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New RallyBird Baseball ScorePage

Download the 2023 RallyBird Baseball scorepage pdf here.

Hello! It’s June, 2023! Baseball is well underway. The RallyBird Baseball Board Game is available and selling! MLB’s rule changes this year has cut game time by 41 minutes! How do you feel about it? So far I like it, as I think the time that crept in was not essential to the game (bloat), and returns it to more of a classic game flow. I also like that it arguably can increase the appeal of baseball to casual viewers.

I have conjured up a new, improved RallyBird Baseball scoresheet, which you can view and download below. Over time I’ll post some of my own filled-out scoresheets. My idea is that for those who want to try it, this scorepad can increase the enjoyment of the game, and increase rivalry and provide data for lively discussion (including but not limited to chatter, gloating and bragging). It also could lead to the fun of trying different tactics and seeing, over time, how they play out. There’s plenty of space for you to name the players if you wish.

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I’ll look into including one of these double-sided pages in future releases of the RallyBird Baseball Board Game. I pause, however, because I wonder if I should include a small section in the rules that shows how to fill it out. Redoing the rules would be a huge project. Or maybe I should include a copy of a score page of a game I myself played out… What do you think?

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Click here for the PDF of the RallyBird Board Game score sheets: RB ScorePage.

There’s one page for the Visitor team (Red) and one for Home (Blue).

Note that unless most regular baseball scoresheets, these align the batters horizontally, the innings vertically. This I think works best with the way the RallyBird board game plays… Take a look!

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If your inning happily runs through more than 8 batters, just cross out the Inning numbers in the rows below, and continue.

In each At Bat box, you can write the name of the At Bat tactic below the diamond. You can use the diamond to indicate where the runner advances. I’d trace the line from home plate to first base and then draw an open circle around first base. If that same runner moved to second later, I’d trace that path on the diamond and put a filled circle on 2nd. If the runner makes it home, fill in the diamond. If a batter knocks a runner in, draw a filled in circle in a corner. I don’t know if it’s plausible yet (as this is new), but completists could possibly write the Glove tiles in the field as suggested by the diamond in each box.

At the end of the half inning, on the right side, record the number of hits you earned, how many runners your team left on base after 3 outs (“LOB”), how many of Defense’s Glove tiles you knocked out of the inning (“GloveX”), and of course your Runs. So you can see there is some emphasis of the experience in the RallyBird BoardGame terms.

At the bottom of each page record your game totals. The point is both to give you a numerical picture of the game performance, and to engage you and help you think about the impact of your strategies and tactics.Screen Shot 2019-04-18 at 7.33.24 PM.png

Don’t forget to write your name on top, where you’re playing, and any other details that will make it fun for you to look back at this scoresheet of your epic struggle and reminisce! And perhaps gloat…

PS. It’s a blast to keep score at live baseball games.