I’m not a huge fan of the Project Scoresheet method. Its linear nature is great if you are going to be using it to input to a database, but makes it hard to follow which players are involved in action on the basepaths. One thing it handles very well, though, is the Manfred runner in extra innings. Since the top line of each scorebox records what happens before the end of the plate appearance, I just jot “A2” for automatic runner on second and proceed as if everything is perfectly normal and that I am not watching some kind of Frankenstein monster being passed off as baseball.
Both Clayton Kershaw and Zach Plesac allowed a single run over five and six innings respectively, and both bullpens kept the game scoreless into the tenth (although the Dodgers’ relievers allowed just one walk in four innings while Guard’s relievers had to escape jams in the seventh and ninth. The latter was particularly scary as Oscar Gonzalez flat dropped a flyball that should have been the second out, putting runners at first and third before Anthony Gose struck out Gavin Lux and got Trea Turner to foul out).
In the tenth, the Guards used an Andres Gimenez infield single and Richie Palacios pinch-hit sac fly to push across their free runner, while the Dodgers mustered a walk but never advanced theirs against Anthony Gose and Enyel De Los Santos.
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