Next Inning: Baseball Lineups

A game clock, softball lineups, and ultra rotation. Game clock. For timed games, start a countdown from the dugout. You get an alert at 5 and 1 minutes left, and the time shows on a scoreboard beside the score. Choose Alarm, Chime or no sound, and whether time-up rings once or until you stop it. Softball lineups. In Team settings, choose how many of your lineup bat: softball bats 9, or 10 with an Extra Player, and the rest play defense. In the dugout, hold a batter to sub someone in without moving anyone else in the order. DP, EP and FLEX labels show in the batting order. Re-enter once, the softball substitution rule, joins the others under Substitutions. Your team's Substitutions setting now applies in every game, tournaments included, and picking a pitching preset no longer changes it. The dugout warns you before a batting sub that breaks your rule. Ultra rotation, in Team rules. Suggested lineups move every player one place each inning, the way a dugout board does, so nobody plays the same position twice in a game and everyone swaps between the infield and the outfield. Pitchers rotate too, so expect one-inning outings. Import season hitting stats from a CSV export instead of typing them in. Share team settings. A head coach can now let an individual assistant coach change team settings. Reset game. Put a live game back to the lineup you marked final. In the fielding plan, positions already taken that inning are struck through. On iPad, the dugout now turns reliably between portrait and landscape. Plus: a new team offers every team setting up front, a tidier game form, Invite a coach now sits beside your team members, and fixes for Sign in with Apple and Google, the chat unread badge, long team names in the header, and a batting order that could lose a player when you went back to setup.