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===Baseball=== [[Image:Ray Fisher Stadium scoreboard University of Michigan Ann Arbor.JPG|thumb|right|260px|[[Ray Fisher Stadium]] baseball scoreboard with [[Box_score_(baseball)#Line_score|line score]], [[University of Michigan]]]] For [[baseball]] the scoreboard will at the minimum show both team scores, as well as the current [[Inning (baseball)|inning]]. In addition the number of balls, strikes and outs is represented by digits or individual lights. Larger scoreboards offer an [[Inning (baseball)|inning]]-by-inning breakdown of the scores, hits, errors, [[pitch count]] and the time of day, along with [[pitch clock]]s for leagues which mandate that rule. There may also be another display either separate or combined with the scoreboard listing the [[radar gun]] reading of the last pitch thrown in miles per hour. Almost all Major League facilities have a video board as a scoreboard or a matrix display. Usually these scoreboards are controlled via programs that keep statistics and not just the score. Usually the official scorer will operate this program. Then all the information the official scorer will enter, will automatically be made output to the scoreboard. Currently, the largest scoreboards are located at [[Progressive Field]] in Cleveland, Ohio, and Kansas City, Missouri's [[Kauffman Stadium]]. There is also a very large scoreboard at [[Citizens Bank Park#Video boards|Citizens Bank Park]], in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Manually operated scoreboards are still found frequently in baseball, particularly at older venues. Well-known examples of manual scoreboards, using numbers painted on metal sheets hung by people working inside the scoreboard, include [[Fenway Park]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] and [[Wrigley Field]] in [[Chicago]]. In some stadiums since 2005, LED boards which are the full height of the outfield wall have been installed to either replace a manual scoreboard or enhance an existing wall, are considered in play, and are durably constructed to withstand the impacts of fielders colliding with the wall, along with the impact of a baseball against the panel. Examples of this type of scoreboard display are seen in [[Milwaukee]]'s [[Miller Park (Milwaukee)|Miller Park]], [[Rogers Centre]] in [[Toronto]], New [[Yankee Stadium]] in [[The Bronx]], and [[Kauffman Stadium]] in Kansas City. In all three cases, the walls display the current game state of out-of-town games (often down to pitch count for the current at-bat and runners on base), statistics for the current batter or pitcher, and promotional messages. Another display has been added to minor and major league stadiums through the mid-2010s to the current day, the [[pitch clock]], which will become a binding rule in MLB in the 2023 season. This is a separate display, analogous to the play clock in football, and has multiple iterations throughout the stadium for maximum player, coach, and umpire visibility, along with spectators. Outside of timing pitch releases, the pitch clock also displays time remaining before play resumes during a [[television timeout|media timeout]] between innings, and to time warmup periods for [[relief pitcher]]s coming out of the [[bullpen]].
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