What is a fielder’s choice in baseball?
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Say a batter comes up with 0 outs and a man on first base. He hits a ground ball to the 3rd baseman, who throws to second base getting the lead runner out, but the original batter is now safe at first. Well that would be silly to give him credit for a single, because he didn’t actually achieve anything. He come up to bat with 0 outs and a man on first, and now there’s 1 out and he’s on first. So it gets treated as a normal groundout in his stats, but it’s called a fielders choice as a way to clarify that he’s now on first. So if he comes around to score and someone is reading the box score they won’t be like “how did he score a run if he grounded out. Oh it was a *fielders choice*.”
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