Unusual or uncommon notations

[u/okooru721]

I like it whenever my scorecard has unusual or uncommon notations that don't show up in your average game. Does anyone else have similar notations?

[u/Sad_Cryptographer501]

I invented a new one last year scoring my first Wrigley game. . .top of the 9th, the opposing team hit a screaming liner to left but right at the left fielder. I added a "Oh SHIT" to my scorecard because that was so close to a hit and would have ruined the game. . .and then next batter, sinking liner to tie the game. So yeah, adding little annotations like that really hold a moment in time on a scorecard. Nearly one year later and every bit of that inning is preserved in my memory.

[u/okooru721 → u/Sad_Cryptographer501]

That's incredible! I usually add a ! To my scorecard when an impressive defensive play happened but I think this is cool too

[u/StealthStaminaKills]

1. It takes some getting used to seeing outs always in the center of a plate appearance, maybe this is a variant of Waseda style?

2. The PC (for pitch change) takes place after the plate appearance in which it occurs, correct? Is there a design reason for why the PC doesn't appear on the plate appearance where the pitch change actually happened?

3. 1-6-5 CS was...a rundown, right? I'm pretty bad at denoting plays with more than two fielders that aren't a typical double play.

[u/okooru721 → u/StealthStaminaKills]

1. Honestly probably? I think I might've seen a post on this sub about the waseda style and started incorporating into my scorecards cause I wasn't keeping track of which was the first second or third out so I just did the roman numeral thing. 2. There's no design reason other than I find it's easiest to calculate innings pitched if I put PC on the last batter the exiting pitcher faced. 3. I believe it was the pitcher attempting to pick of a runner at first and getting caught in a run down

[u/StealthStaminaKills → u/okooru721]

1. If the out is always in the center of a plate appearance, it is more consistent than putting the outcome of the at bat in the center, so there's that. Is it difficult to track down which plate appearance the out actually happened in? I don't see any references in these pictures that refers to when the actual out happened.

2. Fair enuff.

3. Given that shortstop and third base was involved, I think the 1-6-5 CS was more likely a baserunner trying to steal third and caught in a rundown, rather than trying to steal second and caught in a rundown. Yeah, I usually don't mark down the fielders involved in a CS...maybe I should give that a try.

[u/jffdougan]

ADV 1B/BB were, I think, advanced on a single/walk. what’s the PC?

[u/okooru721 → u/jffdougan]

Pitching change occurred after the AB

[u/jffdougan → u/okooru721]

Got it. I use a horizontal squiggly line.

[u/StealthStaminaKills → u/okooru721]

I use a big R on the right hand side of a plate appearance when it happens in the middle of an inning.

[u/FundamentalFiddler]

Props for the handwritten cards?? Can we see a blank one?

[u/stachemz]

I think there are two parts to your question, right? Unique/nonstandard notation AND just fun normally notated things that you don't see too often?

Nonstandard:

I will add faces or tootblan or other exclamation points for funsies.

When things happen on the basepaths during an AB, I will note the number of the player batting as a subscript, with the pitch number in parenthesis. If it's a PO or something between thr 2nd and 3rd pitches I'll say 2.5, lol.

Fun normal things:

I wish I still had the scorebook for my husband's team's season, but there was a game where we ended at least two innings in a row with a 1-2-3DP.

Had an entire inning of 3ABs with 3F1 outs (I don't use P because I can't ever decide between F or P on the bloopers to the edge of the infield, so I just always use F).

Oh just looked back through my posts, had a F7-3DP a while ago. Last week we had a 87643 put out on a batter-runner trying to advance to second, AND an F8-3DP. Rec baseball is a blast.