ALCS Game 4: Yankees (Gil) at Guardians (Williams)

I'm not. Jazz might be due to have a good game.

It is a great rivalry, and those Islander teams were truly great teams, now all but forgotten except by Islander fans.
And by Rangers fans, who continue the juvenile whistling thing every home game to this day, more than 40 years later.

Edit: My friend Mike is also a big-time Islander fans and he has said the same to me about the early 80's Rangers winning a cup if not for the Isianders. He says that in some of those years, the Rangers were the 2nd best team in the NHL.

The most likely explanation is "degree of difficulty". When it was hit back to Leiter, it became a hard play when he "kicked" it toward the 1st base line after lunging to knock it down. Once that happened, he was running full out to track it down,  and if you look at the replay 1) he almost certainly doesn't know where Fry is coming down the line because all of his attention is on the ball, and 2) he's running so hard that when he gets it and flings it at Rizzo in desperation he can't set to make an easy throw to catch and he winds up throwing it too hard out of desperation for the distance between them, handcuffing Rizzo. So it either has to be scored an error on the initial failure to play the ball or scored a hit. The score can't give an error for failing to realize how much time he had, because that's not an error, and he can't really give him a throwing error because the throw was right at Rizzo's lower abdomen of just below that and he can't really give Rizzo an error because the throw was too hard to handle for the distance between them. Throwing a ball accurately and too hard isn't a error, really. Looking at the replay again, he has to move quickly to get a piece of the ball and knock it down, or it gets to Torres too slowly to get the out. After knocking it down, it becomes a more difficult play when he kicks it toward the line in his haste to recover. In my opinion, "hit" is the correct call.