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Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers Flashcards

The nine fielding positions and the scorekeeping number for each, the notation they build (6-4-3, 6-3, F7, K, E6), and why the DH has no number.

Free to play in your browser — no account, no install. All 17 cards are free forever — the deck is shorter than the free 30. The deck opens with Scorekeeping position 1, Scorekeeping position 2, Scorekeeping position 3 and Scorekeeping position 4 and runs to 17 cards in all.

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Scorekeeping position 1
Pitcher
Scorekeeping position 2
Catcher
Scorekeeping position 3
First baseman
Scorekeeping position 4
Second baseman
Scorekeeping position 5
Third baseman
Scorekeeping position 6
Shortstop
Scorekeeping position 7
Left fielder
Scorekeeping position 8
Center fielder
Scorekeeping position 9
Right fielder
6-4-3
Shortstop to second baseman to first baseman — the classic double play
6-3
Shortstop to first baseman — a ground-ball out
2-5
Catcher to third baseman — typically how a runner thrown out stealing third is written
How a fly out to left field is written
7, or F7 — the fielder's number carries the out
K, and a backwards K
Strikeout; the backwards K means the batter was called out looking
E6
An error charged to the shortstop — E for error, 6 for the fielder
What number the designated hitter gets
None of the nine fielding numbers — the DH does not take a fielding position, and scorers write DH
Whether every scorer writes a game the same way
No — the 1-to-9 numbers are standard, but the symbols around them vary by scorer

Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers flashcards — questions people ask

How many cards are in the Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers flashcard deck?
The Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers deck on PuzzlePage has 17 cards, and all 17 are free to play and free to download with no account and no payment. 17 cards. There are nine fielding positions and therefore nine numbers — a closed set. The rest of the deck is the notation those numbers build and the DH, which has no number. Nothing else belongs in it.
What is on the baseball positions & scorekeeping numbers flashcards?
The nine fielding positions and the scorekeeping number for each, the notation they build (6-4-3, 6-3, F7, K, E6), and why the DH has no number. Cards look like this: Scorekeeping position 1 → Pitcher; Scorekeeping position 2 → Catcher. The deck is written for grades 4–12 and filed under music, art & health.
Can I study baseball positions & scorekeeping numbers flashcards online for free?
Yes. All 17 cards of the Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.
Are the baseball positions & scorekeeping numbers flashcards accurate?
Every card in the Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers deck cites two independent published sources — two different organisations, not a standards body and a site reprinting it — and a script checks that, rather than taking the writer's word for it. A second specialist then re-verified the deck against sources of their own, without reading the citations first. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.
Can I print the baseball positions & scorekeeping numbers flashcards?
Yes. The Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The whole 17-card printable is free to download, with no account.
How should I use the Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers deck to revise?
Start in practice mode and go through the Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.
What grade level are the baseball positions & scorekeeping numbers flashcards for?
The Baseball Positions & Scorekeeping Numbers deck is written for grades 4–12. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising music, art & health, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.

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