Get Basic Baseball Scorecard

Game Score is a metric devised by Bill James as a rough overall gauge of a pitcher's performance in a baseball game. ... Add one point for each out recorded, so three points for every complete inning pitched. Add two points for each inning completed after the fourth. Add one point for each strikeout.

When an out is recorded, you simply mark which out it is in the bottom-right corner of the scoresheet, and circle it. So if Atkins leads off an inning with a sharp grounder to short, you'd score it "6-3" and mark a 1 in the corner and circle it. Now let's look at the other side of the plate.

Baseball is a game played by two teams, with each team having nine innings in which they attempt to score runs. ... A run is scored by a runner reaching home base, having first touched first, second and third base. Only one runner is allowed on any one base at any one time.

Scoring System Each statistic your players accumulate is worth a certain amount of points. For example, a single hit is worth one (1) point, a home run equals four (4) points and a pitching win gives you three (3) points.

A hit-by-pitch occurs when a batter is struck by a pitched ball without swinging at it. He is awarded first base as a result. Strikes supersede hit-by-pitches, meaning if the umpire rules that the pitch was in the strike zone or that the batter swung, the HBP is nullified.

To score, a batter must hit the ball with the bat into the designated fielding area and make it around all four bases (before the fielding team is able to collect the ball and throw it to the base the batter is running to).

As a result: The force out, according to the rules of baseball, means that the batter is credited with a fielder's choice and not a base hit. Since no run may score on a play on which the final out of a half-inning is a force out, the inning is over and no run counts.

There are 4 ways to score a strikeout. The first is to simply mark a K in the scoring box if the player struck out by swinging the bat. A KS can also be used to score a strikeout swinging. To score a strikeout when the 3rd strike was called by the umpire without the batter swinging, put a KC or a backward K.