So what about a ground ball to short but shortstop is covering for a steal?
That "woulda" been an out if no runners were on, but
Oh, and the first-and-third situation talked about below is a stolen base, not defensive indifference. From the rulebook:
The scorer shall consider, in judging whether the defensive team has been indifferent to a runner’s advance, the totality of the circumstances, including the inning and score of the game, whether the defensive team had held the runner on base, whether the pitcher had made any pickoff attempts on that runner before the runner’s advance, whether the fielder ordinarily expected to cover the base to which the runner advanced made a move to cover such base, whether the defensive team had a legitimate strategic motive to not contest the runner’s advance or whether the defensive team might be trying impermissibly to deny the runner credit for a stolen base. For example, with runners on first and third bases, the official scorer should ordinarily credit a stolen base when the runner on first advances to second, if, in the scorer’s judgment, the defensive team had a legitimate strategic motive— namely, preventing the runner on third base from scoring on the throw to second base— not to contest the runner’s advance to second base. The official scorer may conclude that the defensive team is impermissibly trying to deny a runner credit for a stolen base if, for example, the defensive team fails to defend the advance of a runner approaching a league or career record or a league statistical title. [Post edited by Nova Hokie 95 at 01/25/2017 3:47PM]
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Posted: 01/25/2017 at 3:46PM