Talk:Error (baseball)

message: I don't think I even understand what this sentence means.  Why does it matter if the "team on the winning side of a perfect game" commits an error or not?
"Because a batted ball hit on the fly into foul territory, with the batting team having no runner(s) on base, and a fielder misplaying such ball for an error, it is possible for a team on the winning side of a perfect game to commit at least one error."
It doesn't.  I think it merits mention because when people hear 'perfect game', they think of a game in which the winning team made no defensive mistakes, when in actuality a perfect game just indicates that no runners from the opposing team reached base, be it by walk, hit, error, etc.  A dropped foul ball with no runners is an error, but it doesn't allow the batter to reach base, so it doesn't affect the perfect game.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.188.17.247 (talk) 18:49, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible cleanup 

message: Herman Long is listed as holding the major league record for most errors, with over 1000, yet he doesn't appear in the records by position paragraphs, nor do the other 1000+ error holders. According his his article, Mr. Long was a shortstop, so shouldn't he also hold the record for most errors by a shortstop? Wschart (talk) 13:15, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree - this page had issues. Long is the errors leader both at SS (1070) (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/longhe01.shtml) and career (1096) (http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/E_tf_career.shtml) and I'm sure there are other inconsistencies. Please feel free to fix this. Ckruschke (talk) 19:09, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Records 

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message: While the picture does show an error, I think readers would understand it better with a video, perhaps one showing both a throwing and fielding error (they can be two separate plays, of course).
As to how to get a free one ... it would be cruel but accurate to say that if you hang around a Little League game you'll definitely get some on camera. Of course, it would help if you knew the people at the game; there is rather low social tolerance at the moment for strangers showing up with video cameras at other peoples' kids' games. And to be honest it probably wouldn't be fair to the kids committing the errors for their mistakes to be the ones illustrating the English Wikipedia's article on errors.
A high school or small-college game (assuming admission to the latter is free) would give rise to less of those issues, although there would be less certainty of catching an error during play. Maybe someone could even approach a minor- or major-league team.
Or, a broadcaster could be persuaded to release a short clip or two under a free license to us. Daniel Case (talk) 04:01, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video