Blogger Baseball Scorecard: 2010 MLB Baseball Post Season NLDS Cincinnati Reds @ Philadelphia Phillies

For personal reasons I couldn't score any games Friday. As such I missed this game, Cincinnati at Philadelphia - Game 2 and also, Atlanta at San Fransisco - Game 2.

Ironically, I found out I wouldn't be scoring Friday immediately after I published, I'm Score Keeping every game of the 2010 MLB Post Season at BaseballBlogs. So to fill in the record I'm going to 'backwards engineer' these two games from the data sets at baseball-reference.

Game Schedule - NLDS Cincinnati Reds @ Philadelphia Phillies

Game   Matchup         Day   Date     Time EDT  
Gm 1   CIN 0 @ PHI 4   Wed   Oct. 6   5:00 PM
Gm 2   CIN @ PHI       Fri   Oct. 8   6:00 PM
Gm 3   PHI @ CIN       Sun   Oct. 10  7:00 PM
Gm 4*  PHI @ CIN       Mon   Oct. 11  5:00 PM
Gm 5*  CIN @ PHI       Wed   Oct. 13  6:00 PM

Chart from MLB

NLDS Cincinnati Reds @ Philadelphia Phillies - Game 2
Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Friday, October 8, 2010
6:00 PM EDT

Starting Pitchers:

Cincinnati Reds

Bronson Arroyo G  GS CG SHO  IP    H   R  ER HR BB SO  W  L  ERA
2010  stats    33 33 2  0    215.2 188 95 93 29 59 121 17 10 3.88

Philadelphia Phillies

Roy Oswalt     G  GS CG SHO  IP    H   R  ER HR BB SO  W  L  ERA
2010  stats    33 32 2  2    211.2 162 70 65 19 55 193 13 13 2.76

Pitching stats via ESPN.

Umpires:
Home Plate - Bruce Dreckman
First Base - Sam Holbrook
Second Base - Ed Rapuano
Third Base - Gary Cederstrom

Baseball-Reference Scoring Notations

I decided to take this opportunity to learn the state of the art, project scoresheet scoring notations by using Baseball-Reference box scores as my reference. Up until now I have been using the behemoth four page box score at ESPN as a reference when I missed a play.

My scoring notations use the project scoresheet scoring notations that were designed to allow for computer imputs; but in reading the box score at Baseball-Reference I'm learning that there is a lot more detail being scored than I have included in these score cards.

For example: 5th Batter top of the second - Nix, has a 'T' notation in the pitch column. It stands for foul tipped and caught by the catcher. Holy! OK I'll use it handy when at strike three the ump shows the sign of fouled of but caught , strike three your out - which I didn't score. Neat.

Next, 7th Batter, top of the second inning - Stubbs, first pitch was a wild pitch and Nix moved up to second base. I've always noted a pass ball with a lower case 'wp' in the pitch columns followed immediately (to show they're connected) by 'B', so, wpB. Also in the AB box on the top line I note #5 1,2 - meaning the fifth batter in the order moved from 1B to 2B.

Next new thing in Stubbs AB, a comma before a notation - in this case comma S (,S) meaning that there was a play on the runner before the strike swinging pitch was thrown (probably the pitcher threw to second to keep Nix honest).

Next in Stubbs at-bat, another new notation for me, '*B', which indicates a Ball, blocked by catcher - which helps the reader understand the pitcher is still a little wild out there.

The rest of the notations in the project scoresheet method are pretty self explanatory - here's a list:

 B  = ball
 C  = called strike
 S  = strike swinging
 F  = foul ball
 X  = ball struck into play
*B  = ball, blocked by catcher
,S  = A sub, or a play on a base runner, then a strike swinging
wpB = wild pitch Ball (my notation)

Also I'm seeing the length of balls hit is recorded with these notations:

deep
weak
short

Box score for this game at baseball-reference.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cincinnati Reds	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Philadelphia Phillies	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	1	x


Cincinnati Reds	1		2		3		4		5		6	7	8	9	H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. B Phillips 2B	BBC X	HR7 RBI <>			BX	BH7(8) --			X	GB4 2BH7 <>
2. O Cabrera SS	BFF FX	pop FO6			X	GB5 BH7 #1 1,2 -			bX	GB5 sac 5-3 #1 2,3
3. J Votto 1B	FBB CFB S	Ks			SBB CX	FO7(8) short			FX	FO7 sac RBI x
4. S Rolen 3B	X	pop FO4 /			CBF FS	Ks			X	1-3 /
5. L Nix LF			BBC TFB X	GB4 Eth4 <>	FBB SS	Ks /
6. J Bruce RF			SX	FO7(8)			CX	HR9 RBI <>
7. D Stubbs CF			wpB, SC *BF BFB	#5 1,2 BB x			STB S	Ks
8. R Hanigan C			CF BB X	GB6FC 6-4-3 E4th #5 2,h -			CBF X	GB6 weak 6-3
9. B Arroyo P			CCC	K /			X	FO7 weak /


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Runs	1	1	0	1	1
Hits	1	0	2	1	1
Errors	0	0	0	0
LOB	0	1	2	0	0

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p-s	ERA


Philadelphia Phillies	1		2		3		4		5	6	7	8	9	H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. S Victorino CF	BX	pop FO3f			BCF FFB X	FO9
2. P Polanco 3B	CCX	pop2nd (deep) FO6			BFX	LO7 /
3. C Utley 2B	BFB X	FO9 /					BCC C	K
4. R Howard 1B			CX	BH8 -			BBB CFB	BB --
5. J Werth RF			CB *BX	FO8			*BB CFX	GB4 BH7 #4 1,2 x
6. J Rollins SS			CBX	FO7(8) short			X	GB4 DP 4-6-3 /
7. R Ibanez LF			BFF BX	GB6 weak 6-3 /
8. C Ruiz C					SBS BBF FFB	BB -
9. R Oswalt P					X	pop FO3f