Scoring Dropped Foul Ball

[JimD]

After a catcher dropped a popup foul ball, I scored the pitch as a foul ball and assigned an error to the catcher. This would have been the third out of a scoreless inning with 3 runners left on base. That batter eventually walks (which scores a run).

I note in the game summary that the pitcher is correctly not charged an earned run. However, there is no notation on the scorecard indicating the Catcher Error, even though the Fielding Statistics indicate the catcher did commit an error. This makes replaying the inning, strictly from the scorecard, impossible ... it looks from the scorecard as though the run should be earned.

It seems that there should be a note on the scorecard indicating FLE2 near the 5th pitch ( 2 - 2 count, 5th pitch dropped foul).

Jim D.

[FTMSupport]

We have not found any standard way of putting this kind of notation on a scorecard. As you noted, we handle the statistics correctly, but there is just not room on the scorecard boxes to indicate errors like that in a standardized way. (If you have a web reference showing a standardized way of showing a dropped foul on a scorecard, we would love to see it.)

The only way to see every event that happened during the game is with the Play by Play listing.

We have added notes to the next release, but the notes will only show on the Play by Play listing as well. In the future, we may modify the scorecard to indicate there is a note for a particular box, then have area that lists all the notes.

Thank you.

[OhioTex]

could a "circled x" be a dropped foul ball annotation? - not a standard i know of but an idea... (had two last weekend)

[FTMSupport]

Interesting idea OhioTex --- we would need to add a "Dropped Foul Ball" as an option in addition to just "Foul Ball" in that case. We will add it to our list for potential future enhancements.