Scoring Question

[Guest chasmat]

Hello,

I was up to bat with two outs and runners on first and second.  I hit a ground ball to short.  The runner on second ran into the shortstop and called out for interference.  The inning was over.  How should my at bat be scored?

Thank You!

Chas Matfam
Seattle
 

[noumpere]

Time at bat, no hit (probably).  You can get the baseball rules, which include scoring, by using the googler.

 

Here's an excerpt:

 

(b) The official scorer shall not credit a base hit when a:

 

(5) is called out for interference with a fielder attempting to

field a batted ball, unless in the scorer’s judgment the bat-

ter-runner would have been safe had the interference not

occurred.

[Gfoley4]

officially I believe that this is ruled a FC and the shortstop gets the putout. It's interesting to note that in baseball rules if your grounder simply hit your teammate you would be credited with a single, but since he committed interference you get a FC.