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MESA, Ariz. — <\/strong>Sitting through a spring training exhibition baseball that gets out of hand early gives you time to let your mind wander.<\/p>\n

Today’s game between the Oakland A’s and the Chicago Cubs was a blowout when we decided to leave at the end of the seventh inning. The A’s were leading 15-2 and the Cubs looked as though they wanted the game to be over immediately.<\/p>\n

So, where did my mind wander?<\/p>\n

I was wondering why a wild pitch or a passed ball — mistakes committed by pitchers and catchers, respectively — aren’t scored as an “error” in the box score.<\/p>\n

Baseball is a game of statistics. You can find a stat for anything, any activity, any good deed or misdeed committed on the field.<\/p>\n

The Cubs’ right fielder today was dinged for two errors on the same play as he booted the ball twice while trying to pick it up deep in the right-field corner. The A’s hitter was credited with a double, but he ended up on third base as the ball finally got thrown into the infield.<\/p>\n

We saw three passed balls today. Yes, the errors were logged in the scorebook as “passed balls,” but not as errors. Why not?<\/p>\n

The catcher erred in letting the ball get by him, allowing runners to advance; had the ball gotten past the catcher with no one on base, there wouldn’t be a record of it in the scorebook.<\/p>\n

I pose these questions as a way to make pitchers and catchers even more, um, accountable for the mistakes they make on the field. A pitcher goes wild, that’s his mistake; a catcher lets a catchable pitch slip past him, that his error.<\/p>\n

They ought to show up — on the record — in the book of baseball records.<\/p>\n

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