Different Scoring Notations in Baseball

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"Now we're going to take a look at the different types of scoring notations that you might put on your scorecard. We'll go a little bit more into depth about what they are, but right now we'll discuss why you need them. The scoring notation let's the person who is reviewing the scorecard later on know what happened during a particular at bat. Now again, you've got your lineup card, your numbers 1-9 batters are going to go in this section here. And in this little section here, this is how you would notate if they had a hit or they reached base to become a runner -- by drawing a line about how far they went, with these little symbols right here -- filling in those types of things. Now, if the batter is out -- the batter reaches the base without the virtue of a safe hit -- then you're going to put a different type of notation here -- a passed ball, a wild pitch, an E6 means that there was an error on the field. He may reach on a fielder's choice, which means that the fielder received the ball in time to get the batter out, but chose to throw to another base. A hit by pitch is when he's struck by a pitch. There are intentional walks or catcher's interference, or INT -- that's if the batter swings the bat and makes contact with the catcher, he gets a free base. And also stolen base -- you notate that with an SB. And then this is how you notate an out -- with the KC, strike out, a KS is a strike out swinging, this is a put out to the 6, which is a put out to the shortstop, a 6-3 is a hit on the ground to the shortstop who then throws it to the first baseman for an out, a 6-4-3 double play is a result of two outs, hit to the shortstop, thrown to the second baseman, then to the first baseman, to return two outs. INT in this case means interference by the fielder. That means that the batter made contact with the fielder which you can't do, so you're automatically thrown out. A sacrifice bunt is notated with a SAC -- SAC, that means that you've laid down a hit, sacrificed yourself and gotten out, allowing someone else to come in. And then a sacrifice fly is when you pop the ball up in the air and get yourself out to advance the runner. Those are just a couple of the different types of scoring notations. We'll go into detail about the different types and the different situations in our next segment."