 If you have been watching these videos in order then you probably notice by now that there are situations where the rule book will not only define what something is but it will also go back and further define what it is not. And so in this video let's take a look at what is not an assist since we just looked at assists in the last video. There are three different situations that the rule book classifies specifically as being not an assist. So, you know, if you have, if you're kind of fuzzy on it, these will hopefully clarify on a particular play. So the first one is that we do not give an assist to a pitcher on a strikeout, not to a pitcher on a strikeout. And so you'll recall that the catcher actually gets credit for the putout. It's the automatic credit for the putout if there is a strikeout. And so because we don't credit the putout to the pitcher, you know, maybe it would perhaps make sense to some people to give him an assist. But I think we do keep track of how many batters a pitcher has struck out. And so we don't give him an assist. There is one exception to this, and that is unless he throws out a batter at first on a dropped third strike. So unless he throws on a batter, first is on a dropped third strike. And so you remember if, say, first base is open, and we have our batter here, and first base is open, you know, the third, or there's two outs, and you know, so there is a runner on first base, then if the catcher drops the third strike in the at bat, then the runner can take off and try to beat the force play at first base. And so generally what will happen is that the ball would just kind of, you know, bounce back here, and the catcher usually doesn't have much difficulty picking it, you know, running over to it, picking it up, and then throwing it, the batter out. And actually I've never seen this occur, so it's probably a rare situation. But it's, you know, quite possible that the ball could bounce off the catcher and you know, maybe ricochet it back out here, and so the pitcher then he could run down, pick it up, and then throw on to first base. And in this case, he would receive credit for the assist. So the second way also relates to pitchers. And so a pitcher does not receive credit for an assist whenever he throws a pitch, and a runner then is put out by being picked off or caught stealing, you know, by the catcher. So not to a pitcher when after he throws a pitch, a runner is caught stealing a base, you know, by the catcher. So this would be, say for example, if we have a runner trying to steal, so we have a runner, you know, on first base, and he tries to move up on the pitch, and the pitch is delivered and the catcher then throws to whoever, the second baseman or the shortstop, likely be covering the base. He would receive the ball and then try to tag the runner out. So if the runner is out and he is caught stealing, we would give an assist to the catcher, but not to the pitcher. And so I think what these first two things here are clarifying, basically, is that if it's a pitch, it cannot count as a, you know, as an assist as well. So let's say that, you know, pitches don't count as assists. And then the final way that the rulebook specifically clarifies, specifically states is not an assist, is if a fielder's wild throw, if there's a fielder who makes a wild throw, and even if the runner is put out later on the play. So a fielder's wild throw is not an assist, even if the runner is later put out. And so this would be, for example, if we had a, say, a batter and he hits a ball and he's running. So let's say we have a shortstop and he, there's a ground ball hit to the shortstop and he throws it, you know, over the first baseman's head and the ball gets back here. And so this runner, he might see that then, depending how big, you know, the field is, and that will vary at every location, basically every field you're at, he might continue, you know, to try to run on to the next base. So in the case that, say, you know, the first baseman or it could be the catcher, you know, who runs down here, he might pick up the ball and then be able to throw the batter out to, you know, another fielder covering second base. So in this situation, this throw here, we would give, you know, credit for the assist to the catcher or whoever threw it. In this case, it was the catcher who said, so we would give him credit for the assist, but we wouldn't give credit to the shortstop on that play because it was a wild throw. So these are the three ways then that, and that the rulebook specifically states, are not counted as assists.