For those not scoring at home

We keeping hearing that nobody fills out a scorecard while watching a baseball game anymore. Yahoo.com seems to assume everybody does it.

In the seventh inning of the Dodgers-Cubs game, Yahoo's live play-by-play describes an at-bat this way: "A. Soriano popped out to shallow right center."

Good thing I am keeping score -- for future reference in writing and editing -- and not counting on Yahoo for the details. Popped to shallow right center? Well, who caught the ball? The second baseman, center fielder, right fielder?

One reason a lot of people have stopped keeping scorecards is that these days a detailed play-by-play of every major-league game is archived on-line. (The best of this is found at baseball-reference.com.)

But that assumes whoever's typing the play-by-play pays attention to the details.