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putout

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an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout)

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the first baseman made 15 putouts Source: Internet

A safe course for the official scorer to follow is to score a hit when exceptionally good fielding of a ball fails to result in a putout. Source: Internet

Sullivan (1997), p. 292. The practice, common to bat-and-ball games of the day, of "soaking" or "plugging"—effecting a putout by hitting a runner with a thrown ball—was barred. Source: Internet

If the fielder bobbles the ball, the runner may still tag up, even before the fielder has full control of the ball (before the fielder is credited with a putout). Source: Internet

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