#12---CLE @ TOR, 5/30/1998

Another unremarkable game (a 4-2 Blue Jay win) here because of some evolution in my system. You can see that there are now location codes for hits, “L”, “C”, or “R” for the field they were hit to. Not seen in this game was “+” as a symbol for an infield single, the regular horizontal dash for a single with a vertical dash through it.

I also began recording the specific pitch on which events such as stolen bases or wild pitches occurred, but the means of doing so was clumsy. A “x” in the bottom righthand corner of the box in which the pitch occurred indicated that there was a note. The notes are at the top of the scoresheet, separated by semicolons. This forces one to go through the entire sheet, finding the x’s in order, and then figuring out which pitches they are associated with. But it was a start.

For some reason I cannot recall, I was marking popups to infielders with a “F” prefix (i.e. “F4”, “F5”, etc.). My philosophy now is not to specifically mark things that are obvious. If the third baseman had fielded a groundball and recorded a putout, it would have had to be a fielder’s choice, part of a double play, or a runner out advancing--all of those would get their own mark. So given that it is an unassisted putout by the third baseman with no other scoring prefix to explain it, it had to have been a popout. So why write that out? For some reason, I was doing it at least for this game.