Blogger Baseball Scorecard: Live Score Card: Boston @ Toronto Game -3

Boston Red Sox v Toronto Blue Jays
Thursday, August 12, 2010
12:35 PM Rogers Centre
John Lackey v Brad Mills

Notes:

Also 'threading' at Joy of Sox.

Descided late that I wanted to score this game.

After missing last nights game (08/11/10) I found that even with 3 pages of stats posted at espn for every game, a sense of a flow of the game was missing. The games only error was overlooked on the 'Box Score' page, I had to go the the 'Play by Play' page, where a long hand narrative of the game is recorded, to see who committed it.

The only way to record the character of a game is with a complete score card. Why aren't they published in the old media papers, and why not now at MLB and others, like ESPN or Baseball-Reference?

I guess only a small percentage of the population know how to read them; which is odd because if you played baseball someone at some point probably handed you the score card as they left to take their at-bat, and said, "Here, score."

You begrudenly took the clip board and the pencil because there was no choice; maybe you messed it up and someone had to fix it later, but you filled in the little boxes that show a run scored... so you know what a score card looks like, and you understand the lay out, with a little practice you'd soon be able to read one, and with that you'd probably want to try your hand at scoring one.

Perhaps it's a catch 22 situation; outlets don't publish complete score cards, so people don't read them - thus people don't know how to read them - therefore outlets don't publish them.

The official scorer at each game keeps a score card I assume, most announcers who are worth anything to the game keep one; MLB could publish those?

It would be of benefit to the game.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Boston Red Sox	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	5
Toronto Blue Jays	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	6


Boston Red Sox	1	2	3	4	5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. J Ellsbury CF								wp #9 1,2 GB3 3-1 /				pop FO6 /
2. J Lowrie SS						HR8 RBI <>				FO7				BB -
3. V Martinez 1B						Ks				FB8(9) BH8 -				pop5f FO5f
4. D Ortiz DH						HR9 RBI <>				FO8				FO7
5. A Beltre 3B						Purcey pop6 FO6				Ks /				FO8 /
6. J Drew RF						FO9 /						FO7
7. B Hall 2B								Ks				GB4 4-3
8. J Saltalamacchia C								FO9				2BH9 <>
9. D McDonald LF								BH7 --				FB8(9) 3BH8 RBI ---
														TOTALS


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Runs
Hits
Errors
LOB

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p/s	ERA
John Lackey SP	8.0	8	3	3	1	4	1	98-66	4.54
John Papelbon RP (L)	0.1	4	3	3	1	1	0	19-11	3.26
Daniel Bard RP	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2-1	1.89


Toronto Blue Jays	1	2	3	4		5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. F Lewis DH									2BH7 <>				FO9		sac FO8 RBI /
2. Y Escobar SS									BH7 #1 2.3 x				GB6 6-3 /
3. J Bautista RF									DP 6-4-3 #1 3,h x						HR9 RBI <> Lackey out
4. V Wells CF									GB5 5-3 /						2BH9 <>
5. A Lind 1B pr 9th D Wise											2BH8 --				BH8 RBI <>
6. A Hill 2B					/						GB6 6-3				Wise sb GB1 BH1 #5 2,3 <>
7. T Snider LF							K				FO8				Ks
8. E Encarnacion 3B							pop3 FO4				FO8 /				2BH7 RBI --
9. J Molina C ph L Overbay 9th							FO9 /						LD6		BB - P-bon out
															TOTALS


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Runs
Hits
Errors
LOB

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p/s	ERA
Brad Mills SP	4.1	7	4	4	2	7	2	99-61	5.28
David Purcey RP	1.2	1	0	0	0	1	0	22-14	2.81
Jason Frasor RP	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	19-12	4.09
Scott Downs RP	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	13-8	2.28
Keven Gregg RP (W)	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	16-9	3.50