There’s a lot of baseball on every day. When I’m looking for story ideas, I like to check box scores from the previous day, and see if there was anything interesting I didn’t see with my own eyes. If there is, I’ll cue up the video on MLB.TV to see how the numbers in the box score translated on the field.
For example, I didn’t have time to catch any of Wednesday’s Cardinals-Brewers game, a 6–0 win for the Redbirds. I did see, however, that Carlos Martinez spun a gem of a game, tossing 8 1/3 innings of shutout ball, striking out 10 while surrendering four hits and two walks.