To Err or Not to Err

Question
I have served all year as an official scorer on a High School baseball team in California (CIF Southern Section).  In a recent playoff game, a scoring situation arose:

Runner on second, two out.  Batter hits ball to RF.  Runner on 2nd goes on contact.  RF fields ball.  Catcher calls for cut.  RF throws over the cut toward the plate.  Throw is ~15 ft up the line toward 3rd.  C moves toward 3rd to field ball as the runner comes home.  The catcher reaches out with glove hand (left), apparently to catch ball and apply tag.  Ball either briefly lodges in glove and then falls out due to the momentum of the arm-swing, or perhaps strikes the edge of the glove, not lodging.  The ball rolls slowly toward the fence.  Run scores.  Batter-runner goes to second, though I believe he would have done so even with a catch at the plate - he advanced as soon as he saw the RF was throwing past the cut.

The throw was off-line, but fairly long, so I am not inclined to give the RF an error, but merely a FC.  The C might have caught it and made the play, but the play was rendered not routine by reason of the throw being offline and into the runner.  I believe the batter-runner advanced to second as a result of the FC by the RF.

Should either the C or the RF get an E, or is the whole play just single, RBI, batter-runner advances on FC?

Answer
Tyler,

Oh the joys of being a scorer!

I agree with your decision - no error on the play.  It is difficult to decide without seeing the play, but if the play was not routine, I would not award an error.

If the throw was 'routine' and the fielder threw off line and wild, then the fielder deserves the error, but a long throw from the outfield is rarely routine.

Sounds like you got it right!

Brian