2/22 is the earliest date for a major league game ever chronicled on this blog, and is probably the earliest date for a major league game I’ve ever consumed. Unfortunately, that early start to games turned out to be completely unnecessary in 2020. It looks as if the scoresheet doesn’t have lines separating the scoreboxes, but they were in fact very faint and didn’t pick up the scan – I have nowhere near the spatial awareness that would be required to pull off scorekeeping without lines. The transparency makes the field diagrams on the right side of the sheet unrecognizable; I find those very helpful for spring training games to keep track of where the subs are playing in the field before it becomes clear where they are appearing in the batting order. And since I often eschew tracking pitches for such games, there’s room to facilitate it.
The most notable thing about the game was that it was a scoreless spring training game for five innings. The eventual winning run scored with one out and runners on the corners in the top of the seventh, the Blue Jays pulled off the delayed double steal play that I hate so much when employed by OSU coach Greg Beals. It worked here, with Anthony Alford swiping home while some guy named Wall advanced to second. It was quite an inning for Alford; after lining a single to center as the leadoff man, he stole second and third with one out and then home during the next at bat.
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