Game Day: the Free Baseball and Softball Scoring App
Your live lineup board for the dugout: set field positions, manage subs, track playing time, and keep score. Runs right in your browser. No app store download, and no account needed to start.
- Set positions and manage subs on a live field board
- Playing time tracked for every player
- Keep score by inning with a live scoreboard
- Outs, count, baserunners, and pitch counts as you tap
Everything You Need to Score a Game
Score by Inning
Runs post to a live, inning-by-inning scoreboard the moment a half-inning ends.
Balls, Strikes, and Outs
Tap through the count. Four balls or three strikes resolve automatically, and three outs flips the inning.
Baserunners Tracked Automatically
Hits and defensive plays advance runners on their own, so the bases always match what happened.
Pitch Counts by Pitcher
Every pitch is logged to whoever is on the mound, with a running count across pitching changes.
Playing Time and Positions
See who has played where and for how long, right alongside the score, not in a separate spreadsheet.
Works on Any Phone or Tablet
Nothing to install. Open the page in any mobile browser and start scoring from the dugout fence.
No Account to Start
Set up a game and start scoring in under a minute. Create an account only when you want to save it.
What Is a Baseball and Softball Scoring App?
A baseball scoring app replaces the pencil and scorebook with a tool that runs on your phone or tablet. Instead of learning scorekeeping notation, you tap the result of each play, a ball, a strike, an out, a hit, a run, and the app updates the game state, advances the runners, and keeps the score current inning by inning.
Game Day is Dugout Edge's free scoring app for baseball and softball. It is built for whoever is running the dugout: an assistant coach, a team parent, or the head coach between innings. Setup takes about fifteen seconds (team name, opponent, and number of innings), and the browser tab becomes your scorebook for the rest of the game.
Unlike a bare-bones scorekeeper app that only tracks runs and outs, Game Day also tracks what a coach actually manages during a game: pitch counts by pitcher and playing time by position, so you leave the field with more than a final score.
Scoring App vs. Scorebook App vs. Paper Scorecards
Dugout Edge builds three different tools for three different scoring habits, and we keep them separate on purpose so each one stays simple.
A scoring app like Game Day tracks a live game as it happens: score by inning, outs, baserunners, pitch counts, and playing time, all updating automatically as you tap. This page is that tool.
A scorebook app, like our free baseball scorebook generator, builds a printable, multi-game scorebook you fill in by hand, cover page, roster, and diamond-grid pages included. Some coaches like the digital convenience of a scoring app during the game and a printed record for the team binder afterward, and either generator gives you that.
Plain paper scorecards remain the simplest option. Our free baseball scorecards are diamond-grid templates you print and fill in with a pen: no battery, no screen glare, no setup. If you already know traditional scorekeeping notation and prefer paper, that is still a perfectly good way to keep score.
And if all you want is the score itself, without pitch counts or player tracking, our virtual scoreboard is a simpler LED-style board for runs, hits, and errors by inning. Use the scoreboard for a quick scrimmage, and use Game Day when you also want the count, the baserunners, every pitcher's pitch count, and who played where.
Does This Work for Softball Scoring?
Yes. Fastpitch and slowpitch softball score the same way baseball does at the youth level: three outs per half-inning, the same hit and out types, and the same run rules a coach already knows. Game Day works identically as a softball scoring app, you just tell it the number of innings your league plays (commonly five, six, or seven) when you set up the game.
For coaches who want a printed backup alongside the digital tool, Dugout Edge also offers free softball scorecards and a softball scorebook generator with DP/FLEX tracking built in.
New to Scorekeeping? Start Here.
Not sure what counts as an error, or how to score a fielder's choice? The Dugout Edge scorekeeping help center walks through the situations coaches actually run into during a game.
Scoring Your Real Team, All Season
Game Day on this page scores one game at a time for whoever is running the dugout right now. Premium coaches get the same scoring tool wired into their actual roster and schedule: pick tonight's game from the team calendar, score it against your real lineup, and every game rolls up into season pitch counts, batting order history, and playing-time fairness reports automatically.
See Premium Game Day FeaturesFrequently Asked Questions
Is Game Day really free to use?
Yes. Setting up a game and scoring it is completely free with no account required. Sign up only if you want to save the game to a team and see it again later.
Do I need to create an account to start scoring?
No. Enter your team name, the opponent, and the number of innings, and you are scoring within about fifteen seconds. An account is only needed to save games to a roster and track a full season.
Does the scoring app work on my phone?
Yes. Game Day is built mobile first for the dugout: it runs in any phone or tablet browser with no app to install. The buttons are sized for tapping one-handed while you are also coaching.
What happens if I tap the wrong result?
Use the undo control to reverse the last action and restore the exact game state before the mistake. You are not stuck with a bad tap.
Does it track pitch counts automatically?
Yes. Every pitch is logged to whoever is on the mound, and the count carries across pitching changes so you always know how many pitches each pitcher has thrown.
Can I use this for softball games?
Yes. Baseball and softball score the same way at the youth level, so Game Day works for both. Just set your league’s inning count (commonly five, six, or seven for softball) when you start the game.
Does Game Day save my game after I close the browser?
Your game in progress is saved on your device while you play, so you can close the tab and come back to it. Create a free account to keep the game permanently, attach it to your team, and roll it into season stats.
Do I need to know traditional scorekeeping notation?
No. You tap the plain-language result of each play (hit, walk, ground out, and so on) and Game Day handles the notation, the base running, and the math behind it.