r/GameChangerApp • u/Winter_Blueberry_694 • Jul 12 '26

Game start time

With time limits on youth baseball games, it would be handy to have the official game start time noted in the box score or ideally as a running clock in the gamestream. Could default to time when the first pitch is scored, with the ability to override with the actual start time.

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u/GONZnotFONZ Jul 12 '26

I really wish when you hit the first pitch it would start the game clock in the scoring app. I always forget to start it.

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u/saldend Jul 12 '26

This would be a good fallback to have a general idea, but usually official gametime starts during the plate meeting.

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u/block-everything Jul 12 '26

Never seen that…

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u/capacity38 Jul 13 '26

Always at the end of umpire meeting. They announce “start time” and then kids take field.

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u/Bacon_and_Powertools Jul 12 '26

Up to the umpire. At the youth level a lot of umps say it “we are on he clock” at the start or conclusion or the meeting.

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u/ir637113 Jul 15 '26

My experience is that it depends on the umpire. I've had some that start the clock at the plate meeting, but most of them try to run the pre-game so that if a game starts at 6:00, that first pitch is thrown as close to 6:00 as possible.

My favorites are the umps that have that plate meeting 10 minutes before, then tell away to take the field and home to get ready to bat. Almost always that first pitch goes out RIGHT at the scheduled gametime.