Dear dimwit on the phone

Eh, close enough. You may have just cost the pitcher a scholarship.

 

This didn't happen too recently, but had a baseball parent come up to me and -- in a not-so-polite way -- ask that I don't give his son's team an error because it would have cost his kid a no-hitter. It was a routine grounder and the third baseman's throw sailed into foul territory. Runner would have easily been out. I calmy told dear old dad that my stats aren't official and the coach could turn in whatever he wanted, but my story would contain nothing about a no-hitter. He was irate.

 

I'm sorry, it's been a long week. Why isn't that an error?

 

I'll second the motion, why is that not a no hitter?

 

*is third one who needs clarification from @KYSportsWriter*

 

Fourthed. An error in this situation would mean it's not a hit.

 

Guessing it would have cost him a perfect game?

 

Should be no perfect game regardless of it being a hit or error. The runner reached base.

 

I think KY misstated something on the original post, but I can't quite figure out what. I'm sure he'll be back to explain it.

 

Correct. So the error would cost him a perfect game, not a no-hitter.

 

And if the dad was arguing against calling it an error, he would be arguing against it being a no-hitter, too.

 

OK, I'll try one more time. Maybe the dad didn't want the error called because it would have cost the kid a perfect game, not a no-hitter as KY wrote? What am I missing? Error = no perfect game ... Error = still no-hitter Right? I'm soooo confused.