feat(baseball-scoreboard): game activity pop-ups for the live scorebug (1.56.0)

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Stacked on #605 (celebrations and scorer card); the base branch is that PR's, so this diff is only the pop-ups. GitHub retargets it to main when #605 merges.

What

Hockey has a game-activity banner; baseball had nothing like it. This adds one: a one-line banner along the bottom of the live scorebug for the plays between runs, held for a few seconds, then faded back to the scorebug.

• Harper SINGLE! Top 8th
• Acuna Jr. STEALS 3RD Bot 1st
• McFarlane IN RELIEF Bot 7th
• also strikeouts, walks, double plays, errors, and (at the top detail level) outs and sacrifices

Runs are left to the celebration and the scorer card, as hockey leaves goals: a play flagged scoringPlay is never a pop-up.

How

ESPN's baseball summary has one row per pitch plus a play-result row per at-bat ("Harper singled to left, Turner scored."). Checked against the real PHI @ ATL summary from 2026-09-30 (623 rows): the pop-up is built from the result sentence, pitch rows and lineup bookkeeping are ignored, and none of the game's 7 runs came through. It polls the same summary the celebration and scorer card read, for the game on screen, in a thread, and shares the celebration's fetch when a run has just scored. The render path only reads a queue.

• A first look at a game only records where the feed is, so joining mid-inning replays nothing; a poll that loses its place re-baselines.
• A burst keeps the newest three; a pop-up for a game the rotation has left is dropped.
• Wording ladder: a smaller font is tried before any word is given up, then the surname, the short label (1B, SB, K), the short inning (T8), then the inning itself. Accents are folded (Acuna) because the 4x6 face has no n-tilde.
• Text fades rather than the banner cross-fading, so two lines of text never overlap; steady between frames at 1 FPS.

Settings (per league, MLB and NCAA only; MiLB has no play data)

display_options.show_game_activity (off), game_activity_detail (highlights; or hits_and_steals, everything), game_activity_dwell_seconds (6), game_activity_fade_seconds (3). Only on panels 32 px tall or more. One extra ESPN request per live update for the game on screen. Forwarded by _adapt_config_for_manager; README, schema and CHANGELOG updated.

Files

New: baseball_activity.py, test_baseball_activity.py. Edited: baseball.py (mixin, poll in update(), one call before the frame is presented), baseball_celebration.py (_fetch_summary takes a timeout), manager, schema, README, CHANGELOG, manifest 1.55.0 -> 1.56.0, plugins.json. sports.py is untouched.

Tests

• New test_baseball_activity.py: extraction, wording, queue and poll rules, fade, every panel size 64x32 to 256x64, and a pass over the real ESPN game when $TMP/sum.json is present.
• Every other baseball test passes except test_odds_placement, which fails the same way on origin/main.
• Schema-settings, settings-reach-the-manager, version-bump, registry and module-collision checks pass.
• Not run: core check_plugin.py on this branch, or against a live game.

Known limits

The banner covers the scorebug's bottom row (the team abbreviations and scores in the corners) while it shows, as hockey's does.

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