
Effectively Wild Episode 1873: Puke and Rally Cap
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Official Scorer's Rule for Automatic Extra Base Hits
Jadon just emailed us this week and noted in thursday's padre's giant's game, horhe alfaro hit a game winning hit with the bases loaded and nobody out. Here's the thing though, the game ended two to one and he was not awarded a double. Why is this the case? Yes, betters awarded air basis for gatting it over the fence on the ally, and two bas as for bouncing it over. I see no reason why he shouldn't be awarded two bases out or the double. And gre r b to make it a three one on. But we are going to specially comment in here that if you hit an automatic double,
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