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A baseball box score from 1876. A box score is a chart used in baseball to present data about player achievement in a particular game. An abbreviated version of the box score, duplicated from the field scoreboard, is the line score. The Baseball Hall of Fame credits Henry Chadwick with the invention of the box score [1] in 1858.
Traditional-style baseball scorecard. Baseball scorekeeping is the practice of recording the details of a baseball game as it unfolds. Professional baseball leagues hire official scorers to keep an official record of each game (from which a box score can be generated), but many fans keep score as well for their own enjoyment. [1]
The 2024 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2024 season.The 120th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees.
A baseball box score from 1876. [1] A box score is a structured summary of the results from a sport competition. The box score lists the game score as well as individual and team achievements in the game. Among the sports in which box scores are common are baseball, basketball, American football, volleyball and hockey.
The last Major League Baseball (MLB) player to do so, with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting championship, was Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who hit .406 in 1941. [4] Note that batting averages are rounded ; [ 5 ] entering the final day of the 1941 season, Williams was at 179-for-448, which is .39955 and would have been ...
The lowest game score since 1957 was Oakland pitcher Mike Oquist's, who allowed 16 hits and 14 earned runs in five innings on August 3, 1998, for a −21. In terms of high scores, the system favors current pitchers in some ways. It is difficult to achieve a very high score in a game without amassing a substantial number of strikeouts.
1985 World Series at WorldSeries.com via MLB.com; 1985 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1985 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1985 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1985 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. K.C. Had A Blast at SI.com
Chadwick was also the inventor of the modern box score and the writer of the first rule book for the game of baseball. [1] Since baseball statistics were initially a subject of interest to sportswriters, the role of the official scorer in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early days of the sport was performed by newspaper writers.