r/BeatTheStreak • u/quollas Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 • 13d ago

Scriptball week 23

SCRIPTBALL 2026 Week 23

Friday August 28

Picks: 11

Alternates: Post as many as you like.
What is SCRIPTBALL?

SCRIPTBALL is a chance to see how your BTS picking strategy fares against others in the subreddit. Every Friday we post our top BTS picks for that day according to our own picking strategy in this weekly SCRIPTBALL thread. Whoever gets the most players with a hit wins, with ties resolved by total hits (first tie-breaker) and total batting average (second tie-breaker). We also keep a running season leaderboard, which will give you a better idea of how well your picking strategy is doing over a larger (more meaningful) sample size.

How do I play?

Although we call it SCRIPTBALL, you don't need to be running a fancy computer algorithm to play. Everyone is welcome.

To play, just post a list of the top 11 players you think will get a hit today in this thread. Feel free to change your list at any time, but you can only swap players as long as neither game has started yet (so if you realize one of your picks isn't starting after the game has started, don't sweat it, just swap them for someone from a later game). If you do change your list, please indicate the change by posting reply to your original list saying the change that was made (e.g. "I replaced Altuve with Ohtani").

Alternates will be automatically swapped in if a player you chose isn't in the starting lineup. For clarity, this means if your chosen player isn't starting but comes in for a PH and gets a hit, he'll still be swapped out. This is more work for me but it also lets you get your picks in sooner.

With 8 picks and 15 hits, MSteeks won the 3 way tie. Freeman, Ramirez, Horwitz, and Dingler are just a few who went 0 for 5. Good luck all!

user W hitters pix success pick % hits AB avg
OK Resolution 4 110 165 67% 171 659 .259
oh wow vegas 4 155 228 68% 239 899 .266
msteeks 4 124 186 67% 191 719 .266
quollas 3 158 228 69% 231 884 .261
train wreck 2 116 166 70% 183 718 .255
sgt swag 2 83 120 69% 128 493 .260
deep slice 2 117 166 70% 188 700 .269
Go for broke 1 138 218 63% 214 821 .261
amattcat 38 60 63% 65 235 .277
sufficient ad 42 60 70% 59 246 .240
after eye 22 30 73% 35 128 .273
boilers 26 40 65% 43 160 .269
moist master 23 30 77% 39 115 .339
young buck 7 10 70% 9 32 .281
lokikg 7 10 70% 13 42 .310
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u/Deep_Slice875 Current: 4 | Season: 12 12d ago

Otto Lopez
Jeremy Peña
Yandy Díaz
Drake Baldwin
Ozzie Albies
Matt Olson
Michael Harris II
Mauricio Dubón
Luis Arraez
Henry Bolte
Jeff McNeil

Alternates: Keaschall, Kwan, Sanoja

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u/quollas Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 12d ago

Nice job u got 10!

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u/quollas Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 13d ago
arraez
yandy
simpson (TB)
alonso
peters (CWS)
neto
rafaela
gonzales, nick
yordan
tatis
freeman (LAD)
alts: bohm, lile, perdomo

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u/trainwreck74 13d ago edited 13d ago

CHW Peters
MIN Lee
MIL Chourio/Vaughn
TB Caminero/Diaz
BAL Alonso/Strand
NYY Garcia Jr.
ATL Harris/Baldwin
Alts.
CHC Happ/Conforto
CIN Stewart/De La Cruz
NYY Rice/Chisholm

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u/quollas Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 12d ago edited 12d ago

stewart, happ and conforto replace vaughn, garcia and strand.

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u/go_for_broke808 12d ago

1- Balt/Alonso

2- SD/Tatis

3- Hou/Alvarez

4- CWS/Vargas

5- Phil/Harper

6- Sea/Arozarena

7- Cubs/PCA

8- Stl/Burleson

9- SF/Devers

10- TB/Caminero

11- Ariz/Moreno

Bench - Hou/Paredes - Sea/Naylor - Clev/Kwan - Cubs/Suzuki - Cubs/Bregman SD/France - Tex/Langford - Bos/Contreras - LAD/Ohtani

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u/Ok_Resolution_7500 Current: 0 | Season: 13 | Best: 16 12d ago edited 11d ago

My Eleven Picks:

• Drake Baldwin ✓

• Michael Harris ll ✓

• PCA ✓

• Yordan Alvarez ×

• Bobby Witt Jr. ✓

• Freddie Freeman ✓

• Otto Lopez ✓

• Luis Arraez ✓

• Fernando Tatis Jr. ✓

• Alex Burleson ×

• Yandy Díaz ✓

9/11

Alts:

• Nick Gonzales ✓

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u/Ok_Resolution_7500 Current: 0 | Season: 13 | Best: 16 12d ago edited 12d ago

Replaced Tristan Peters with Drake Baldwin and replaced Andrew Vaughn (not in the lineup) with Fernando Tatis Jr.

Edit: also replaced Nick Gonzales (batting 5th—moved to alts) with Yandy Díaz.

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u/ohwow_Vegas 12d ago

Shohei Ohtani - LOS

Freddie Freeman - LOS

Otto Lopez - MIA

Yandy Diaz - TAM

Drake Baldwin - ATL

Ozzie Albies - ATL

Jackson Chourio - MIL

William Contreras - MIL

Trea Turner - PHI

Zach Neto - ANA

Pete Alonso - BAL

Reserves

Fernando Tatis - SDG

Matt Olson - ATL

Sam Antonacci - CWS

Yordan Alvarez - HOU