Team Sports
Baseball score tracker, approved by everyone who played.
Hit a pitched ball, run the bases, and score by getting home. log8 keeps the score with the people you actually play. Record the winner or a draw, with the score if you kept it. The other players approve it, and your head-to-head record, group board and personal history build themselves.
Scoring
How log8 scores Baseball
Record the winner or a draw, with the score if you kept it.
- Any size from 1v1 up to 9v9. Uneven sides count too.
- Record the runs, or just who won.
- Add each player’s runs and home runs if you like.
- Draws count. log8 keeps the result, not every pitch.
The basics
How to play Baseball
The casual version of the rules. log8 shows the same guide in the app, on the game's page.
- Players9 a side in the field. Casual games use whoever turns up.
- How to winScore more runs than the other team by the end of the innings.
- The official gameA game is 9 innings, with extra innings if it is level. The WBSC governs international baseball.
- How groups differCasual games often play fewer innings, skip strikes or hit off a tee. Agree before you start.
- The pitcher throws and the batter tries to hit it. Three strikes and the batter is out.
- Four balls, which are pitches outside the strike zone, send the batter to first base.
- Hit the ball in play and run to first base. Keep going round if you can.
- A run counts when a runner touches all three bases and then home plate.
- A runner is out if the ball is caught in the air, or a fielder tags them or the base first.
- Three outs end a half inning. Then the teams swap.
- A home run is a hit over the fence. The batter and every runner on base score.
Play better
Baseball tips
- Watch the pitcher’s release point.
- Keep your eye on the ball as you swing.
- Fielders, get your glove down and in front of you.
- Know where you are throwing before the ball reaches you.
In the app
Logging a game in log8
- Pick the game and the playersChoose Baseball, then everyone who played. Friends without log8 can join as guests.
- Enter the resultRecord the winner or a draw, with the score if you kept it.
- The other players approveFriends on log8 get 48 hours to approve it, or tap Disagree if it is wrong. Guests count straight away. A result nobody answers closes without counting.
- Your record updatesOnce it is official it counts toward your head-to-head records, group board, badges and cups.
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Questions
Baseball in log8: questions
Can I keep Baseball scores with friends in log8?
Yes. Baseball is one of the 72 built-in games. Record the winner or a draw, with the score if you kept it. The other players approve it, then it counts.
How do you win at Baseball?
Score more runs than the other team by the end of the innings.
How many people play Baseball?
9 a side in the field. Casual games use whoever turns up.
Do people play Baseball differently?
Casual games often play fewer innings, skip strikes or hit off a tee. Agree before you start.
Do my friends need the app?
No. Add a friend as a guest and the game counts straight away. If they join log8 later, the games move to their account.
Settle your Baseball rivalry.
log8 is coming soon to Android and iPhone, and is free to download. It is in closed testing now: write to us for an invite, or to hear the day it reaches the stores.
Updated by the log8 team