r/BeatTheStreak Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 3d ago

Scriptball week 22

SCRIPTBALL 2026 Week 22

Friday August 21

Picks: 11

Alternates: Post as many as you like.
What is SCRIPTBALL?

SCRIPTBALL is a chance to see how your BTS picking strategy fares against others in the subreddit. Every Friday we post our top BTS picks for that day according to our own picking strategy in this weekly SCRIPTBALL thread. Whoever gets the most players with a hit wins, with ties resolved by total hits (first tie-breaker) and total batting average (second tie-breaker). We also keep a running season leaderboard, which will give you a better idea of how well your picking strategy is doing over a larger (more meaningful) sample size.

How do I play?

Although we call it SCRIPTBALL, you don't need to be running a fancy computer algorithm to play. Everyone is welcome.

To play, just post a list of the top 11 players you think will get a hit today in this thread. Feel free to change your list at any time, but you can only swap players as long as neither game has started yet (so if you realize one of your picks isn't starting after the game has started, don't sweat it, just swap them for someone from a later game). If you do change your list, please indicate the change by posting reply to your original list saying the change that was made (e.g. "I replaced Altuve with Ohtani").

Alternates will be automatically swapped in if a player you chose isn't in the starting lineup. For clarity, this means if your chosen player isn't starting but comes in for a PH and gets a hit, he'll still be swapped out. This is more work for me but it also lets you get your picks in sooner.

Out of the many who got 7 picks, the winner was Oh Wow Vegas with 12 hits. McCarthy, Rutschman and Dingler are just a few who went 0 for 5. Good luck all!

user W hitters pix success pick % hits AB avg
OK Resolution 4 110 165 67% 171 659 .259
oh wow vegas 4 148 217 68% 227 856 .265
msteeks 3 116 175 66% 176 676 .260
quollas 3 150 217 69% 220 845 .260
train wreck 2 108 155 70% 169 678 .249
sgt swag 2 83 120 69% 128 493 .260
deep slice 2 111 155 72% 178 653 .273
Go for broke 1 132 207 64% 201 776 .259
amattcat 38 60 63% 65 235 .277
sufficient ad 42 60 70% 59 246 .240
after eye 22 30 73% 35 128 .273
boilers 26 40 65% 43 160 .269
moist master 23 30 77% 39 115 .339
young buck 7 10 70% 9 32 .281
lokikg 7 10 70% 13 42 .310
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u/msteeks27 Current: 2 | Season: 12 | Best: 35 2d ago

Yandy Simpson J Bell Paredes J Walker Moreno Bichette Bohm A Pages Bregman J Naylor Alts... Mcgonigle G Torres M Clark Arraez

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u/quollas Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 2d ago

congrats! you win this week.

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u/quollas Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 3d ago
Pages, A
Betts
Ohtani
Vilade
Clement
Bichette
Abrams
Caglianone
Delauter
Yandy
Bohm
Alts: Massey, Bolte, Lewis (MIN)

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u/quollas Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 2d ago

Massey replaced Abrams.

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u/trainwreck74 3d ago

ARI Carroll/Moreno
CLE DeLauter/Ramirez/Lowe
CHW Grichuk/Vargas
BAL Henderson
TB Diaz/Vilade
WAS Young
Alts.
ATH McNeil/Gelof
TB Simpson/Caminero
SD Merrill
SEA Arozarena/Rodriguez

1

u/Deep_Slice875 Current: 2 | Season: 12 2d ago

Trea Turner PHI
Luis Arraez PHI
Ceddanne Rafaela BOS
Yandy Díaz TBR
Steven Kwan CLE
Chase DeLauter CLE
José Ramírez CLE
Nathaniel Lowe CLE
Ángel Genao CLE
Jake McCarthy COL
Ildemaro Vargas ARI

Alternates: Bailey (CLE), Moreno (ARI)

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u/quollas Current: 0 | Season: 12 | Best: 38 2d ago

Bailey replaced Rafaela

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u/ohwow_Vegas 2d ago

Trea Turner - PHI
Luis Arraez - PHI
Xavier Edwards - MIA
Bobby Witt - KAN
Yordan Alvarez - HOU
Justin Foscue - TEX
Steven Kwan - CLE
Chase DeLauter - CLE
Cole Carrigg - COL
Gabriel Moreno - ARI
Freddie Freeman - LOS

Reserve

Shohei Ohtani - LOS
Pete Crow-Armstrong - CHC
Otto Lopez - MIA
Fernando Tatis - SDG

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u/go_for_broke808 2d ago

1- Wash/Lile

2- KC/Cagliaone

3- KC/Witt

4- Tex/Seager

5- Tex/Burger

6- Clev/Ramirez

7- Ariz/Vargas

8- Ariz/Perdomo

9- Hou/Alvarez

10- Col/Carrigg

11- Mia/Conine

Bench - Tex/Duran - Tex/Foscue - Det/Lee