All Games
Games scored by hand at the ballpark, matched up with the official record.
84 games
Weather: perfect! Also noted on the card: the Athletics have called Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Oakland home — now Sacramento, with Las Vegas next.
Sunday Night Baseball. Vineyard Vines program, 8x4x. Weather: beautiful. Bobby Williams was also at the game.
Weather: hot! 5 mph out to center.
Extra innings (10). 10th: Story threw out McCormick at home.
15,000 Dodgers fans in attendance. Weather: 85°, very humid, thunder/showers before the game, 3mph out to left. A rainbow appeared in the bottom of the 1st and 2nd innings.
Complete-game shutout: Crochet pitched all 9 innings.
1st inning: Nate Eaton's double should have been a HR — hit the ladder.
5th inning: Abreu hit an inside-the-park grand slam.
Weather: cloudy, light rain.
Weather: rain showers, 80 to 65F.
Happy Birthday Charles!
Weather: 60F, wind 20mph out to center.
Bob Ryan nearby (possible imposter).
Ezra ran the bases after the game.
Pivetta left in the 5th inning, 2-1 Padres, bases loaded no outs.
Tanner Houck left the game with 2 outs in the 6th inning with the Sox leading 2-1. Weisert allowed both inherited runners to score, plus more. Devers' error on Caballero's steal attempt allowed Siri to advance to 2nd base, and he scored the 4th run on a single.
Jackie Robinson Day — every player wore #42. Paul's 35th Birthday.
Start delayed until 7:41 by thunder and lightning (77°). Card notes the game should have been resumed sooner than it was after a rain delay.
Disability Awareness Night. In the 6th, Santana appeared to have struck out on a check swing but the umpires ruled "no swing." In the 9th, Mazara singled on a 3-1 count with the first baseman playing in - card notes he would have been out if the infield had been playing back. In the 5th, Holt was thrown out by 30 feet on a Hernandez blooper trying to score from first - poor baserunning by Bogaerts and Chavis on the Devers double play, but card notes it was not a triple play.
Card notes Barnes allowed 3 inherited runners to score. In the 9th, Betts hit what would have been a game-tying double, but it bounced into the stands for a ground-rule double, so the runner had to stop at 3rd instead of scoring.
Card notes umpire Sam Holbrook ejected Adam Jones for arguing a very poor check-swing/hit-by-pitch decision after Jones was hit by a pitch in the 5th inning.
David Ortiz hit his 498th career home run in this game, a three-run shot capping a four-run third inning.
Card notes umpire Jordan Baker ejected Orioles pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez for hitting Sandoval with a pitch, with no warning issued beforehand.
Card notes a delay expected for thunderstorms that never materialized. Card notes the game started late.
Went to extra innings - Grady Sizemore's walk-off single in the 12th drove in David Ortiz for the win.
Delayed 45 minutes by lightning; started 6th inning after a further delay for possibility of a thunderstorm. Clay Buchholz pitched a complete-game shutout.
Card notes the Astros as "(AL)" - 2013 was their first season in the American League after moving from the NL.
17-inning marathon - the scorecard runs to a continuation sheet for the extra innings.
Red Sox's last regular-season home game of 2011 - they closed out the season on the road at New York and Baltimore, capped by the September 28 collapse loss in Baltimore that eliminated them from playoff contention.
Game 2 of a day-night doubleheader (7:10pm start per the card) - the Orioles won the 1:05pm game 1 earlier that day 3-1; this scorecard is the nightcap, which the Red Sox won 18-9.
Independent Can-Am League game. Worcester played its home games at Fitton Field (on the Holy Cross campus) in 2010. No official online box score could be found (MLB Stats API and web searches don't cover the Can-Am League) - score is read directly off the scorecard.
Jon Lester started. Neither card's Team Totals box was filled in by the scorer, so the score here is the official MLB record (Orioles 2, Red Sox 14) rather than a hand tally.
Cape Cod Baseball League game. Kyle Seager (Chatham) later played for the Seattle Mariners. Hyannis' 2008 roster included Chris Dominguez, who tied the CCBL single-game home run record that summer, and Curt Casali, who went on to a decade-long MLB catching career. Cape Cod Baseball League game.
New York-Penn League (short-season A) game: Lowell Spinners (Boston Red Sox affiliate) at Vermont Expos (Montreal Expos affiliate). Aníbal Sánchez led the 2004 Spinners' staff (1.77 ERA, league-leading 101 strikeouts) en route to a long MLB career; Vermont's Jim Henderson also reached the majors, later closing games for the Brewers. New York-Penn League game.
Single-A Midwest League game (Battle Creek Yankees, NYY affiliate, at Dayton Dragons, Reds affiliate). Final score (Dragons 8, Yankees 2) read directly off the scorecard - no official record of this specific game could be found online (MLB Stats API and web searches don't cover it). Season statistics insert from the game program (Dayton Dragons and opposition/Battle Creek Yankees individual stats through games of 6/2), not a scored lineup page.
Tim Wakefield pitched 6 2/3 innings for the win.
Cape Cod Baseball League game, called a 1-1 tie due to darkness after 9 innings. No official MLB record exists for this game. Chatham's 2003 roster included future MLB players Chris Getz (later a big-league GM) and Jeff Frazier; Brewster's included future MLB infielders Brian Bixler and Tommy Manzella. Cape Cod Baseball League game, called a 1-1 tie due to darkness.
Played indoors (Olympic Stadium's retractable roof closed). Jake Peavy started for San Diego. Livan Hernandez pitched a complete game for Montreal (7+ IP shown, win).
Cape Cod Baseball League (summer collegiate wood-bat league) game. Score read directly off the scorecard - no official MLB record exists for this game. Cape Cod Baseball League game. Scored by Douglas Gobron. Chatham's Daniel Moore held Wareham to one run and Zane Carlson earned the save, per the Chatham Anglers' own 2001 recap - the team's first win over Wareham that summer. Future MLB pitchers Rich Hill and Brad Ziegler were both on that Chatham roster.
Carolina League (A) game: Lynchburg Hillcats (Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate) at Wilmington Blue Rocks (Kansas City Royals affiliate). Score read directly off the scorecard - no official record of this specific game could be found online. D.J. Carrasco and Rob Mackowiak were on that 1999 Lynchburg roster and both went on to multi-year MLB careers; Wilmington's roster included Royals first-round picks Dee Brown and Chris George, who also reached the majors. Carolina League (A) game. Scored by D.M.G.
1999 MLB All-Star Game. Pedro Martinez (Red Sox) named MVP, striking out 5 of the 6 batters he faced (including the first four in a row: Barry Larkin, Larry Walker, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire).
Scored by D. Gobron. Umpires Reed, Barrett, Miller, Tschida.