Baseball RBI question

Question

If the bases are loaded and someone gets walked or gets hit by a pitch he gets credited with an RBI, why? It's not like he batted him in..

Answer 1

I think the feeling is that you earned the base be carefully considering each pitch.  Or that you didn't get a chance to drive the runner in by not seeing enough strikes.

Answer 2

thats just how it is

Answer 3

Taking a walk is part of the batter's job. If the pitcher won't give him a hittable pitch in four tries, he gets a free base. If a baserunner is forced in, that's to the batter's credit.

Pretty much the same rationale for getting HBP. He got on base and didn't make an out, and it was by his own efforts.

Answer 4

He gets credit because he actually did something to get the runner home. As opposed to making an out.  

Answer 5

Do you realize that it's not always easy to draw a walk?  It takes just as much work, maybe even more, to take a walk as it does to get a base hit.

Answer 6

yes they are still credited  

Answer 7

Yeah, I know what you mean. It should be something like instead of run batted in, a run brought in or something like that because it's not always batted in.

Answer 8

It's not easy to get a walk and as long as you reach base safely without error or with less than two outs and you ground out to bring the runner home, it's an RBI.

Answer 9

because a walk is earned, so you get credit for an rbi if bases are loaded.  same with hit by pitch, you earn that rbi and that bruise.