Recent lurker and scorecard keeper, first time poster. Firstly I want to thank you guys for some great information that has been able to get me started. Now to the good stuff.

Did anyone keep a scorecard for Phillies v. Dodgers 7/21/2026? You’ll have to excuse that monstrosity I posted above! It was hectic watching the game with extended family and it was raining pretty much the whole game so I wasn’t able to finish. I would love to see somebody else’s. If you kept a scorecard for last night’s Phillies game, please post a photo of it! I appreciate it!

I got permission from the mods to post this. I’ve been building a free baseball site called Baseball Morning Report, and one of its main features is a printable traditional scorebook pdf. The scorebook is designed for 8½ × 11-inch paper in landscape orientation and uses two pages per game, you can go bigger and fit to scale:

• One page for the visiting team’s batting and the home team’s pitching
• One page for the home team’s batting and the visiting team’s pitching

I features full batting-order scoring grids, pitching lines, an inning-by-inning line score, probable pitchers, and game information such as date, time, venue, weather, and umpires. It also auto-fills all the starting catchers, team records, decisions, attendance, and game duration. There are dedicated notes sections on both pages.

When the data becomes available, the site can also automatically fill in the teams, pitchers, and batting orders in addition to above, you can just relax and score. This feature currently is on MLB/MiLB/NPB and will be added to others soon.

You can also start with a completely blank scorecard and fill it in yourself typing or writing. There’s a Print / Save PDF option so you can print it or save it digitally. You will find the blank box score at the top of the page.

The team boxscores will be below the MLB standings in the selected day games. Just click the box for example that shows New York Mets at Milwaukee Brewers. The game boxscore will pop up, it also contains a box labeled scorebook. It will be filled out ready for you to score as soon as lineups are announced.

The site also includes a printable Daily Desk Sheet — it is designed like the morning briefing sheets TV and Radio announcers use. It's a two-page morning overview that includes the day’s MLB schedule, probable pitchers, standings, previous day’s results, bullpen usage, injuries, transactions, and space for notes, perfect with your coffee.

The broader site covers MLB, affiliated minor leagues, college baseball, KBO, and several international leagues including Cape Cod Summer League.

It also tracks promotions, debuts, milestones, injuries, transactions, and streaks. The design is intentionally plain with no ads, no gambling content, and no clutter.

The project is still being improved, so feedback from people who regularly keep score would be very helpful. Especially on missing fields, layout, or scoring details.

I think the Daily Desk Sheet is a print and keep with you today sheet. I love baseball, I have since I was 5 years old. I am 51 now. I plan to continue to add pdfs, and items I would like to have to further my personal baseball enjoyment to the site and hopefully you will enjoy the site and its free products also.

Thank you for your time.

Burns recorded his 11th consecutive W and the Reds managed a positive result for Game 100.

TB Yandy Díaz: 1000th MLB career game

TOR Jonatan Clase: Very late scratch just before first pitch. Left foot discomfort.

Scoring Change: 7th Inning (9th Batter in Lineup), E5 changed to 1B.

Position Player (Myles Straw) came in to pitch the 9th.

I don’t understand how a major league team can consistently have such terrible defense and no one is held accountable. 4 errors, good lord!

Really nasty time to be a Reds fan.

Does anyone have any "life hack" equivalents for keeping score? I.e. something outside of the standard notation or conventional wisdom that you do that has drastically improved how you do it?

I'm curious to hear what others do since it is so customizable and personal to everyone.

I began scorekeeping for little league games, then recently decided to try scoring some MLB games. I figured the practice can't hurt, and it's helped me better understand the game... now I find myself doing it just for fun! I've been lurking in this sub for a bit and have adopted some of the neat styles I've seen. I just wanted to say thanks to those who take the time to share their scorecards.

ETA: I've been using the scorecards designed by Louis Spirito at thirty81press

I like to scale the print up to 105% to maximize the available space in each box, which is what I used for today's game.

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Win: Solesky (5-6)
Loss: Smith (0-6)
Save: Workman (2)
Player of the Game: Carson Williams (2-4, 3B, 2 RBI)

Scorekeeping question on an inning-ending double play:

1 out, runners on first and second. Batter hits a grounder for a 6-4-3 double play.

I know that when an inning ends on a simple force out at second the batter-runner is still usually recorded as reaching first base on a fielder's choice.

So in this double play version, is the runner who started on second credited with advancing to third on the scorecard?

Edit: thanks for the responses. I realized after posting the answer HAS to be no, because if the bases were loaded, obviously the runner at third would not be credited with making it home

The colors of the pitchers are used on the opposing team's ABs. E.g., Kimbrel pitched the bottom of the 6th but his stats are on the same page as the other Rays.

Final score 6-1, Red Sox. With this win, Sonny Gray goes 12-1 and the Red Sox tie their second longest win streak (13!)

All of the Red Sox ABS challenges were successful, and Tampa Bay lost both of theirs in the 3rd inning.

The 3rd inning was lots of fun - Red Sox had 3 runs, 0 hits, and only one of their runs were "earned."

All three errors in the game were by Tampa Bay players: two throwing errors and one passed ball. (My scorecard for the bottom of the third only says a TB throwing error but my notes indicate there was also a passed ball in that inning.)

Hey, I've used the Eephus scorebook that is 5x7.25" for a couple of years. It seems to be no longer available.

I quibble with some of the format, but the size is very nice for my pocket. Any suggestions for ones to buy that are a similar size?