--- In baseballmn@yahoogroups.com, SSmith2084@... wrote:
>
> Tonight Twins have runners on 2nd and 3rd and Mauer hits a sac fly
to
> centerfielder to score the runner from 3rd. CF catches ball and
slips and falls
> allowing runner from 2nd to score. Announcers say Mauer is given
2 RBI's on
> the play. How can that be as he (the batter) was certainly not
responsible for
> the second run scoring. I would say that no RBI should have been
given
> somewhat like when a run scores on a double play grounder.
>
> Steve
>


You got me again on this one. It's happened before that a runner
has scored from second on a sacrifice fly (I watched Ozzie Smith
score from second on a fly to center by Tom Herr in the 1982 World
Series). The unusual thing on this one was that two runs scored on
the fly. The last time this happened in the majors was May 8, 2001
when Alex Ochoa of the Reds knocked in two with a fly against the
Diamondbacks. The Twins are still trying to find out if they've
ever had a player with a two-run sacrifice fly.

Stew