People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. -Roger Hornsby
Spoiler-free tagging of old MLB games to guide you in what's fun to watch
For folx in the UTC±2 TZ, MLB games are generally inconveniently late, and you often end up watching them the next day. Maybe it's a good day and the Jays are on a winning streak, maybe they're travelling today and you just want to watch A game, ANY game, something fun!
This repo provides a script to tag games based on which ones might be interesting to watch, depending on your mood. By default it'll fetch the box scores for yesterday and tag them based on several criteria in a way that should be spoiler free.
$ python what2watch.py
Boston Red Sox @ Chicago White Sox high-scoring, big-inning, comeback, extra-innings, flip-flop
San Francisco Giants @ Chicago Cubs high-scoring, big-inning
Texas Rangers @ Oakland Athletics big-inning, comeback
Toronto Blue Jays @ Baltimore Orioles high-scoring, comeback
New York Yankees @ New York Mets big-inning, comeback
Toronto Blue Jays @ Baltimore Orioles high-scoring, big-inning
Washington Nationals @ Pittsburgh Pirates high-scoring
Cincinnati Reds @ St. Louis Cardinals comeback
Colorado Rockies @ Philadelphia Phillies
Milwaukee Brewers @ Cleveland Indians
Tampa Bay Rays @ Detroit Tigers
Los Angeles Angels @ Houston Astros
Kansas City Royals @ Minnesota Twins
Miami Marlins @ Atlanta Braves
San Diego Padres @ Los Angeles Dodgers
Arizona Diamondbacks @ Seattle Mariners
Alternatively you can provide a specific date:
$ python what2watch.py --date 2021-04-01
Providing the --json flag returns machine readable data:
$ python what2watch.py --date 2021-09-11 --json
[
{"home_abbr": "CHC", "away_abbr": "SFG", "home_name": "Chicago Cubs", "away_name": "San Francisco Giants", "time": "1:20 p.m. Local", "tags": ["high-scoring", "big-inning"]},
{"home_abbr": "OAK", "away_abbr": "TEX", "home_name": "Oakland Athletics", "away_name": "Texas Rangers", "time": "1:07 p.m. Local", "tags": ["big-inning", "comeback"]},
...
]
| Tag | Metric |
|---|---|
pitchers-duel |
final score ≤2 for both sides |
high-scoring |
Combined run count over 15 OR one side ≥ 9 |
comeback |
One side is behind by ≥4 and then comes within -1 point or beats |
big-inning |
More than 5 runs in one inning |
flip-flop |
Lead changes more than 3 times |
extra-innings |
>9 innings |
extra-extra-innings |
≥13 innings |
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