How the controller works

• ▶ starts the clock. Starting it the first time also starts the camera recording (and the live stream, if you chose that) — so press it when the game begins.
• ❚❚ pauses it and ▶ carries on from the same time. The clock shows minutes and seconds, and hours too after the first hour.
• ⟳ resets the clock to 00:00. It asks first, so you can't hit it by accident.
• TOP / BOT and the − + buttons show and change the half-inning. You rarely need them: after the third out the controller moves to the next half-inning by itself. Use them if you're catching up or something went wrong.

Each run is one tap on + for the team that scored. Runs are not added automatically — not even for a home run — so remember to tap + for every runner who crosses home plate.

The team at bat has an orange frame: the away team bats in the top of the inning, the home team in the bottom.

Tapped + once too often? Tap − to take the run back off.

Tap a button after every pitch. The big numbers show the count, and the controller takes care of what happens next:

• Ball adds a ball. The fourth ball is a walk: the count resets and the next batter steps in.
• Strike adds a strike. The third strike is a strikeout: one more out, and the next batter steps in.
• Foul is a strike as long as the batter has fewer than two strikes. With two strikes, the count stays in softball and baseball. In slowpitch, a foul with two strikes is strike three.
• Walk sends the batter to first right away — for a hit by pitch or an intentional walk — without tapping four balls.

In Softball U12 no balls are counted, so Balls and Ball are greyed out.

When the at-bat ends with the ball in play, tap one of the three big buttons:

• Hit opens a choice: single (1B), double (2B), triple (3B) or home run (HR). Pick one and the next batter steps in. Remember to add any runs with +.
• Batter-Out — the batter is out (caught fly ball, thrown out at first). One more out, next batter.
• Runner-Out — a runner is out on the bases (caught stealing, picked off). One more out, but the same batter stays with the same count.

On the third out the side is retired: the count resets and the inning moves on automatically.

↶ Undo takes back your last tap. Tap it again to go further back, one step at a time. It undoes everything — a ball, a strike, a hit, an out, even the inning change after a third out.

Undo remembers the taps made on this device since you opened the game. If you reload the page or switch device, it starts empty. Then fix the count by tapping the number (see below), and runs with −.

Tap the Balls, Strikes or Outs number in the dark box. A small window opens: use − and + (or type the number), then OK.

You can set up to 3 balls, 2 strikes and 2 outs here. The fourth ball, third strike or third out must go through the normal buttons, so the walk, strikeout or inning change is recorded properly. Undo also undoes a correction.

The line at the top of the panel shows the team at bat and the current batter. Tap it to see the whole batting order and tap a player to make them the batter — the order then continues from that player.

Not batting — skip to next skips a batter who is absent or injured, just this once.

Names come from the lineup. Add it before the game with Edit → Add lineups. You can type it, or use Scan photo to read a photo of the lineup sheet. Without a lineup the batters are numbered #01, #02 and so on. Each team's order continues across innings.

Tap End game at the top and confirm. The game is locked, the camera stops, saves the recording and goes back to waiting for the next game.

After the last third out the controller has already moved on to an empty half-inning. Don't worry: when you end the game, the final scoreboard shows the last inning that was actually played.

What happens to the video afterwards is on the game day checklist.

Baseball5 has no pitcher, so there are no balls, strikes, fouls or walks — only Outs. You use Hit, Batter-Out (also for an illegal hit) and Runner-Out just like in softball, and runs with +. A game is five innings; the inning simply carries on if it's tied.

• Phase − / + steps through the match: 1st half, half time, 2nd half, full time, extra time and penalties. Moving on sets the clock to the right start, e.g. 45:00 for the 2nd half.
• Goal adds a goal. −1 takes one back if you tapped too often.
• Yellow, Red and Sub count cards and substitutions for each team. Cards can be turned off with Edit → Enable red/yellow cards.
• Undo last removes the last goal, card or substitution — this one works even after a reload.