#379---CHN @ TEX, 3/26/2011

 

All the scoring came in the first 3 1/2 innings of this late spring training game, with the Cubs scattering six runs across four innings to beat the Rangers’ five-run first. The starters were respectable major leaguers to booth (CJ Wilson and Andrew Cashner). Scoring didn’t just stop after the top of the fourth, almost all offense did. From that point forward Chicago mustered just a walk and a single, while eighteen straight Texas hitters were retired before a two-out ninth inning single by Chris Davis (which allowed him to avoid the golden sombrero that he would later seem to wear permanently in Baltimore). Davis moved up to third on a Jeff Samardzija wild pitch, but Taylor Teagarden struck out swinging on the next pitch to bring the game to a close.

#378---SD @ CLE, 3/10/2010

 

The Indians won this on the strength on nine in the fourth, an inning in which the first ten batters reached base (single, single, walk, walk, single, error, walk, Grady Sizemore grand slam, single, walk). Finally the string was broken with a strikeout, but only after a dropped foul pop extended Jhonny Peralta’s at bat.

#377---CHA @ CLE, 3/24/2009

 

This spring training game ended in a tie after ten innings, with me scoring the tenth by tracing out only the boxes I needed on the blank side of my scoresheet. Not much of note happened in the game, both teams scoring both of their runs in a single inning (Cleveland in the third, an inning that should have done more damage save for Ben Francisco getting picked off following his lead off walk; Chicago in the seventh). Both teams stranded a runner at second in the tenth.

#376---HOU @ CLE, 2/28/2008

 

The Indians’ leadoff slot reached base in all six plate appearances (infield single and walk from Grady Sizemore, three walks and a double from Jason Tyner), with Tyner scoring four runs.

One thing I notice here with the mass substitutions is that I would record a defensive replacement at a new position in the style “[Name] [Position] [Inning]” as opposed to what I now do which is “[Position] [Name] [Inning]” (e.g “Niekro 1B B6”). The way I do it now is more aligned with how the starters are listed on the scoresheet, with position before name. Also, I now use numbers for position and ^ or v for top or bottom. Then as now, if a defensive replacement plays the same position as the fielder he replaced, I do not record his position separately (e.g. “Tyner T5”).