originally Posted by keg in kc

He didn't get a glove on it (at least it didn't look like it on my 3 inch tv here in the studio....), that's often the line of demarcation.

You'd never have inside the park homers if goofy plays like that were considered errors...

You're right - he didn't get close to it. I just think that was a pretty routine play to make, but I can see the relative logic of calling it a hit.

Originally Posted by alnorth

generally, the infielders get almost no slack at all, to the point where its only an infield hit if no human being on the planet could reliably make the play. However, outfielders are given EVERY benefit of the doubt. It has to be a blooper reel play for an outfielder to get a fielding error.

All part of the beauty of baseball. You can get in these discussions and sometimes the scorer bears you out and other times not.