. St. Nicholas [serial]. , and where no fielder cancatch it or field it in soon enough to preventhim from reaching his base I —the markis like an inverted T, thus: J_. Two suchstraight lines represent a two-base hit, three, athree-baser, and four, a home run. If the scorerwishes, he can show the direction of the hit bythe slant of the lines. Thus, \\ represents atwo-baggerto left field. There V are still finerdistinctions of recording the style of the hit, butthey are by no means necessary to the keepingof a satisfactory score. Here are some ofthem: 1 NyX- The first of these /—nv^^-^-^n I mean
. St. Nicholas [serial]. , and where no fielder cancatch it or field it in soon enough to preventhim from reaching his base I —the markis like an inverted T, thus: J_. Two suchstraight lines represent a two-base hit, three, athree-baser, and four, a home run. If the scorerwishes, he can show the direction of the hit bythe slant of the lines. Thus, \\ represents atwo-baggerto left field. There V are still finerdistinctions of recording the style of the hit, butthey are by no means necessary to the keepingof a satisfactory score. Here are some ofthem: 1 NyX- The first of these /—nv^^-^-^n I means an ordi-nary curving fly, the second, a boundinggrounder, the third, a pop fly high in the air,the fourth, a ball hit almost straight down tothe ground, and the last, a driving line hit. Unless he makes a hit, the only other way aplayer can reach first is through some mistake,or misplay, by the opposing side. If he gets to ,first through a base on balls, B B is set downin the first base corner, and the pass, as the. WARMING UP BEFORE THE GAME. vernacular callsit, is recordedagainst the pitch-er. E stands forerror, the num-ber of the guiltyplayer being putwith it. P Bequals hit bypitched ball. As for the waysin which a run-ner may advancefrom first — Wmeans a wildpitch, the letterbeing placed in the corner representing thebase reached through the pitchers mistake. Pis for passed ball. S B stands for stolenbase. If the batter strikes out, a big S is placedin the center of the diamond in the middle ofhis square, and a put-out given the the batter hits the ball in such a waythat he reaches first base himself, but forcesa player already there to get out trying to reachsecond, the letters F H, meaning forced hit,are set in the batsmans square. Double ortriple plays are noted thus: 5 — 6 — 3, mean-ing that the third baseman received the balland threw it to the short stop, who put out therunner at second, and then threw to the firstbaseman in time to retire the
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