can someone make sense of this box score?

[kermalou]

dodgers vs. braves

for the dodgers is shows -1 runs in the 8th inning.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

The guys in charge screwed up. If you notice, it says Dodgers have 7 in bold.

 

[NakaNaka]

Yeah, just ESPN.com being stupid. Nothing new.

 

[ZowieHowie]

Maybe someone hit a HR, and then rounded the bases backwards

 

[halbe]

It would count either way. You don't have to run the bases in the MLB if you hit a home run. It's optional.

 

[ZowieHowie]

Originally posted by: halbe
It would count either way. You don't have to run the bases in the MLB if you hit a home run. It's optional.

I know. I was just trying to be funny ;-)

 

[NakaNaka]

Originally posted by: halbe
It would count either way. You don't have to run the bases in the MLB if you hit a home run. It's optional.

Really? I've never heard of that. Is it in the rules?

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: halbe
It would count either way. You don't have to run the bases in the MLB if you hit a home run. It's optional.

Rule 10.07a states:

10.07 Whether a safe hit shall be scored as one base hit, two base hit, three base hit or home run when no error or putout results shall be determined as follows:

(a) Subject to the provisions of 10.07 (b) and (c), it is a one base hit if the batter stops at first base; it is a two base hit if the batter stops at second base; it a three base hit if the batter stops at third base; it is a home run if the batter touches all bases and scores.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rule10.shtml

It's not officially a home run or a run unless you touch all bases.

 

[NakaNaka]

It would be funny if a guy was 3-3 with a HR, a single and a double and hit another HR and so he could get the cycle he stopped on third.

 

[Argo]

Originally posted by: halbe
It would count either way. You don't have to run the bases in the MLB if you hit a home run. It's optional.

Wrong. In 2000 NLCS Ventura hit a walk off grand slam for the mets. However, he never got past the first based and got credited with only an RBI single.

 

[RabidMongoose]

Originally posted by: Argo

Originally posted by: halbe
It would count either way. You don't have to run the bases in the MLB if you hit a home run. It's optional.

Wrong. In 2000 NLCS Ventura hit a walk off grand slam for the mets. However, he never got past the first based and got credited with only an RBI single.

The Grand Slam Single!