Editing Official scorer (section)

===After 1980===
Today, the [[Commissioner of Baseball (MLB)|MLB commissioner's office]] directly employs the official scorers who are responsible for producing score reports, although most scorers are hired on the recommendation of the public relations directors of baseball teams.<ref>Kalist, p.2</ref> Official scorers are typically retired writers, coaches, and umpires. Unlike [[Umpire (baseball)|umpiring]] teams, MLB official scorers do not typically travel between stadiums. Each official scorer is assigned to a stadium for the season, with each stadium having one or more scorers.<ref name="MLBstory" /> Scorers now have access to [[Instant replay|replay video]] from different angles which they can review before making a decision. As of 2012, MLB official scorers earned $150 per game.<ref>{{cite web|first=Bill|last=Christine|title=An Official Scorer's Call Isn't Always the Last Word|date=July 7, 2012|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/sports/baseball/a-baseball-official-scorers-call-isnt-always-last-word.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|access-date=2012-07-08}}</ref><ref name="yahoo">{{cite news |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ti-scorekeepers090208 |title=Technology puts scorekeepers in a box |first=Tim |last=Brown |date=September 2, 2009 |work=Yahoo! Sports |access-date=October 28, 2010}}</ref> Official scorers are not required to meet the old BBWAA requirements, and are also no longer required to pass a written test, which was once administered by the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] before it was phased out in the mid-1990s. Potential scorers are generally required to briefly apprentice under an existing scorer before they are allowed to work alone.<ref name="bbdigest">{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_7_63/ai_n6108323/?tag=content;col1 |title=The art of score keeping: correctly documenting the statistics of a game remains an exacting and challenging task |first=Larry |last=Stone |date=July 2004 |publisher=Baseball Digest |access-date=October 29, 2010}}</ref>

Official scorers are only occasionally terminated, but there have been cases when a scorer was replaced after making decisions which displeased the home team. In 1992 the [[Seattle Mariners|Seattle Mariner]] players signed a petition to have their official scorer replaced, and in 2001 the management of the [[Boston Red Sox]] ordered that a rookie scorer not be allowed to score another game after pitcher [[Hideo Nomo]] lost a no-hitter on a close play in right field that was ruled a hit rather than an error.<ref name="bbdigest" /><ref name="bbp2">{{cite web |url=http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=10164 |title=Prospectus Q&A
|first=Chaz |last=Scoggins |date=December 2004 |publisher=Baseball Prospectus |access-date=October 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>Kalist, p.3</ref>

[[File:NedYost.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.5|[[Ned Yost]]]]
In 2001, MLB formed a scoring committee to evaluate the performance of official scorers. In 2008, the scoring committee was given the authority to enforce the portion of rule 10.01(a) which allows the league to change a scoring decision that is "clearly erroneous". The committee has used this authority on a few occasions, having overturned three scoring decisions in the 2009 season.<ref name="yahoo" /> The scoring committee came under some scrutiny after a game on August 31, 2008. [[Milwaukee Brewers|Milwaukee]] pitcher [[CC Sabathia]] threw a disputed 7–0 one-hit shutout against [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pittsburgh]]. Milwaukee manager [[Ned Yost]] argued that the hit recorded by Pittsburgh should have been recorded as an error by the pitcher, but Pittsburgh official scorer Bob Webb disagreed. Yost commented, "That's a joke. That wasn't even close. Whoever the scorekeeper was absolutely denied major league baseball a nice no-hitter right there."<ref name="AP1">{{cite news |title=Sabathia throws 1-hitter in Brewers' 7–0 win
|first=Alan |last=Robinson |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=280831123&prov=ap |agency=Associated Press|location=Pittsburgh |date=August 31, 2008 |access-date=October 29, 2010}}</ref> The official scorer had argued that the batter was too close to first base to be put out by a clean play. Milwaukee appealed the ruling to the scoring committee, but on September 3 the committee reviewed the footage and supported the ruling by Webb, saying the ruling was not "clearly erroneous" as required by rule 10.01(a).<ref name="AP2">{{cite news |title=MLB scoring committee rules against Sabathia |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3568101 |agency=Associated Press|location=Milwaukee |date=September 3, 2008 |access-date=October 29, 2010}}</ref>