After finally taking the plunge to track the score of the game in-progress, I applied the same basic approach to tracking all of the summary statistics. Previously I displayed these for each inning as R-H-W-LOB; to save space I now smashed them all together, so that 1201 was 1 run, 2 hits, 0 walks, 1 left. If the running total changed from the previous inning (i.e. if the line for the inning was anything other than 0000), then the new total was listed to the right, as you can see for the Blue Jays’ second. If the values ever cease being single digits (which did not happen in this game, but often do; obviously 10+ hits in a game is not a particularly rare event), then I break it into two lines, with runs and hits on top, walks and LOB on the bottom. The final tally for the game, from whatever inning it was reached, is boxed in at the end of the game.
Early in this game, only the totals in Toronto’s boxes were doing much changing, thanks to a 2-run fifth inning homer by Darrin Mastroianni (these were not your 2015 Blue Jays, as the lineup presence of Glenn and Tolleson also suggest). Marcus Stroman was pitching great into the seventh, recording the first two outs before surrendering a double to would-be Rookie of the Year Jose Abreu and walking Adam Dunn (one of my favorites who had a great game in this his final season, singling, doubling, and drawing two walks, yet also inexplicably getting caught stealing to end the fifth--the only time he was caught this season, and one of just two attempts). Dustin McGowan was summoned, and promptly served up the lead as Dayan Viciedo hit a three-run bomb. In the eighth, McGowan had his own two-out trouble, with Adam Eaton singling to first base and Gordon Beckham following with a single. Aaron Loup surrendered a single to Connor Gillaspie and the White Sox had a 4-2 lead. Toronto quickly scored with a double and single to start the ninth, but could do nothing more.
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