Fix baseball custom fonts and abbreviation KeyError

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Summary

• Adds custom font support to baseball game renderer (was hardcoded unlike basketball/football)
• Fixes BDF font loading (ImageFont.load instead of truetype)
• Fixes KeyError when NCAA baseball teams lack abbreviation field in ESPN API (uses .get() with fallback)
• Fixes odds ticker y-position font mismatch

Supersedes #61 which is a subset of these changes.

Test plan

• Verify NCAA baseball games render without KeyError
• Verify custom fonts load correctly in baseball game renderer
• Verify odds ticker y-position alignment

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Release Notes

• New Features

  • Added customizable font options for scoreboard text elements (scores, team names, status, details, and rankings).

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of incomplete team data by deriving team abbreviations from team names as a fallback.
  • Enhanced font loading error handling with automatic fallbacks to default fonts.
  • Fixed odds layout calculation for accurate vertical positioning.

• Chores

  • Baseball Scoreboard updated to v1.5.6; Odds Ticker updated to v1.1.3.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR updates version metadata for the baseball-scoreboard and odds-ticker plugins, introduces defensive fallback logic for extracting team abbreviations in both plugins, and adds configurable font loading with enhanced error handling to the baseball scoreboard renderer.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Metadata and Versioning plugins.json, plugins/baseball-scoreboard/manifest.json, plugins/odds-ticker/manifest.json	Updated plugin versions: baseball-scoreboard from 1.5.5 to 1.5.6, odds-ticker from 1.1.1 to 1.1.3. Added new version entries to manifests with release date 2026-03-29 and ledmatrix_min 2.0.0. Updated last_updated timestamps.
Defensive Team Abbreviation Extraction plugins/baseball-scoreboard/baseball.py, plugins/odds-ticker/manager.py	Modified abbreviation extraction to use defensive fallback logic: attempts team.abbreviation, falls back to first 3 characters of team.name, or defaults to "?" if both are missing. Prevents crashes and ensures deterministic placeholders for downstream filtering and display.
Baseball Scoreboard Renderer Enhancements plugins/baseball-scoreboard/game_renderer.py	Introduced configurable font loading via config["customization"] for six font types (score_text, period_text, team_name, status_text, detail_text, rank_text). Refactored _load_fonts to delegate to new _load_custom_font helper supporting .ttf/.otf/. bdf formats with fallback chain. Expanded error handling with exception logging and multiple fallback attempts. Adjusted odds layout to use detail font for vertical positioning calculation.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~25 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• fix(baseball): add custom font support and fix odds font mismatch #62: Modifies the same functions (baseball._extract_game_details, odds-ticker._fetch_league_games, and baseball.game_renderer) with similar defensive abbreviation fallback improvements and font loading enhancements.
• Sports scoreboard parity — SportsCore for baseball, fixes across all 5 plugins #28: Updates team abbreviation extraction logic in both baseball.py and odds-ticker manager using comparable defensive fallback patterns.
• fix(baseball): center score between logos, remove abbreviations #60: Alters team abbreviation handling and score rendering in the baseball plugin, with overlapping concerns around abbreviation-based logic and rendering adjustments.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'Fix baseball custom fonts and abbreviation KeyError' directly summarizes the two main changes: adding custom font support to the baseball renderer and fixing the KeyError for missing team abbreviations in NCAA data.
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[ChuckBuilds]

Closing — these changes are already on main.