The story…
And the quiz…
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/quiz/_/id/4979/do-know-mlb-rules
I got 5/10, which either means something or it doesn’t. 
It means you could be a TV baseball commentator. 
I got a piss-poor 4 out of 10.
4 out of 10 here. I like quizzes, not sports.
9 out of 10, but I umpire as a hobby and read the rule book for fun.
Can someone spoiler the correct answers? I get errors when I try to “submit”.
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4/10.
Thank you, jsc1953. I got 8/10, missing the first and ninth.
6/10 for me.
Sadly, it seems I’m overqualified for some positions on the national broadcasts.
4/10 here, as well. No better than blind luck. Thing is, I actually did know the answer to three of those, and just guessed badly on the other seven.
4/10 as well. Got the first four, missed the rest. On #7, I thought about it, but thought it wouldn’t count as a force out.
6 out of 10. Mostly guessing on every question.
I got 5 right, the same as I’d have gotten by flipping a coin.
I was only SURE of two… and I got one of those wrong!
I took it for fun, and maybe it’s because I’m tired and took some cold medicine, but I did not like the way the questions were worded. Way too many extraneous details that came off as the question writer bragging about his sports knowledge. Why in the world was every single player’s name mentioned? Do you really think umpires are thinking are thinking about who the people are?
I think I got a four out of ten, but I accidentally closed it before copying my score. I will say I was always told as a kid that being hit by the ball was never an out in real baseball, so that lost me a bunch.
6/10, a bunch of guessing.
It’s interesting that for the article, they didn’t have any actual MLB umpires take the test. Enough of these rules are uncommon enough, and only take affect after the play, that it’s really only the umpires who need to know them.
A) I’m guessing that, since it was an ESPN site, they were going for the sports fan who could relate better if it seemed like a real game situation.
B) You were probably also told “one base on an overthrow” and “tie goes to the runner”, right?
I remember the second, but not the first. But yeah, I probably was.
And, yeah, I get that about seeming more real. Still, in my aforementioned state, it made it harder to get to meat of what was going on. I even just skipped the last problem because of it.