DUGOUT
A minimal baseball lineup, scoring, and pitch-count app for iPhone. Built for Little League and youth coaches who want something simpler.
Dugout is a minimal baseball scorekeeper and Little League lineup app for iPhone. It handles the batting order, a tappable linescore, pitch counts per pitcher, a season game log, and per-inning fielding rotations — assign a different defensive lineup to every inning so you can rotate younger players through every position. It also prints: a printable baseball lineup card showing each player's position by inning, two to a page with a fold line so you can tear one off for an assistant coach, plus a printable game summary with the linescore and pitch counts. Dugout is a Progressive Web App: it installs to your iPhone home screen from Safari, runs offline, and needs no account. Made by Backfield, a small software studio, for coaches who want something simpler than GameChanger or TeamSnap for the part of the job that matters in the dugout — keeping score during the game.
A scorebook in your pocket.
Dugout is a small app for people who keep score from the dugout. Set a batting order, track the linescore, count pitches, rotate fielders inning by inning. That's it. No accounts, no syncing, no team management features you don't need.
It's the app a coach with too much to think about already would actually use. Built by someone who keeps score from the dugout himself.
The whole feature list.
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01
Bat
Drag-reorder the batting order. Bench players and swap them in. The lineup card, but you can rearrange it with a thumb.
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02
Field
Tap a position on the diamond, pick a player. Every inning has its own field — rotate beginners through every spot without losing track. A grid view shows who's where across all innings at a glance.
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Score
Tappable linescore. Increment runs by half-inning. Balls, strikes, outs. Looks like the scoreboard.
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Pitch
One big tap to count a pitch. Track strikes separately. Switch pitchers when you need to.
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05
Game
The whole game on one screen — scoreboard, lineup, field, and pitch counts. Copy a summary to share, or save it to your log.
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06
Log
Save finished games. Reopen them to edit. Season record. Export to Excel if you want to.
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Print
A real lineup card, on paper. The batting order down the side, each player's position by inning across the top, and a small field diagram in the corner. Two identical cards print per page with a fold line between them — fold, tear, and hand one to your assistant. There's a game summary sheet too: final score, linescore by inning, and pitch counts.
Add to home screen.
Dugout is a Progressive Web App — it runs in your iPhone's browser but you can install it to your home screen so it opens like a native app. There's nothing to download from the App Store, and it works offline.
- Open backfield.io/dugout in Safari on your iPhone
- Tap the Share button at the bottom of the screen
- Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen
- Tap Add in the top right
Dugout will appear on your home screen as a regular app icon. Opens full-screen, works offline, remembers your team between games.
What Dugout isn't.
Some things this app does not do, on purpose:
- No accounts, no logins, no cloud sync
- No team chat, parent messaging, or roster sharing
- No live game streaming or notifications
- No sabermetrics, spray charts, or exit velocity — season tallies and a batting average, the kind of thing you'd keep on paper
- No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no ads
- Built and tested for iPhone — it may run in other browsers, but that's not what it's for
If you need team management, try GameChanger or TeamSnap — they're great at that. Dugout is for the part of the job those apps make harder than it needs to be: actually keeping score during the game.
Free to use. Made by Dan at Backfield, a small studio.