[Waninski]

I've noticed what seems to be an in-game scoring mistake while playing out a game. Here was my situation:

My leadoff hitter doubled to start the bottom of the first inning. My second place hitter laid down a sacrifice bunt out in front of the plate, which for all intents and purposes succeeded. The runner moved from second to third. However, on the play, the catcher, who fielded the ball, overthrew the second baseman covering the bag and the ball went into the stands, sending the batter to second base and scoring the runner from second.

The play was scored as a straight error on the catcher, no sacrifice credited: "Reached on error, E2 (Groundball, 25)."

I can only judge this as incorrect scoring. Regardless of the error committed on the play, the batter must be awarded a sacrifice in this situation. It should properly be credited as "Sacrifice, E-2." The successful bunt moved the runner along to third, thus the batter did his job, and only by way of the error was the batter allowed to reach first and then second, and the runner allowed to score.

I notice that when a runner is on base, there is only the option to "Bunt." The game does not differentiate between sacrifice bunting and bunting for a hit in this situation, which is really the way it should be. Because even if the batter were trying to bunt for a hit in this instance, given the situation, the batter would still be credited with a sacrifice on the play in real life almost 100% of the time.

This is really something that needs to be corrected in future versions of the game. If necessary, I can try to post screenshots.

EDIT: I should also mention that the batter was even credited with an RBI on this play, which is patently incorrect.