Blogger Baseball Scorecard: Tampa Bay Rays @ Toronto Blue Jays

Tampa Bay Rays @ Toronto Blue Jays - Game 2
Tuesday, June 1st 2010
7:07 PM EDT
Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Weather Partly Cloudy 27°C | 81°F
Wind: NW 19 kph | 12 mph (LR)

This scoring form is set up to allow scoring according to David Cortesi's "Scoring a Baseball Game the Project Scoresheet way".

The four stacked boxes on the left of every AB box is for noting each pitch - each box has one line three characters across for a total of 12 pitches/AB.

Immediately beside, is one large rectangle for scoring the play - it has 5 lines, 4 characters each line. The top three lines are reserved,

1st line - before the play
2nd line - the play
3rd line - after the play

The bottom two lines are for emergencies (long at bats, garbage monster interrupts the play).

Pitch Legend:

X means the ball was hit into play.
C is a called strike.
S is a swinging strike.
F is any foul except a fouled bunt attempt.
B is taken as a ball.
N is a balk (“no pitch”)
L is foul bunt
t1 is a throw over to 1B

New scoring notes:

2s> is safe at 2B, pulled foot off bag
1,2 runner on first advances to second

Notes:
Home Plate - Angel Hernandez, First Base - Paul Schrieber, Second Base - Dan Bellino, Third Base - Joe West

In the 9th C. Pena tried to call time for the second time in a row, late. The first time, time was granted so late that Gregg actually threw the ball. Second time the pitch was one of those low strikes Home plate Umpire Angel Hernandez had been calling all night, but not for the wild Gregg.

It seemed to me the strike zone took a long while to settle in - and then when Gregg was wild in the ninth, it quickly shrunk in size. Pena had a point about the call, but he should have known to stay in the box until time was actually granted.

When Gregg was thrown out after Rommie Lewis had been called in, he had a point too.

The lost DH and the Double Switch

In the seventh my keyboard exploded (letters sticking down) and that's when Tampa's brainiac Manager Joe Maddon, started doing the double switches. I'm still not sure I got it right. I think he used his DH for a pitchers spot and then double switched later that same inning. It got very confusing because he pinch hit for Kapler the inning before but then didn't make that change part of the double switch till later in the inning. The TV guys may have explained the switch but I was busy picking up spacer bars and number buttons off the floor.

The new Score Card

This was the first time I scored every pitch, and it took a whole different mind set, I've scored probably a thousand games and old habits die hard; I had to focus myself by saying at the beginning of every at-bat, 'OK, first pitch, 0-0 count...', that helped. In the Jays 3rd I was finally recording all the pitches, that lasted till the 7th - and then, you know, the keyboard thing.

Tampa Bay Rays	1		2		3		4		5		6		7			9
1. B. Upton, CF	CBC X	GO6-3			BX	2BH7 ---			CFC	K			BCS FS	Ks		BFS BBS	Ks
2. C. Crawford, LF		WW X			X	PO6			X	4-3			BX	BH8 RBI <>		BBB B	BB <>
3. E. Longoria, 3B		BB -			CX	4-3 #1 2,3			FCX	6-3 /			BBX	wp#2 1,2 6-3!!		BCB	#2SB 1-8#2 2,3 BB <>
4. C. Pena, 1B		3UA /			BCX	PO2f /					BBF CBS	Ks	X	1-5 (6) IFBH RBI ---		BCC BC	* K
5. W. Aybar, DH 6th 2B 7th G Balfour P 9th ph John Jasso				5-3			BCB X	PO8			CBX	GR 2BH7 =	BCB X	BH8 #4-1,3 -		CBB BCF B	BB <>
6. B. Zobrist, 2B 6th RF			BBC BSF B	BB ---			CX	BH8 ---			BCF BC	K	X	FO7 /		BBC BB	BB RBI <>
7. G. Kapler, RF ph H. Blalock 6th 7th S Rodriguez RF			t1S BCB BB	BB =			t1X	PO9			BFB SC	K /			FO9	BSX	2BH8 3RBI ---
8. D. Navarro, C			X	sac B 1-3 X			t1B X	BH8 #6 1,3 -						BH <>	4-3	BBB B	wp2,3 BB -
9. R. Brignac, SS			FFC	K /	BC	PO6f		PO5f /						2BH9 (8) RBI <>	X /	BCS FBF BS	#8SB Ks /

/Inning Totals

Totals

Pitching

p/s

ERA

Runs

SP Jeffrey Niemann

6.1

86-61

2.79

Hits

RP Randy Choate

0.1

3/3

6.43

Errors

RP Grant Balfour (W)

1.1

26-16

1.93

LOB

RP Rafael Soriano

1.0

15-9

1.27

Toronto Blue Jays	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9
F. Lewis, LF	??X	HR9 RBI <>			BX	2BH7 (8) =			BBX	* BH7 <>			SCB X	PO5f				GB6 Et6 #1H, 2 <>
A. Hill, 2B	X	PO3			CBB SBF FX	FO7			X	POP9 BH9 <>			X	BH7 -			BX	FO9
A. Lind, DH	CFX	FO7			BFF S	Ks /			X	3BH9 (8) 2RBI ---			CCS	Ks			BFB SS	Ks
V. Wells, CF	FX	FO7 /					X	FO8	X	LD5 5-3 /				X /			X	2BH7 RBI =
J. Bautista, RF			FBB BB	BB =			X	PO4				Ks				BB ---	BX	FO7 /
A. Gonzalez, SS			CCF FBS	Ks			BCS FS	Ks /				BH8 <>			FFX	PO8
L. Overbay, 1B			BX	4-6-3 2s> X					X	4-3		2BH8 =			BC t1B t1X	BH9 =
J. Buck, C			SBX	6-3 /					CBS BX	HR8 RBI <>		sac FO7 RBI			BCF X	5-3 1,2 2,3
E. Encarnacion, 3B					CX	PO6			CFB X	PO6	BSB BX	PO2f /			BBF BX	FO8 /

/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals	Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p/s	ERA
Runs	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	6	SP Brian Tallet	5.2	4	0	0	3	4	0	82-52	4.63
Hits	1	0	1	0	4	2	1	1	1	11	RP Casey Janseen	0.1	2	2	2	0	1	0	-	-
Errors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	Jason Frasor	0.2	3	1	1	0	1	0	-	-
LOB	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	2	1	8	Shawn Camp	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
											Kevin Gregg (L)	0.2	-	4	4	-	-	-	-	-
											Rommie Lewis	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-