How to Keep Score for Baseball

Video Transcript

"The question is asked: how to keep score in baseball. Well, basically, usually the visitor is listed first and the home team is listed second on the box scores. Basically, we have the offensive team that hits in the same batting order each time. In the little blocks with the baseball field on it, the little baseball diamond, you literally mark in what happens with that batter. If the batter gets a hit, you mark the hit block and you draw a line from home to first on the little baseball field. If he advances to second, third and all the way to home, consequently, then we color in that block and that denotes that a run has scored. They list it as runs, hits and errors in that order, so if a team scored seven runs on four hits and three errors, it would read seven-four-three in the box score. Sometimes they'll add home-runs, winning pitcher and guys that get saves and other information like that, but basically, whether you look on the scoreboard or you look in the score book, you're going to find the visiting team on top, the home team on the bottom, and then runs, hits, and errors to denote what the score was and how they scored the runs."