It has been over five years since I have posted a scoresheet here. A lot has changed in the last five years; most notably in this context, I have less idle time to sit around and scan/upload/write about old scoresheets. But what has not changed is my obsession, my compulsion with keeping score of every game that I sit down to take in, be it in person or on TV or even on the radio (and sometimes, in desperate and sad situations, on internet gametrackers). And so as I thought excitedly about the prospect of watching and scoring the South Africa/Australia WBC qualifier final tonight, on a day with single digit temperatures and a blanket of snow outside, I decided to bring back Weekly Scoresheet.
I may have less free time than I did when I posted scoresheets weekly, but what I really did not have for the last five years was a scanner. Why an adult man with a perfectly decent income could not be bothered for five years to buy a scanner or even a printer is a matter best left unexplored, but I now have such a device, and so I no longer have any excuses. While every 267 weeks does not fit the weekly of the blog's title, I will endeavor to make the frequency of posting at least a little more than every 267 weeks.
Of course, this blog is by definition a vanity project. It has never had a non-negligible number of readers, nor should it. Another person's scoresheets may be interesting for a few examples, gleaning a few different ideas or gawking at terrible handwriting. Were they for the pre-Project Scoresheet era, they may have analytical value; fortunately, my entire life has a baseball fan has been lived in an era in which play-by-play accounts of major league games are preserved as a matter of course. So this blog has no function other than to allow me to reminisce about my own baseball viewing experiences, and that's enough reason for me to maintain it.
The game here is an eminently forgettable game from 2009, but my general pattern for this site is to post one scoresheet from each season of my time keeping score, then go back to the beginning. With a multi-year absence, I'll pick it up again in 2009. I also try to make note of any changes I've made to my personal scorekeeping style for each year, although at this point my memory of what I might have changed six years ago is more than a little hazy. In looking back at the blog archives, it looks like the last wholesale change I made was in 2010, and I have already documented it on this blog .
This Indians/Twins tilt was literally on top of the 2009 Scoresheets folder in my file cabinet. Minnesota battered Fausto Carmona for seven runs over the first two frames, punctuated by a pair of three-run homers from Jason Kubel. Joe Mauer also had a fine Mauer-type game in his MVP season, drawing a walk, hitting three singles, and scoring four runs. Scott Baker no-hit the Tribe through 4 1/3 before Mark DeRosa doubled; later Chris Gimenez would homer to center of Baker in the 7th inning on a 0-1 pitch for his first major league hit.
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