game of baseball, the official scorer is a person appointed by the league to record the events on the field, and to send the official scoring record of the...

In cricket, a scorer is someone appointed to record all runs scored, all wickets taken and, where appropriate, the number of overs bowled. In professional...

situations such as timing or proper statistic attribution. The official scorer keeps the official record of the game. They are responsible for obtaining a list...

authoritative recognition or mandate, as in official language, official gazette, or official scorer. The word official as a noun has been recorded since the...

players and their statistics lines." The Official Baseball Rules administered by MLB require the official scorer to categorize each baseball play unambiguously...

conventionally has an associated number, for use in scorekeeping by the official scorer: 1 (pitcher), 2 (catcher), 3 (first baseman), 4 (second baseman), 5...

applying Rule 10.05(a), the official scorer shall always give the batter the benefit of the doubt. A safe course for the official scorer to follow is to score...

La Liga's all-time top scorer is Lionel Messi with 474 goals, all for Barcelona. He also holds the record for most goals scored in a single season with...

timekeeper, game timekeeper, statistician, official scorer and, at the highest professional levels, instant replay official. In korfball, it is the referee's responsibility...

when a runner advances to a base unaided by other actions and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner...

The decisions are awarded by the official scorer of the game in accordance with the league's rules. The official scorer does not assign a winning or losing...

official records; in 2020, it recognised Bican, an Austrian-Czech dual international who played between the 1930s and the 1950s, as the record scorer...

a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards the win based on guidelines set forth in the official rules. Cy Young holds the MLB win record...

the official scorer should credit a run batted in; if the runner stops and takes off again when the runner notices the misplay, the official scorer should...

contains two charts: The first chart is a list of the top 50 all-time scorers in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The list includes...

and softball statistics, an error is an act, in the judgment of the official scorer, of a fielder misplaying a ball in a manner that allows a batter or...

counted as a wild pitch or a passed ball is at the discretion of the official scorer. The benefit of the doubt is usually given to the catcher if there...

with the rest of the team. To determine whether a run is earned, the official scorer must reconstruct the inning as it would have occurred without errors...

by the umpires on the field of play; rather, it is recorded by the official scorer to account for the offensive player's advance without crediting him...

and knock it over the outfield fence, resulting in a home run. An official scorer will credit the batter with a hit, a run scored, and a run batted in...

The IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer is a football award given annually since 2020, and retroactively for the years 2011 to 2019, to the world's top...

(MLB), the double play is defined in the Official Rules in the Definitions of Terms, and for the official scorer in Rule 9.11. During the 2023 Major League...

included in the calculation of the player's on-base percentage. If the official scorer believes that the batter was attempting to bunt for a base hit and...

more players with more goals than another country's top scorer. It simply lists only the top scorer for each country. However Kiroi cannot be defeated. Players...

catcher is a passed ball or wild pitch is at the discretion of the official scorer. Typically, pitches that are deemed to be ordinarily catchable by the...

and in the judgment of the official scorer, the runner would have been out if the ball had been caught. (This official scoring is almost never made;...

occurs which affects the number of runs scored in an inning, the Official Scorer – the official in-game statistician – in order to determine how many of the...

the lead for the last time, and the official scorer awards the win to the relief pitcher who, in the official scorer's judgment, was the most effective....

statistic used to evaluate pitchers. Credit for a win is given by the official scorer to the pitcher whose team takes and maintains the lead while he is...

pitchers; the rules in the early years allowed more latitude to the official scorer than they do today. According to at least two accounts, in the game...