RipsADrive
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Ok. I’ll bite. Whose to say it’s not an inside the park HR? Or a double? You’ve gotta take subjectivity out of it. So it’s gotta be either a double. A triple. Or an inside the park. Take your pick.
I mean that's kinda the point I was making.
The baseline assumption is if it's a typical GR double is that it's a double. Everyone advances 2 bases from where they were when the pitch was delivered. In this case I don't see it as a typical GR double since, regardless of his intent, the fielder put the ball out of play negating the play.
If I were writing the rule I would use a throwing error by a pitcher as a reference.
One base, if a ball, pitched to the batter, or thrown by the pitcher from his position on the pitcher’s plate to a base to catch a runner, goes into a stand or a bench, or over or through a field fence or backstop. The ball is dead;
So in this case it would be 2 bases for the GR double +1 for putting the ball out of play.
Result would be an RBI Triple.