Fix or remove an at-bat

Both apps keep these controls on the at-bat itself rather than in a menu, which is why they are easy to miss. On the web a pencil and a trash icon sit at the right-hand end of every row in the game's at-bat list — in a wide window they appear when you point at the row or tab to it, and in a narrow one they are always showing. On the phone you tap the row to open the at-bat, and the trash icon is in the top right of that screen.

Fixing one first. The same form on both platforms: the outcome, where the ball landed, the batted-ball type, RBIs, whether you scored, and stolen bases. The at-bat keeps its place in the game, so nothing is renumbered and nothing has to be recorded again.

Deleting is the same two places, and both platforms ask before they do it. There is no undo either way, so the question is the only thing standing between a mis-click and a lost plate appearance.

If you scored the game play-by-play, corrections happen in the play log instead, and at-bats can't be deleted from the game screen at all. While a game is still being scored, the rows stop opening: the phone explains that the log owns corrections and offers Open play log, and the web hides both icons and says the same thing above the list. Once the game is final the rows open again, but only part way — the hit location and the batted-ball type are still yours to fix, while the outcome, RBIs, runs and steals are read-only behind a note explaining why, and there is no trash icon. On the phone that note carries an Open play log link, and on the web the same note ends in an Open play log link too, beside the "Scored live — view play log" row on the game page behind the dialog. Removing one of those at-bats would mean removing the play it came from, and that is done in the log, where everything after it is recalculated.

If the at-bat went to the wrong player, change the batter rather than deleting it and recording it again. On a team game the edit form starts with a Batter row: tap Change, pick who really batted under Who batted?, and save. The at-bat keeps its place and its result, and moves from one player's line to the other's, roster-only players included. On a game scored play by play the same Batter row is at the top of Fix play in the play log, and a runner that player became on later plays follows him. On the web, every row of the team's at-bat list on the game page has the pencil and trash, not only your own.

Clearing a whole game is the other reason people come looking for this. Score this game live is only offered on a team game nobody has recorded on, so emptying a game is what brings that row back. Taking the at-bats off one at a time is the route any member can take on a game the play log doesn't own: every at-bat on the game counts, including ones a teammate recorded, and either app can remove them: the trash at the end of each row in the team's at-bat list on the website, or the trash icon on the at-bat you open from the list on the phone.

The game's own delete action is the quicker way, and on a game somebody else created it is narrower than it sounds: it removes only the at-bats you recorded, leaves the game itself for the team, and it appears only if you recorded some. On the web it is in the ⋯ menu in the game header, reading Remove my at-bats rather than Delete game; on the phone it is the trash icon in the header of the game screen, whichever tab you opened the game from. So if your team keeps score through one person and they typed your night in, those at-bats are theirs to remove rather than yours — neither app offers you that action, and the quickest route is to ask your scorekeeper to clear the game.