How Do I Fill Out a Baseball Scorecard?

Video Transcript

"I'm Mickey Hiter with Sandlott baseball. The question was asked how to fill out a score book, a baseball score book. The first thing you need to do is secure a baseball score book much like this one, almost all of your sporting good stores carry these, they're very common. Also, you need to get the starting line up from both teams so you can fill out the column where the players go, and what position they play, and what batting order they're in. Because it's mandatory in baseball that you follow the batting order each and every time the team returns to the offensive side of the field. Then also, you need to learn how the little blocks in here work. There's little baseball diamonds on each one of these little rectangles, or squares, and these are to mark the progress of the base runners. Each time a base runner advances to the next base, you make the little line that corresponds between home and first, first and second or whatever. And if they completely circle the bases, whether they go to first, second, third, and then score, then you simply color in that block and that shows that a run scored. There's little blocks in here for the outs that are, that take place, there's also little blocks in here that show where they hit the ball. So you simply draw a line if it's a fly ball, you draw an arch line if it's a line drive, you draw a straight line, and that marks where the ball was hit and what happened. If the ball is hit to the third baseman and he throws the guy out at first, then that would be, what, five to three, and that would result in an out and then you fill in the little circle there where it marks that's the first, second, or third out. And basically, you progressively go from inning to inning as the game progresses until the games completed. Just get you a score book much like this one, look it over carefully, and I think you'll be able to figure it out pretty easy, but in general and in short, that's how you use, to score a game in a baseball score book."