#100---CLE @ TOR, 4/28/1996

My earliest scoresheets are horrible to try to read; not only was I using a terrible “circle how the batter reached” pre-printed sheet, but I insisted on using drawn out notations like “FLY 7” when a simple 7 would have sufficed. If you can soldier through that, this was a fun game for the Indians as they absolutely destroyed Frank Viola, lighting him up for ten runs in four innings. The biggest single blow was Sandy Alomar’s 3-run homer in the first, and Albert Belle hit a solo shot in the fourth. The onslaught didn’t stop when Viola got the hook, as the Indians scored six in two innings off Giovannie Carrara, including a two-run homer by Alvaro Espinoza, one of a career-high 8 he would hit in 1996 (8 of his career 22, it really was the silly ball era).


Toronto’s scoring came on three solo homers: Sandy Martinez, Carlos Delgado, and Ed Sprague. One thing I can’t figure out is how one was supposed to be able to tell if substitutions occurred in the top or bottom of an inning; the substitutes are all just listed with an inning number (e.g. Kirby 6). Maybe it was assumed to be top or offense or some other default unless otherwise noted?