How to Note Advanced Base runners on a Scorecard

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"Now this is an optional thing you can add to your scorecard just to be in depth about it. And this is how runners advance from time to time when the ball is either hit, or on a walk, or in various situations. It's not required that you fill out your scorecard with this, but it's optional so we'll cover it anyway. Let's take a look down here at our scorecard. We'll take a look at our first batter here, who reached base on a single. So what we have here, is we have a dark line, again drawn from home plate to first base, and we have it marked on the 1B. Now let's say that the next batter comes up and hits a sacrifice bunt, advancing this runner from first to second base. Okay, so what you're going to do is you're going to fill in your line here from first base all the way up to second base. All right. That let's us know that this runner had advanced from here to here, and you don't do anything if it's a sac because he didn't do anything himself. But you still have your first base marked -- he hit a single, but he eventually advanced on to second base. Now, also, let's say that the same runner advanced to first base on a single, and he steals second base. So what you're going to do -- once again, you're going to draw your dark line from first base all the way up to second base, and then you're going to write in the corner, SB, for stolen base. That means he advanced to second base on a stolen base. Now, again, obviously if the runner were to advance from second to third on a single, you would make a drawing from second base to third base, and if he scores, then you would bring it from third to home. This looks very similar to what would happen if he hit a home run, however when we're looking at this, we can see that this batter got a single, and that's what we have right there, it was a bunt single actually because we have our BT right there. He also stole a base. He stole second, and then he advanced on in to score a run, and you would tally the run and the rest of the statistics in your statistical category later on. Well that's just a few of the ways of how to score runners advancing in the game of baseball."