Tag Archives: Baseball

Digital Diamond Baseball

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The Boardgame Companion for this game just makes the tabletop experience feel so much better.

Between the player pictures and the (generic) play-by-play, I find it a better experience than scoring by hand (arthritis prevents me from doing that) or using another electronic scoring aid like BallScore.

BallScore served me well for over 10 years, and I’ll probably continue using it for the 1917 and 1921 replays, because those seasons are not available in DDB.  If they ever do, though, I may completely switch over to DDB.

Stay tuned!

1971: Giants Replay, Game 90

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Last game before the All-Star Break.

Final from Dodger Stadium:

Rookie Bernie Williams pinch hits a game winning grand slam in the top of the 12th.

The Giants go into the All-Star break with a 56-34 record one win better than they were in real life.

After the All-Star break, the Giants go to Cincinnati for a series against the Reds.

Stay tuned!

1985: Dwight Gooden Replay, Game 1

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As I said in the previous post, I have tried to start this shorter replay using BallScore, but it never calculated games correctly, so I decided to try Digital Diamond’s Boardgame Companion, and it worked pretty well.

The game gave me a running play-by-play commentary, which was nice.  I had a few moments of having to look stuff up, specifically how to enter plays into the game and relearning Inside Pitch Baseball.

I also had to figure out how to replace pitchers after pinch hitting for them, and after the game I corrected the team names and logos.

I’ll probably run this replay with this program, and my other existing replays using BallScore.

The boxscores come out about the same as in BallScore.

The result was the same for Gooden (no decision) but Jack Clark changed the outcome with a 2-run blast in the 11th inning.

Curbing my Enthusiasms

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As a side note, I seriously have to curb the number of ‘active’ projects I have going, and stick with games (and sports) that I like to play.

Baseball and racing will always have a spot in my rotation.  Soccer and hockey take the next tier, with football and basketball lower on my list.

I also have golf, tennis, boxing, wrestling and lacrosse in various forms.  Of those, I have to be in the right mood/mindset to play any of those.  None of those games are ones I consider playing with a long-term ‘season’ or replay.

And then there’s the least played games: bowling, roller derby, demolition derby, and some interesting fictional sports.  Someday, I keep telling myself.

I just started the 2013 SCRAM season, and the 2024 SCRAM/SCRAM-B sets arrived in the mail today.  Yikes.

So yeah, I need to curb my habit, considering the vast amount of other hobbies I have and would like to pursue as well.

Stay tuned, I guess…