Passing the cup down the row — the tradition this whole site is built around.
Or sometimes called Pass the Hat
Make your next baseball outing a little more interesting. You know the game — action on every play. No handling dirty money, and honestly, who carries singles anymore anyway. This site keeps track of everything for you: just enter the names and select what happens in the game, and the site does the rest. You can even customize the rules to match exactly how your group has always played.
I built this for my own outings — a running scoreboard scribbled on a napkin, then lost somewhere around the fifth inning, one too many times. I figured why not share it with everyone. We only save data to your device's cookies — nothing is stored on our servers. This site does not promote gambling.
Where the tradition comes from
Passing a cup around the stands during a ballgame is one of those traditions nobody can quite trace to a single origin — it shows up in Little League bleachers, beer-league softball, and the upper deck of major league parks alike, under names like Pass the Hat, the Inning Game, or just "the cup." The core idea is always the same: the cup changes with the action on the field, and by the end of the game it lands with whoever the plays favored. The specific rules — what a walk does, whether a home run empties the whole thing — have always been passed down verbally from one group to the next, which is exactly why they drift and why arguments happen.
Why a website
None of that tradition needed to change. What needed fixing was the bookkeeping. A phone in someone's pocket is a much better scorekeeper than a mental tally across nine innings and a few rounds of concessions. This site doesn't invent a new game — it just makes the one you already play easier to keep straight, so the conversation in the stands stays about the game on the field, not about who owes what.
What this site is not
This is a scorekeeping tool. It tracks points, not currency, and it has no payment processing, no wagering, and no way to move real money between players. Whatever your group decides to do with the final tally is between you — this site's job ends at keeping count.