Follow baseball at work
Sport Spreadsheet follows live baseball — MLB and more — as line scores, box scores and the standings inside a spreadsheet. A box score is already a grid of numbers, so baseball hides in a sheet as well as any sport.
No sport fills the working calendar like baseball. A 162-game season means games nearly every day from spring to autumn, and the afternoon 'getaway day' fixtures land squarely in your working afternoon. It's also the sport that disguises itself best — a line score and a box score are tables of numbers to begin with. Here's how to follow every inning from your desk.
Why baseball is hard to follow at work
Baseball is a marathon, not an event: with a game most days and frequent day games — teams often play a weekday afternoon before travelling — there's live action during working hours all season long. Leaving a stream open for a three-hour game is a giveaway; a line score updating inning by inning looks like a report you've had open all along.
Baseball we cover
| Competition | Region | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Major League Baseball | USA | Live |
| NCAA Baseball | USA | Live |
What you can follow
Live scores by inning — the R-H-E line score — updating through every at-bat; a live box score; and the division standings with each team's magic number down the stretch. Runs, hits and errors sit in the grid like any KPI.
Guides by competition
The numbers, explained
Questions
- Can I follow MLB at work?
- Yes — live MLB line scores, box scores and the standings (with the magic number), each as a sheet tab that reads as a data dashboard.
- Why does baseball work so well as a disguise?
- A baseball line score and box score are already tables of numbers — runs, hits, errors, innings — so following a game looks exactly like watching a spreadsheet update.
Open the spreadsheet
Today's baseball fixtures and the live table are one quiet tab away. Free, instant, no account.