Remedial Whiffle Scoring

I need to let the various and sundry members of the Whiffle and Ale Club know that I do intend to take a vacation this Summer. I will not be in attendance for every game. On those occasions, someone will need to take ownership of the scoring. By that I mean the scoring during the game; I will be always happy to maintain the season's stats and update the current stats link on the blog page. No problem.

No, what I mean is, the scoresheet that comes to me AFTER the game needs to make at least a little sense. So here's what I can glean from the cuneiform I received today: The final score was 5 to 0, with The Commish, The Artist and The Bandit constituting the winning side. That I know. The losing team appears to have started out: Hans, Kim and Laura. It appears that Laura left early and that Brent took her place, but there were two innings when both were in the batting order.

I will need an eye witness to explain the rest of these anomalies:
- Why in the top of the third did Glen pitch FOUR outs? K, K, K, Single, Ground out?
- How did Peter give up the following sequence: Single, K, Double, Double, K, K - but surrender no runs in the fifth?
- Why is there a doodle of a flower along with Glen's third inning Double off Laura?

All that aside, the two most important things about Whiffle Scoring that I must convey are these:
1. Whiffle players DO NOT score; ghost runners score.
2. Ghosts do not have stats.

Thus, when one hits a Triple with a runner aboard, Eric, it is not important to figure out who scored, Peter. It is important to note that the Triple also resulted in 1 RBI, Glen. Your collective obsession with figuring out who scored made your third inning, ten batter, four run outburst off Laura nearly indecipherable.

But "good games" all around for those who came out on a blustery, cold morning. The stats are up to date.

Game of April 17, 2010

The absence of the Artist was felt by all this week. You see, Glen brings not only a resilient positive attitude and a tremendous NY/NJ accent: Glen usually draws the lines on the pavement. This week the Commish himself drew the lines.

As you may know recent “off the field” (but still on the pavement) scandals have brought the Whiffle and Ale League undesired press coverage. The Commish, looking to distract the fans from these matters, decided to crank up the offense. Mr. Commish made the friendly confines of Nance Bradds Park even friendlier by pulling in the doubles line by approximately 4 to 5 feet.

The game commenced with no notice of the forgiving arrangement. The first realization came from Stats Lindsay’s RBI double in the first off Baker. It was at this point that Ben revealed that he is a keen study of our league stats (NOW UPDATED THROUGH 4/17/10). You see, Ben knew (by poring through the data) that Stats had NEVER before struck an extra base hit, and that this moment just “felt wrong.” Indeed, all agreed that had the field been a Cebulash original – Stat’s hit would have been a single.

Alas, the Commish’s juicing of the field did not result in too great an offensive explosion:
HOME (Brent, Hans, Kim, Stats, Commish) 6
VISITOR (Tim, Laura, Dave (R-OH), Ben, Eric) 2

The Visiting runs were courtesy of a 2 run, opposite field blast by Tim “Home Run” Baker – who has hit or pitched both round trippers hit this season.

TWIW Notes:

New guy: a hearty welcome to Seokhyun (“call me Kim”) Kim – a 2 for 6, 3 RBI debut!

Inside the Stats: In a Goliath v. Goliath match up we had top batter “Home Run” Baker in the box against leading Cy Young candidate Hans Ha. Tim was 1 for 2 (a single) against Hans today, and is 1 for 3 for the season against the fireballer.