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.
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