That Juan Soto Run-down, Though

<p>Pencils and scorecards are ready for Part 2 of “Scorekeeping with Blake.” Our brave teacher leads us through basic scoring notations and <a href="http://baseballscorecard.com/downloads/Scorecard-v.pdf">setting up our scorecards</a>, and suddenly we are re-living the Nats/Brewers Wildcard game. It takes so much longer to score that <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1246970538381148161">Juan Soto run-down</a> in the 8th than it does to <a href="https://twitter.com/Nationals/status/1246098728001429504">watch it happen</a>. Blake assigns us homework of scoring the <a href="https://www.mlb.com/tv/g565964/v1bfed53e-4530-4a5f-b89a-d5f5ea7ae46b#game=565964,tfs=20190903_230500,game_state=preview">September 3rd Nats vs. Mets game</a>, to be graded on the next episode.</p><p><br></p><p>After a brief Sports Movie Review conversation in which Pottymouth name-checks <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050383/">Psycho</a>, and Patti defends <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477095/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0">quiz shows</a> as a sport, we go back to actual baseball. The <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28993623/bryce-harper-steven-matz-latest-mlbers-contribute-virus-relief">Harpers</a>, the <a href="https://www.mlb.com/rockies/news/daniel-murphy-family-donation-to-minor-leagues">Murphys</a>, the <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1246497302564364288">Upton-Verlanders</a>, and <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/steven-matz-donation-nyc-coronavirus-first-responders">Steven Matz</a> are all using their paychecks for good in the community in these tough times, and <a href="https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/04/01/shin-soo-choo-texas-rangers-donation">Shin-soo Choo </a>is personally augmenting the MLB allowance of the minor leaguers in the Rangers system. <a href="https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/04/02/hinch-luhnow-suspensions-fulfill-canceled-season">AJ Hinch and Jeff Luhnow</a> may finish their suspensions with not a single game being played in the interim, or they may be suspended to infinity, depending