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Box scores/line scores for baseball

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by CharBroiled, Mar 12, 2013.

  1. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty New Member

    hitting to the right side, hitting a sac fly, drawing a bases-loaded walk, etc., is not luck. sometimes people over think shit in their need to look/feel intelligent.
     
  2. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    I was just being an asshole with my comment.
     
  3. JRoyal

    JRoyal Well-Known Member

    Man, you'd think people would be used to that from you by now. ;)
     
  4. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    I think RBIs were killed by the Committee for Everybody Gets Oranges Slices.

    But I'll like RBIs forever.
     
  5. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Forget full boxscores. Just taking a linescore over the phone takes long enough.

    Here is our format:

    District x-xA
    Winner xx, Loser xx
    Visitor xxx xxx xxx — x x x
    Home xxx xxx xxx — x x x

    Visiting starter, reliever (inning) and catcher; home starter, reliever (inn) and catcher. W — Winner (x-x). L — Loser (x-x). Sv — Saver if any (x). 2B — None. 3B — None. HR — None.
    Records — Visitor x-x, y-y; Home x-x, y-y.
     
  6. baddecision

    baddecision Active Member

    Lots and lots at my prior gig (more than 100 schools). We stopped running comprehensive roundups, so we sold the staff and the coaches on the idea that maximizing box scores was important, and both responded pretty well. The coach response rate exceeded my target.
     
  7. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    That's the exact format I grew up on and used for years in newspapers.

    As for why catchers are listed in line scores: Going back to the early days of professional baseball, a good catcher was equally as important to a team's success as a good pitcher. If a pitcher did not trust that his barehanded, protection-less catcher could handle his stuff, he would have to let up (both in velocity and in breaking balls.) All the best teams of the 1860s, '70s and '80s had a great catcher as well as a great pitcher. So listing the catcher in the line score with his pitcher — the battery — was an important detail, and it's remained that way through the years.

    Good interview recently on Deacon White's selection to the HOF with Peter Morris that goes into more detail on the early catcher as American folk hero: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/05/166580526/how-history-created-the-cult-of-the-catcher
     
  8. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    Save is the only thing extra from when I was growing up. It pretty much covers everything.
     
  9. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Crap City must be a juggernaut, since they beat a team with the a lineup of the Babe, Gehrig, and DiMaggio and Cy Young pitching.
     
  10. baddecision

    baddecision Active Member

    They had Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, but they were suspended after Senior Prank Day.
     
  11. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty New Member

    just like wins mean jack shit for pitchers ... yet nearly every pitcher with a shit-ton of wins shares one thing in common: they were great pitchers. imagine that. (of course throw out the guys who simply hung around forever and backed into 300.)
     
  12. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Homers really suck, because those are selfish RBIs.
     
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