Baseball scoreboards are great for the spectator because they feature all the important statistical information at any point in the game. A spectator can use a scoreboard to find out the current score in the game, the current inning, how many hits and errors each team has and how many outs have been recorded in that inning. While the exact composition of baseball scoreboard is often up to the home team's discretion, all can be navigated easily when you know what to look for.
Step 1
Identify a line of numbers running from one to nine. These are the innings in the game. Below these numbers are the runs scored by each team in the corresponding inning. The visiting team occupies the line underneath the innings numbers and allocates space under each corresponding inning to tally their total runs for that inning. The home team's scoring will be below the visiting team's in the same format. Both lines will be preceded by an abbreviation for the team's name, or sometimes just "Home" and "Visitor."
Step 2
Learn what inning the game is in. On most boards, numbers are only entered in after the completion of that part of the inning. So, if the game you are watching is only in the fourth inning, innings five through nine will be blank. This lets you know what inning the game is up to. At the end of these numbers is the total amount for each line, which indicates the current score of the game.
Step 3
Look just past the column where the total scores are listed for the home and visiting teams. Continuing on in the same row as the inning numbers will be two letters, "H" and "E." The numbers under the "H" count how many hits each team has at that point in the game, while the "E" stands for the errors committed by each team.
Step 4
Identify numbers corresponding to the words "Balls," "Strikes" and "Outs." These words each correspond with one number, which keeps track of the pitches in the at bat (balls outside the strike zone and strikes), while the "Outs" counts the number of players that have been retired in that inning. If the number of Balls reaches four before the batter hits the ball or strikes out, they get to go to first base. If the number of strikes reaches three before the batter hits the ball or gets four balls, they strike out and count as an Out. When a team reaches three outs, their turn batting in that inning is over, and they go out to play defense.
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