FOR FANS WHO STILL KEEP THE BOOK
The scorecard they hand you at the gate is fine for about three innings. Then it is folded in half, damp, and missing a lineup change. Score on your phone instead.
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Keeping score at a big league game is a slightly different job than scoring a Little League game. The pace is faster, the substitutions come in waves late, and there is a scoreboard telling you things your kid's game never did.
What does not change is why people do it. Scoring makes you watch the game. You notice the shift, the pitch count, the pinch hitter warming up. Everybody around you is looking at their phone anyway. At least yours has a scorecard on it.
Section, row, and seat go on the game along with the final score. Years later that is the part you will want.
Every game you log adds to your stadium list. If you are working through all thirty, this is your count.
Today's MLB games with current inning and score, pulled from the official MLB Stats API. Useful when you are following two games at once.
Games attended, runs witnessed, teams seen, most-visited park, close games and blowouts. Your year, in numbers.
Not every game at the park is a game you want to keep the book for. Sometimes you are there with people who want to talk to you.
Quick Log takes thirty seconds: teams, final, park, seat, a note about the game. It still counts toward your stadium list and season stats.
Full Scorecard is the real thing, when you want it. Lineups, every at-bat, pitcher lines, extra innings if it goes long. Hits and at-bats total themselves, so you are not doing arithmetic on the drive home.
Start with how to score a baseball game and the scoring symbols reference. You can learn enough in ten minutes to get through nine innings.
Browse all guidesSign up free before you head to the park. Fill in the lineups during batting practice and you are ready for first pitch.
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