Professor Andy Andres to Record Game Six of World Series
Andy Andres, senior lecturer of natural sciences and mathematics at Boston University College of General Studies, will record the sixth game of the World Series as the official datacaster for Major League Baseball. Boston.com covers the story:
Boston professor Andy Andres will record the final out of the World Series’ sixth and possibly final game.
No glove, bat or ball will be necessary. He will use only a pen, paper and a keyboard.
The Cambridge resident, who teaches at Boston University, Tufts and MIT, moonlights as a datacaster or scorekeeper, for Major League Baseball.
His job is to record everything that happens– each pitch, hit, error, foul ball, pickoff, obstruction call, you-name-it— and his scorekeeping is used to help create an official game box score as well as to update, in real-time, popular online game-tracking applications like MLB.com’s Gameday that fans monitor worldwide.
And, the longtime Boston Red Sox fan will be sitting in the Fenway Park press box Wednesday night as the league’s official datacaster for Game 6.
Boston.com writes that Andres teaches a a course on sabermetrics (the statistic analysis of baseball) and runs a program teaching the math and physics of baseball to local students. Read the full story at Boston.com.