What does the "H" mean after a baseball pitcher's name in the boxscore?
539205
It means hold. It's when a pitcher comes into a game in a save situation and doesn't blow the save...but leaves before the game ends and doesn't get a save. This is the stat category to "judge" a setup pitcher.
1106300
it means da score after first half....\n\nexample...\n\nsay da score was at 2-0 after first half and da final score was 4-2\n it will show up like this\n\n4-2 (2-0)
361273
It might be kind of interesting if you kept track of HRs and Ks for both pitchers and hitters. As it is, it doesn't sound like much I would be interested in.
364856
It means infinity.  For example, a pitcher pitches one batter and that batter hit a homerun.  The ERA is calculated by (earn run / inning * 9).  Since the total innings is 0 (he didn't get anyone out), the ERA is INF, infinity.\n\nIt happens quite often.
604286
In the lower minors, they use the DH in all games.  In AA and AAA leagues, they use it unless both teams are affiliates of NL clubs.
1011027
That's a nickname he got in his native country, Cuba. It was used to indicate that they respected him as a very good pitcher.
1100821
It's called "the Oracle of Baseball", and it's on Baseball-Reference.com.  Link is below.
1056561
nbabest9 confuses baseball with basketball.  6 - 3 mean the shortstop threw to the first baseman for the putout.  The fielders are numbered to enable shorthand scoring thus:  Pitcher 1, catcher 2, first baseman 3, second baseman 4, third baseman 5, shortstop 6, left fielder 7, center fielder 8, right fielder 9.  \n\nFor example a fly out to right field is scored "F9."  Or "F-9."  Another example:  a double play on a grounder to second baseman who throws to shortstop, who then throws to first is simply scored "4-6-3."
1104678
They give you points for if you are winning the best of a category. For example, if you had ERA, and you had 4.12, and you were in first place, then you'd get one point. If somebody had passed you in ERA and had 4.02, then you'd lose that point. You need to pick the best batters and pitchers you can, but don't pick Albert Pujols right now.
1106112
Way back when letters were used on scorecards, instead of the way they do it today.  So A meant something, B meant something else, etc.  By the time it got to K...that was strikeout.  The rest of the scoring has changed, but K has stuck.
410638
Okay, this will seem a little bit confusing, since it involves mathmatical formulas. \nIn baseball statistics, slugging average (or slugging percent) (often abbreviated SLG or SA) is a measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats. \nThe formula is SLG= (h + d + 2t + 3hr) / (n_{AB}) \n- h stands for hits, d stands for doubles, t is triples, ht is homeruns, and n_{ab} is at bats for a certain player. \nHere's an example of slugging percentage:\nIn 1920, Babe Ruth was playing his first season for the New York Yankees. In 458 at bats, he had 172 hits, 36 doubles, 9 triples, and 54 home runs, which brings the total base count to (172 × 1) + (36 × 1) + (9 × 2) + (54 × 3) = 388. He had 458 at bats, so his total number of bases (388) divided by his total at-bats (458) is .847, his slugging average.\nAnother way of doing slugging percentage SLG = (s + 2d + 3t + 4h)/(n_{AB}), where s, are the number of singles; so that each base touched counts as one. \n(MLB.com and many major statistical sources often don't note the number of singles a player has hit both because they assume that the reader can quickly figure it out)\n\nSlugging average is actually extremely useful in finding many different statistical numbers for batters. Long after it was first invented, the slugging average gained new significance when baseball analysts realized that it combined with on-base percentage to form a very good measure of a player's overall production. Allen Barra and George Ignatin were apparently the first to combine the two statistics, multiplying them together to form what is now known as "SLOB" (Slugging × On-Base). Bill James applied this principle to his Runs Created formula several years later (and perhaps independently), essentially multiplying SLOB × At-Bats (the actual formula for Runs Created is: RC = [(Hits + Walks)(TotalBases)] / [AtBats + Walks]). In 1984, Pete Palmer and John Thorn developed perhaps the most widespread means of combining slugging and on-base average: OPS. "OPS" simply stands for "on-base plus slugging", and is a simple addition of the two values. While less accurate than SLOB and Runs Created, OPS is extremely easy to calculate, and has become the unofficial shorthand form of player evaluation in recent years.\n\nThe term "slugging percentage" is technically incorrect. SLG in fact measures an AVERAGE, not a percent
411345
It is HBP, and the ball is instantly dead. The count doesn't matter at the time. It's not a ball until the umpire calls it a ball, and he won't call it that because it hit the batter before it could get to the catcher.
373814
They are negated, a game and it's accompaning stats are not official until after the fifth inning.\nI hope that helps.
255431
On a baseball score card you can only enter one letter to represent what just happened. Most of the time it is the first letter, but in the case of strike, the s is already used for another action (sacrifice,I think) so they use the k from the word strike to represent it. It's been a while since I've seen a baseball score card, so someone may correct me.
142038
Same as MLB.\n\nSECTION 26. If a relief pitcher meets ALL of the following conditions, the\nofficial scorer should credit that pitcher with a save:\na. He is the finishing pitcher in a game won by his team;\nb. He is not credited with the win, and\nc. He meets one of the following conditions:\n(1) He enters the game with a lead of not more than three runs and\npitches at least one inning;\n(2) He enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat or on\ndeck, or\n(3) He pitches effectively for at least three innings.
1174238
From Major League rules;\n\n8.05\nIf there is a runner, or runners, it is a balk when --\n\n(i) The pitcher, without having the ball, stands on or astride the pitcher’s plate or while off the plate, he feints a pitch;\n\nIn HS baseball, and most youth sanctions , the rule is within 5 feet of the rubber.
547600
Easy enough:\n\nERA= (ER/IP)*9\n\nER = Earned Runs\nIP = Innings Pitched\nERA = average number of runs allowed per nine innings