#73---CLE @ MIN, 4/11/1999

This was a wild early-season encounter won by the Indians 9-8. Plenty of offense to go around, from two-run homers by Jim Thome and Wil Cordero, to a triple and two doubles from Richie Sexson, to a two-out, bases-clearing triple by Todd Walker.

One thing you'll notice on the sheet in a few places (see Guzman's fourth-inning at bat for instance) is the presence of a "?". Long before it was a LOST episode, ? was my version of Phil Rizutto's WW for "Wasn't Watching". The ?s in Guzman's at bat indicate that I knew two pitches were thrown, but I either didn't know whether they were balls or strikes or what the sequence was.

The ? was pretty common in my early sheets, largely as the result of scoring a lot of games off of the radio. Now it's been eliminated, as in the GameTracker era one can simply get on the internet and look up whatever it was that you missed, whether due to broadcaster incompetence and inattention or your own.

#72---CLE @ FLA, 3/22/1998

I don't think I've ever been as excited for a spring training game as I was for this 1998 encounter between the Indians and Marlins. I'm absolutely confident that I will never be more excited for a spring training game, unless on some trillion-to-one shot a descendant of mine ever plays in one. Seriously, it's a spring training game.

But I was all excited to see the Indians try to avenge their World Series loss to the Marlins by winning a meaningless game, and sure enough they did, 6-0. Believe it or not, it didn't erase the World Series from my memory.

#71---Norwich @ Akron-Canton, 4/21/1996

This sheet comes from a Norwich(NYA)/Canton-Akron (CLE) AA game I attended in April, 1996. The scoring is horrible--using the diamond method without tracing the diamond makes for an illegible mess. Notable names in the game include Shane Spencer, Rickey Ledee, Enrique Wilson, Richie Sexson, Bruce Aven, and Alex Ramirez.

#70---STL @ PHI, 5/5/2010

For 2010, I have expanded my coding system to allow for more detail, primarily about the location of batted balls. The outfield is broken down into 7l, 7, 78, 87, 8, 89, 98, 9, and 9l, with the l represented by a cursive l to avoid any confusion with my older scoresheets which used l for line drive. Additionally, there is s for shallow, d for deep, w for warning track/wall, and implied m for medium depth on outfield batted balls.

Examples on display in this sheet include but are not limited to:

* Rasmus' second inning double, a fly ball down the right field line and to the warning track (9l)
* Ibanez' second inning fly to left, caught in medium left-center (78)
* Ludwick's third inning fly to center, caught in medium center-right (89)
* Utley's fourth inning line drive to deep right
* Kendrick's fifth inning pop to second, caught in shallow right-center (98s)
* Rasmus' ninth inning fly to right, caught near the line and medium-deep (9l)

On hits, the location detail across the width of the field is listed next to the hit code itself (ie. =98l), but the depth is recorded as a subscript. For outs, all clarifying location detail is written as a subscript.