How to Score a Baseball Game
If you want to score a baseball game in a professional manner, this is not the guide for you. However, many friendly games of baseball or softball are played where the only score that matters is the total score for the team. If you are wanted to keep a score for such a game, this is the guide for you.
Prepare A Scorecard
A typical game of baseball has nine innings. This means that two rows of at least nine boxes should be drawn. It is good to have extras at the end in case of a tie after the ninth inning.
A good idea is to draw a small box in the top of each box so each inning can be scored. The scorecard will most likely look similar to a bowling score sheet, but not completely similar.
Take Score While the Game is Being Played
Of course, there are many complicated parts of keeping score for each player and each team in games. However, if you are only keeping score to see which team is the winning team, it is easy. Each box represents an inning.
Record the Outs: Each team gets three outs, so somewhere in the bottom of the box, find a place to tally the outs. Once three tally marks are made, the team does not get to bat again.
Record the Number of People that Got to Home Base: Somewhere in the top of the box, find a place to mark a tally mark whenever a person crosses home base. Keep adding tally marks (four in a row and a fifth one crosses the four, so it is easy to count by fives) until three strike marks are made. You can then write a number next to the tally marks or count the tally marks, erase then, and then write the number of tally marks that were made.
Do this for each team during each inning. Write the total number of runs in the bottom of the box. This means adding the runs in the top of the box to the number in the bottom of the previous box.
Determining the Winner
If a team has a high number of runs scored at the end of the ninth inning, that team wins. However, if the teams are tied, another inning is played. The team with the most runs wins. If there is still a tie, another inning is played. Innings are played until there is no longer a tie and a team wins.
If you want to score more complicated parts of baseball, visit About.com's guide on how to score a baseball game.
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Post a CommentGreat tips and advice. I have passed them on to friends...
excellent writing :) Thankfully, have not had to do this in some time.
Thanks!!