 Let's take a look at something now that you won't see a lot but it is included in the rulebook and it is kind of a fun thing to know especially if you are big into keeping score or If you like the mathematical portion of baseball and the rules And so what we're going to look at is how to prove a box score proving a box Score and the rulebook includes this at the end and the official Scorekeeper section and what it explains is that if you add up these items up here, then you add up these three at the bottom You should get the same number and if you do get the same number then that means that everything has checked out and that you have Kept score correctly. So let's just run through a quick example here So as you can see this top category up here includes at bats walks hit batsman Sacrifices that's both sacrifice flies and bunts and interference and obstruction because remember Things like walks and hit batsman those will count as plate appearances But not as an official at bat because we don't penalize the batter's average for that and then the second category is put outs a number of men left on base and the number of runs they scored because if you think about it There's only three things that can happen to a batter either. He's going to Be put out He's going to make it up get on base and if he gets on base either he's going to score run or he's going to be left there Whenever three outs are up at the end of the inning So let's take a look at this game here. The Mets played the Orioles the other day I think this will be a quick example because Or a Dickie for the Mets pitched pitched a one-hitter and so this should be a quick Way to run through this. So let's look at How Baltimore line-up did and as you can see it wasn't very well for their offense But as far as at bats went you can look in the box score. You can see the totals down here So they had 28 at bats If you look in the walk column here, they had two batters walked They didn't have anybody hit by a pitch and you'd be able to see that in the Figures listed underneath the main score here so they had zero as far as sacrifices they had zero and The rarest category you rarely ever see somebody who made it on base due to interference or obstruction. They had them Orioles had zero in this game. So the We could total those up and we of course get 30 For that top category, so now let's look at this second area here and this is going to be put outs obviously the Orioles batted nine times or nine innings three outs and inning. That's gonna give them 27 outs We saw down here also listed the number of men left on base They had three men who they left on base and of course they scored zero runs So we can add this up simple math 27 plus 3 that'll give us 30 And so we can of course see that these two numbers here will both check out 30 30 that means that we have just proved this box score and all these figures look to be correct