Over the Scorekeeping Moon!
October 29, 2025
You know what I learned tonight? How much I love scorekeeping. I knew I loved it for all the years I did it, but I’d forgotten how much. I’m sad there are only two more (if the Dodgers get lucky) games in the World Series and then baseball season is over for the year.
Scorekeeping checks all my ocd boxes: counting things, documenting every little thing, totaling things, making columns and rows match.
Plus? Baseball.
Found a scorebook with some blank pages (this one was from July 2015.. ten years ago) at the top of a stack of scorebooks, stats, rosters, tournament programs, newspaper clippings, certificates, and a couple of varsity letters. The stack was on top of a file box that was also filled to the brim with baseball documentation and memorabilia dating back to T-Ball days. Well organized and labeled, I might add.
(Just to underscore the depth of my documentation fetish.)
From tonight’s game (the 5th of a, hopefully, seven game series) between the LA Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. The Jays won and now lead 3-2 in the series. The teams travel to Toronto and resume play on Friday the 31st (Halloween, I just realized!).
Things of beauty, no?
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