The last game scheduled for opening day in 2020 was the Angels against the A’s. The late innings were entertaining, as
No other Opening Day games had gone to extra innings, so this was the first game ever played under the accelerated scoring rules. My technique to mark this was to write “A2” (for “automatically given 2nd base”) for the runner placed at second (Ohtani and Semien) in the corner of the scorebox where I would normally note a double or other advancement to second base. One thing that will get a little messy with this – if the game goes multiple extra innings, the slash I would normally use to note the end of the inning would bleed in to the automatic runner’s box. Also, a team batting around would create a mess.
The good news is that a) batting around would likely mean that the team that did so won the game, making further innings of no concern and b) since we’re just replacing innings with new labels anyway, you could just skip one. It’s unlikely there would be enough extra innings played that you would run out of space this way. As an aside, I have never understood why some scorekeepers freak out at batting around and start crossing off and re-numbering subsequent innings, etc. For organized baseball, you will almost certainly catch up eventually, so I just let the overflow go into the next inning and mark where it starts and ends with solid lines at the top of the uppermost overflow scorebox and the bottom of the lowest-most overflow scorebox.
As for the game, Ohtani became the first automatic runner to commit a TOOTBLAN, getting caught in between second and third on Walsh’s grounder to first. The A’s took advantage of wildness from Hansel Robles (a hit batter, wild pitch, and walk) to load the bases. Holby Milner was summoned to face Matt Olson, and the first pitch was a walk off grand slam to right.
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