Baseball Scoring

Baseball Scorekeeping is a way to document and record the details of a baseball game. Each game has an Official Scorer or Official Scorekeeper. The Official Scorer is responsible for recording all of the events of the game. Scorekeeping is usually done on a printed scorecard and, while official scorers must adhere precisely to one of the few different scorekeeping notations, most fans exercise some amount of creativity and adopt their own symbols and styles. Of course, now, there are software programs available that work very well if you can bring a laptop to the game.

The Official Scorer makes judgment calls about how to interpret certain circumstances as they relate to the rules (hits vs. errors, etc), but does not have an influence on the final score or the winner and loser. The official scorer must have an in-depth knowledge of the game of baseball and also be intimate with the league rules.

There is no definitive system for baseball scoring but the basics are universal. With the advent of computers and statistic organizations, bseball scorekeeping has taken on a life of it's own.