What year? In the early days, the batter would have been credited with a single, that being sufficient to force the winning run home. These days, the batter gets credited with four RBI and a home run.
When they first put the Baseball Encyclopedia together, they went back over the old games as best they could and tried to correct all of those inequities, crediting the batter with what he actually accomplished. The first edition went through the 1968 season.
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Date: 2011-03-22 01:04 pm (UTC)When they first put the Baseball Encyclopedia together, they went back over the old games as best they could and tried to correct all of those inequities, crediting the batter with what he actually accomplished. The first edition went through the 1968 season.