Field(s) Meaning 1 Date in the form "yyyymmdd" 2 Number of game: "0" -- a single game "1" -- the first game of a double (or triple) header including seperate admission doubleheaders "2" -- the second game of a double (or triple) header including seperate admission doubleheaders "3" -- the third game of a triple-header "A" -- the first game of a double-header involving 3 teams "B" -- the second game of a double-header involving 3 teams 3 Day of week ("Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat") 4-5 Visiting team and league 6 Visiting team game number For this and the home team game number, ties are counted as games and suspended games are counted from the starting rather than the ending date. 7-8 Home team and league 9 Home team game number 10-11 Visiting and home team score (unquoted) 12 Length of game in outs (unquoted). A full 9-inning game would have a 54 in this field. If the home team won without batting in the bottom of the ninth, this field would contain a 51. 13 Day/night indicator ("D" or "N") 14 Completion information. If the game was completed at a later date (either due to a suspension or an upheld protest) this field will include: "yyyymmdd,park,vs,hs,len" Where yyyymmdd -- the date the game was completed park -- the park ID where the game was completed vs -- the visitor score at the time of interruption hs -- the home score at the time of interruption len -- the length of the game in outs at time of interruption All the rest of the information in the record refers to the entire game. 15 Forfeit information: "V" -- the game was forfeited to the visiting team "H" -- the game was forfeited to the home team "T" -- the game was ruled a no-decision 16 Protest information: "P" -- the game was protested by an unidentified team "V" -- a disallowed protest was made by the visiting team "H" -- a disallowed protest was made by the home team "X" -- an upheld protest was made by the visiting team "Y" -- an upheld protest was made by the home team Note: two of these last four codes can appear in the field (if both teams protested the game). 17 Park ID 18 Attendance (unquoted) 19 Time of game in minutes (unquoted) 20-21 Visiting and home line scores. For example: "010000(10)0x" Would indicate a game where the home team scored a run in the second inning, ten in the seventh and didn't bat in the bottom of the ninth. 22-38 Visiting team offensive statistics (unquoted) (in order): at-bats hits doubles triples homeruns RBI sacrifice hits. This may include sacrifice flies for years prior to 1954 when sacrifice flies were allowed. sacrifice flies (since 1954) hit-by-pitch walks intentional walks strikeouts stolen bases caught stealing grounded into double plays awarded first on catcher's interference left on base 39-43 Visiting team pitching statistics (unquoted)(in order): pitchers used ( 1 means it was a complete game ) individual earned runs team earned runs wild pitches balks 44-49 Visiting team defensive statistics (unquoted) (in order): putouts. Note: prior to 1931, this may not equal 3 times the number of innings pitched. Prior to that, no putout was awarded when a runner was declared out for being hit by a batted ball. assists errors passed balls double plays triple plays 50-66 Home team offensive statistics 67-71 Home team pitching statistics 72-77 Home team defensive statistics 78-79 Home plate umpire ID and name 80-81 1B umpire ID and name 82-83 2B umpire ID and name 84-85 3B umpire ID and name 86-87 LF umpire ID and name 88-89 RF umpire ID and name If any umpire positions were not filled for a particular game the fields will be "","(none)". 90-91 Visiting team manager ID and name 92-93 Home team manager ID and name 94-95 Winning pitcher ID and name 96-97 Losing pitcher ID and name 98-99 Saving pitcher ID and name--"","(none)" if none awarded 100-101 Game Winning RBI batter ID and name--"","(none)" if none awarded 102-103 Visiting starting pitcher ID and name 104-105 Home starting pitcher ID and name 106-132 Visiting starting players ID, name and defensive position, listed in the order (1-9) they appeared in the batting order. 133-159 Home starting players ID, name and defensive position listed in the order (1-9) they appeared in the batting order. 160 Additional information. This is a grab-bag of information that might not warrant a field on their own. The field will be alpha-numeric, with tokens within the field separated by commas. At present only one token is supported: "HTBF" -- home team batted first. Note: if "HTBF" is specified it would be possible to see something like "01002000x" in the visitor's line score. 161 Acquisition information: "Y" -- we have the complete game "N" -- we don't have any portion of the game "D" -- the game was derived from box score and game story "P" -- we have some portion of the game. We may be missing innings at the beginning, middle and end of the game. Missing fields will be NULL.