How To Score Baseball

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Infield Fly

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The infield fly rule is scored in the situation where there are less than two outs, and there is a force at third base (runners on 2nd and 3rd) or home (bases are loaded) and there is a pop fly to the infield, in fair territory. The batter is declared out and runners can not advance during the sequence. The letters “IF” followed by the player who catches the ball are entered into the batter’s cell.

Base Path Violation

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A Base Path violation occurs when a batter or runner attempts to avoid a “tag” by running outside the base path. The letters “BV” are to be entered into the cell of the runner or batter violating the rule. Don’t forget to enter the out number appropriately.

Batting Around in an Inning

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After each player has batted once in an inning, an arrow -> is drawn at the bottom of the score sheet for that inning. The arrow signifies that the all the batters have batted once and the recording of their next at-bat, in the same inning, will continue in the next column provided.

Make sure to cross out the printed inning number on the column and replace it with extended inning number. Don’t forget to continue this for the rest of the innings.

Catcher’s Interference

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Catcher Interference occurs when the catcher physically interferes with the batter’s swing. An example of this is when the catcher is too close to the plate and the batter touches the catcher’s glove with the bat.

The play is ruled dead, all runners go back to their originating base. The batter is awarded first base. Then runner can advance one base if forced.

The letters “CI” can be used to note this occurrence.

Designated Hitter

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A Designated Hitter is a player who bats in place of the pitcher in a baseball game. The “DH” does not play the field and cannot be substituted for a fielder at any time during the game.

The letters “DH” are entered into the Position column in the player section of the scoresheet

End of an Inning

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When the team batting has made three outs, a slash is drawn diagonally across the bottom right hand corner of the last batter in the inning. However, be aware that if the last batter of the inning did not make the final out (for example: a base runner was caught stealing), that batter does not get credited with an at-bat and will lead off the next inning.

In this situation, the batter up last in the inning would be treated as if he never got up. And a diagonal slash is written across the bottom of the cell of the batter before him. In the cell of the runner caught stealing, the appropriate “Caught Stealing” data would be entered. And finally. the number “3” in a circle is entered in the top right hand corner (of the runner) to signify the “CS” caused the third out.

Substitutions

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When a player is substituted for, the new player’s information (Name, Position, Uniform number) is added to the line below the player for which he is being substituted. A vertical line is drawn on the last at-bat of the original player.

If the new player is replacing the previous as a pinch hitter, the letters “PH” are entered as the position of that player.

If the new player is replacing the previous as a pinch runner, the letter “PR” are entered.

Scoring Pitches

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Some score books provide a space to record balls and strikes. If you want to record balls and strikes simply use a dots to represent Balls and Strikes in each cell.

Use two rows with the top row for balls and the bottom row for strikes

The dots above signifies the batters count went to the 3 Balls and 2 Strike before the ball was hit.

You can use more than 2 strikes to note the actual # of pitches (just include the number of foul balls on the third strike). You can keep track of the number of pitches by counting them up at the end of each inning and keeping a rolling total.