Chapter 2
Starting Up It's A Hit! - Filling In the Game and Lineup Views
When you start It's A Hit! and agree to the terms of the end user license, you are presented with a blank screen. This is the Game List form. It is blank because you have not entered any games yet.
Tap "New" to create a new game. This moves you to the Game form where you enter basic data about the game and you can see an overall box score of the current status of the game.
Fill in "World Series Game #2" in the game description field. Tap the date and select October 18, 1998 using the standard techniques for choosing a date on the Palm Pilot. Once you are done, here is how your screen will look.
Notice the two downward pointing arrows next to the team name fields. These are pop menu controls. Tap the upper on and select the Padres, then tap the lower one and select the Yankees.
Entering Lineups
Now you are ready to enter the Padre's lineup. If at all possible, you will want to enter the lineups before starting to keep score of the game so that you can easily navigate to a player's at bat and to help assign statistics to the correct player.
Tap the "Visitor" button. When you do, you are presented with a dialog
box asking you how many players are in the Padre's lineup. This dialog
is meant for youth and industrial leagues where there may be more than
9 players in the lineup. If for some reason you had fewer than 9 players
just enter 9 and simply do not keep score for any "extra" players.
Next, you are presented with the Lineup View. The LineupView appears the first time you tap on the Visitor or Home button for a game. You change between the Lineup View and the Runs/Hits/RBIs View using the popup menu in the upper right.
When you enter the lineup, It's A Hit! expects you to enter player positions as numbers using standard scoring conventions. Pitcher - 1, Catcher - 2, 1st Base - 3, 2nd Base - 4, 3rd Base - 5, Shortstop - 6, Left Field - 7, Center Field - 8, Right Field - 9. You can use your own conventions if necessary but the ones just given are standard.
Since you've entered the lineups in a typical batting order ahead of time, you can use the "Fill Lineup" feature to fill in the entire lineup with one menu command.
Once you select this you are prompted if you want to overight the existing lineup. Tap 'OK' and pow! your lineup is completely filled.
Since in this game there are designated hitters, you need to enter the designated hitter as a substitution for the pitcher. In this case, the starting pitcher is Ashby and Vaughn is the designated hitter for him. Now to substitute Vaugh as the DH for Ashby simply tap on Ashby's name in the lineup view then tap the Sub button. You'll be presented with the Substitution dialog.
Now tap the popup control next to the Name: label and select Vaughn from the popup menu. It's A Hit! recognizes the letters 'dh' as meaning a designated hitter. (Note that they are lower case letters).
Also select the substitution type as "Designated Hitter" and you are all set to go. Tap 'OK' and here's what you will see.
You can verify that your substitution was entered correctly by tapping the "3:" next to Vaughn's number to bring up the sustitution popup for this lineup number.
If you subsequently tap "Ashby", it brings up the substitution dialog again which you can see below. You can make edits here if you like. As you look at the current info you can see that Ashby, number 43, is a pitcher and was substituted for with no outs in the first inning by a designated hitter. Since this information is correct, tap cancel and your are ready to enter the Yankees lineup.
Entering data for the Yankees involves exactly the same process. You tap the "Done" button in the Padre's Lineup View, tap "Home" in the Game form, enter the default number of players (9) then "Fill Lineup" in the Lineup View's menus for the Yankees. When you are done, it will look like the screen below. Note that in this case, Hernandez is the starting pitcher and he has been entered in the lineup then substituted for by Davis, the designated hitter.
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