#75---NYA @ TOR, 6/6/2010

This was a silly attempt to show what a combination scoresheet based on the Reisner (situational) method and a traditional scoring system might look like. There are two diamonds in each scorebox. The first is to record the situation (including outs, for which you circle 0, 1, or 2 although they didn't show up well in the scane) and baserunner advancement before the conclusion of the at bat, as you would in the Reisner system. The second is for tracing the runner's progress around the diamond, traditional style. You need not record how he advanced, since the Reisner portion does that for you, but it is helpful to mark stolen bases and CS that you'll want to credit to the individual's stat line.

Scoring like this is not particularly viable--it's basically scoring the game twice, once using the Resiner system and once traditionally. But it does give you both the situation and the traditional, individual-focused picture at the same time.

Unrelated note: If you're interested in LL Bean's scoring system, which I've touched on before here, you'll want to read my recent posts at Walk Like a Sabermetrician. The first mimics Bean's system. The second includes one of Bean's own scoresheets and his scoring key, thanks to Henry and the Bean company.

#74---CLE @ TB, 4/8/2000

I always like highlighting games featuring Dave Burba. The Indians won this early season game at Tropicana Field 6-4 as Manny Ramirez and Jim Thome hit back-to-back homers in the fifth. Mo Vaughn's three-run shot in the bottom of the sixth concluded the scoring. Unfortunately, Burba was relieved after six by Scott Kamienicki, which is a thoroughly unholy thing to have happen.

#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.

#69---CLE @ SEA, 7/26/2009

This was the last game that Cliff Lee would pitch for the Indians before being traded to the Phillies. He pitched seven innings and allowed just two runs as Cleveland supported him with four homers. Of course, Lee would wind up in Seattle during the off-season.

#68---CLE @ MIN, 7/6/2008

This was one of the few losses absorbed by Cliff Lee in his 2008 Cy Young season. The Indians led 3-1 going into the bottom of the seventh, but it from there it was slow death by one base advancements: walk, infield single, single, single, walk. The last eleven Cleveland batters were retired in order, enabling the Twins to win 4-3.

#67---CLE @ TOR, 7/8/2007

The Indians won their division in 2007, but this 1-0 loss to the Blue Jays in the final game before the All-Star break was one of the more frustrating games of the season. Josh Towers was perfect through 5 2/3, finally allowing a hit to Josh Barfield. Cleveland finally managed to mount a scoring opportunity in the ninth inning, but they left the bases loaded.

Meanwhile, Paul Byrd had been matching Towers' zeroes, but a one-out double by Reed Johnson and single by Alex Rios allowed Toronto to record the game's only tally in the bottom of the ninth. The game required just over 208 pitches to complete.

#66---KC @ CLE, 9/13/2006

There's nothing particularly notable about this mid-September scoresheet. It was not a very involved scoresheet by my standards, as I didn't bother to track pitches and used the diamond method. Ambiroix Burgos and Andy Cisco make appearances; I think those two will stick in my mind for some time to come despite having less than impressive careers.