Tuesday, August 25, 2020

#157---BAL @ CLE, 5/25/1997




I’m always torn about posting the dreadful Excel scoresheet – it’s so bad, yet they are also some of the earliest extant scoresheets I have to post. Thankfully, I’ve almost exhausted the supply at this point.

The lack of detail on these is best illustrated by Marquis Grissom’s first inning, in which he singled and then was caught stealing (simply indicated by “C”). The Indians got a good game from David Justice with a single, two walks, and a homer for three runs scored and two driven in. I don’t have any idea why I didn’t record the Orioles ninth, but after reading the Baseball-Reference account, maybe it was a way of suppressing a near-disaster:

Surhoff singled
Webster struck out
Tarasco walked, advancing Surhoff to second
Incavaiglia, hitting for Bordick, singled, advancing Surhoff to third and Tarasco to second
Reboulet ran for Bordick
Anderson doubled, scoring Surhoff and Tarasco, advancing Reboulet to third
Alomar was intentionally walked
Davis struck out
Alvin Morman relieved Mike Jackson (for some reason pitchers get full names on this scoresheet but batters don’t)
Palmeiro struck out

Final: Cleveland 7, Baltimore 6

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