Set the batting order for one game

Change who bats where for a single game without touching the team's default, and give live scoring the order it needs before the first pitch.

A game's order is its own. It opens seeded from the team's default, or from that team's last game if there is no default, so most weeks you are moving two people rather than building a list. Saving it changes this game only — the team's default stays as it was.

Live scoring will not start without one, so this is also the step the Batting order row on the scoring setup screen takes you to.

On your phone

  1. Open the game — from the Games tab, or from the team's schedule.
  2. If the game opens on Me, tap Team at the top. Tap Batting Order, beside the Team Stats heading above the player table. (From the live-scoring setup sheet, the Batting order row goes to the same screen.)
  3. Batters are numbered under Batting order, and everyone else is listed under Not in the order. Use the up and down arrows on a row to move that batter, or hold the row and drag it. Tap Add to bring somebody in, and the ✕ to leave them out.
  4. Tap Save.

On the web

  1. Open the game — from Games, or from the team's schedule.
  2. Click the ⋯ button in the game's header, beside the edit pencil, and choose Batting order. (From the live-scoring setup screen, the Batting order row goes to the same editor.)
  3. Use the up and down arrows to order the batters, and Add to bring in anyone under Not in the order.
  4. Click Save order.
The Batting Order screen: numbered rows with up and down arrows and a ✕ on each, and two players under Not in the order with an Add button
On your phone

Once the game has started — somebody has batted, or live scoring is on — each batter's ✕ becomes Sub, on both apps. Tap it when a player leaves mid-game and pick who takes their spot, or Nobody to close the order up. The player moves under Subbed out: they keep their at-bats, the box score still lists them at the spot they batted in, and Next up skips them. Put back in returns them to that spot. If you only added somebody by mistake, choose "Take them out of the order instead" in the same list.

Only team games have an order. On the phone the Batting Order link appears once the team has somebody else on the roster — a teammate using the app, or a ghost player you added. Anyone on the team can edit it; the order is shared, like the game itself.

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