Scorecard: July 26, 2011 Orioles at Blue Jays - Game 1 of 3

From Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario,

Canada

Baltimore Orioles

(40-58)

Manager: Buck Showalter

@

Toronto Blue Jays

(51-51)

Manager: John Farrell

Game 1 of 3

First pitch: 7:07 PM EST




Starting Pitchers
Baltimore - Jake Arrieta
Toronto - Brandon Morrow

Umpires
Home - Gary Darling
1B - Bruce Dreckman
2B - Al Porter
3B - Rob Drake

Weather
Temp: 21C | 70F
Mostly Sunny
Wind: NW 32 km/h gust 46 km/h
(left field corner to right field line)

Ugly game.

But baseball's not what consumed me tonight. Tonight was about the tools that make the scorecard happen - the new craft of scorkeeping in the IT age...


A Review of Blogger.com's New Interface

This is my first scorecard using the new Blogger interface. It loads FAST, and comes back for another edit FAST.

I 'm using FireFox 3.6.17 Browser to score with this scorecard - because an error in the coding of that browser reads 'text background color' as, 'background color' - and that allows me to score with colour notations (the little coloured triangles). I'll bet it would be even faster in FireFox5.

I've asked the Blogger in Draft Team to add a background color widget - no response, and no indication that they're working on it. Don't know how much call there would be for it... . Do you want to change background colours all the time - and have to head into the html to do it? :) If so click the feedback button and let them know please.

Meanwhile the Minima II scorecard is moving furhter and further away from blogger combatablity, soon I'll be designing and coding a web site to hold it - and that has got me thinking...


Blogger could be SO much more...

All this has allowed me re-envision what I like to call, The Uber-App, an interface for the internet that allows all the interfaces and social tools to work together in one place, seamlessly.. (I've mused about the Uber-App at one of my other blogs - link.)

As I'm imagining it now, the Uber-App would be a blogging interface, a code editing interface (like Notepad++), with video edit, chat, email, Skype, draw graphic design and so on  -  all on one page. As well, the Uber-App would be a programmable interface - so if I wanted a widget that changed background colours for example, I could build it and place it in my widget box in the form of a button.

So instead of going the Word Press route as Blogger in Draft Team has done - with more and more objects and JavaScript (which slows everything, and is quirky, and funnels users into a populist design that is constantly changing anyway) - rather, the new blog would be a multi-functional node that allows all interface technology in - configured the way the user chooses to lay it out - to fit the job they're doing with it.

Easier said than done - but I think we have to assume a better code literacy in the future than we are imagining right now. I see people being able to juggle several functioning elements in speech; I think this is going to develop - and not just in speaking and writing - but in the way we work with knowledge workers tools.

The craft of communication is going to specialize, the way carpenters, stone masons and plumbers crafts became magical to non-crafts-people over the 400 years of the industrial revolution. The Uber-App will be the hammer that all the trades use - but now specialized in each trade so that the "ball-pein" hammer that blacksmith's, engineer's or machinist's use is completely different from a carpenters hammer.

What do you think?


Michael



Line ups and pitching totals assistance from ESPN - Box Score.

Colour Legend (as of this date)

Neon Green is a Base Hit Forest Green is a runner advanced by a Base Hit or a Sacrifice Yellow is Intentional Base on Balls, Defensive Indifference, a Sacrafice or Fielder's Choice Red is an out Pink are un-earned bases - Wild Pitch, Passed Ball or an Error Neon Blue is a Stolen Base Navy Blue is a base earned via a Hit or a Sacrifice, that results in a Run Scored

The Scoring Notations

BB Base on Balls - Batter to first base because the umpire ruled that pitched ball was the forth pitch of the at-bat out of the strike zone HBP Hit By Pitch - Batter is ruled by the umpire to have been hit by pitch - awarded one base BH Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at first base via a hit ball 2BH Two Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at second base via a hit ball 3BH Three Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at third base via a hit ball HR Home Run - Batter-runner safe at home plate via a hit ball RBI Run Batted In - via a SAC, a BH or a BB - a run scores RS Run Scored. SAC Sacrifice - With less than two outs the batter causes a base runner to advance but in the process, is put out FC Ball hit on the ground, fielded and a put out made anywhere but at 1B DI Defensive Indifference - A baserunner advances because the defence, for strategic reasons, does nothing IBB Intentional Base on Balls - The defences decides to walk a batter for strategic reasons

SB Stolen Base - Base runner advances on a pitched ball despite the defence's best efforts CS Caught Stealing - A baserunner is put out while tring to advance on a pitch K Called third strike - Batter out because the umpire ruled that with two strikes in an at-bat, a pitched ball was in the strike zone Ks Batter out, swinging third strike IFR Infield Fly Rule - A ball popped up on the infield that an umpire rules is easily catch-able - batter-runner is out, the ball is dead LO Ball caught that was hit so hard it appears like the vector was a straight line GO Ball hit on the ground, fielded and the batter-runner is put out at 1B FO A high arching hit ball caught on the fly by a fielder E The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar play Eth The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar throw WP Wild Pitch - a pitched ball that bounces in and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing PB Passed Ball - a pitched ball that doesn't bounce and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing

pop A ball hit in a high arch such that the distance travelled up is greater than the distance travelled from the plate GR To prevent injury, "Ground Rules" define what hit or thrown balls are in, and out of play - announced before each game by the home team manager f Hit ball caught in foul territory - for example "FO3f" - Fly Ball caught by First Base, foul op Out of Play - for example "FO5op", Fly ball caught by Third Base across the railing in the stands, or in the camera bay... BRIF Base runner is out for interfering with the defence while they're making a play on a batted ball Kf2 Foul tip with 2 strikes, caught by catcher - strike three - - - - - - - - - - - -

Box Score - Final	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Baltimore Orioles	0	2	2	3	3	0	0	2	0			12	16	1	8
Toronto Blue Jays	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0			4	9	1	9

Baltimore Orioles	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  J Hardy SS	FO8		RS RBI HR7	BC RS 2RBI HR #9 1,H	PB #9 2,3 FB8 deep FO8 #9 3,H Camp out		FO8 /		6-3
2.  N Markakis RF	Ks		RS BB	CSBB X 4-3	Janssen + BH8			FO9 deep!
3.  A Jones CF	Ks /		FO9	X SB BH7 Morrow out	FO9 /			LO! 4
4.  V Guerrero DH		RS BH8	FO7	S>X S. Camp #3 1,2 5-3		3UA		BBBC B Ashby going on and on about how good Ledezma is looking... RS BB
5.  M Wieters C		RS BH9	GB3(4) 3-1 (E1 missed the bag) #2 1,2	BX 4-3 /		K		C*BX RS 2RBI HR7
6.  D Lee 1B		2RBI 2BH7(8) #4 2,H #5 1,H	RBI BH8 #2 2,H #5 1,2		RS BH8	2BH7		CBBS BB BB
7.  M Reynolds 3B		6-3	Ks /		Ks	4-3 /		BBCX FO9 /
8.  N Reimold LF		K		X RS HR	RS RBI 2BH8 (E8 - to the wall) #6 1,H		Ledezma + Ks		Francisco + FB9 line FO9!
9.  R Andino 2B		Ks /		BFFX RS BH7	PB RS RBI 2BH8 (E8 - to the wall) #8 2,H		Ks		6-3
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0	2 3 1	2 2 2	3 4 0 1	3 4 0 1	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	2 1 0 1	0 0 0 0

Orioles' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Jake Arrieta	5.0	5	4	4	2	4	2	103/63	5.12
Jason Berken	1.0	2	0	0	1	0	0	17/10	5.23
Mark Hendrickson	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13/7	5.14

Toronto Blue Jays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  Y Escobar SS	BH8		CX RS BH5 E5th (9)	BCCX 1-3 /		WP #8 1,2 BB		X FO8 /
2.  E Thames RF	FC BB #1 1,2		CCBF S Ks		GB3(4) 3-1 !!!	LD! 3 LO3 :( /			FO8
3.  J Bautista 3B 3rd PH  J. MacDonald (for Bautista hit by pitch - in the head)	pop FO4		SFB RS HBP (PR)		6-3		pop FO3		5-3
4.  A Lind 1B	FO8		CBBX RS 3RBI HR7 #1 2,H #3 1,H		BB		6-3		3-1 /
5.  E Encarnacion DH	GB6 FC 6UA #2 out /		BSBX pop FO5f		GB1 off his shoe, right to 1st Base 1-3 /		BH7
6.  T Snider CF		1-3	BSSB BS Ks /			Berken + BH9	K /
7.  A Hill 2B		FC BH7		BCFB BX RS RBI HR		pop FO6		BX FO9 short
8.  C Patterson LF		SB GB1 FC 1-4(6?) #7 out		CFFX 4-3		BH7		BX 1-5-3 GB1 (off his leg right to 3rd Base 5-3)
9.  J Molina C		#8 1,2 K /		SBBF BFC K		FO9 #6 2,3		FFBB X BH7
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 1 0 1	0 1 0 1	3 2 1 0	1 1 0 0	0 0 0 1	0 2 0 3	0 1 0 1	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0

Jays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Brandon Morrow	3.1	9	7	6	1	5	3	90/62	4.71
Shawn Camp	1.1	4	3	3	0	1	0	24/17	5.24
Casey Janssen	1.1	2	0	0	0	1	0	14/12	3.00
Wil Ledezma	2.0	1	2	2	2	2	1	36/19	9.00
Franl Francisco	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9/4	5.16