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Baseball Darts Rules: How to Play

Baseball is a nine-round scoring game that borrows its name and its innings from the ballpark. Each inning has its own target number, every dart on it scores runs, and the highest total after nine wins.

Setup

Nine innings, nine numbers

Two or more players, three darts each per inning. Inning 1 is aimed at the 1, inning 2 at the 2, and so on up to inning 9 at the 9. Throw a dart at the bull to decide who bats first.

Use a chalkboard with the innings 1 to 9 across the top and a row per player. It looks like a baseball scorecard, and it makes the game easy to follow.

How a turn works

Runs for every hit

  1. In each inning, every player throws three darts at that inning’s number.
  2. A single is worth one run, a double two runs and a treble three runs.
  3. Darts that land anywhere else score nothing.
  4. The most you can score in one inning is nine runs, three trebles.
  5. Write the runs in that inning’s column and move on.

For example: in the 5th inning you hit a double 5, a single 5 and miss with the third dart. That is three runs for the inning.

Winning

Most runs after nine

Add up each player’s runs after the 9th inning. The most runs wins. If two players are tied, play extra innings at 10, 11 and so on until someone is ahead after an inning.

A good score for a casual game is in the 20s. Anything over 30 is a night to remember.

Common variants

House rules

  • Seventh-inning stretch. In inning 7, a player who misses the 7 with all three darts has their runs halved. Hit it and play on as normal.
  • Fewer innings. Six innings for a quick game, or a full 20 for a long evening.

Baseball is played a bit differently in every pub, so check before you throw.

Tips

Scoring more runs

  • Take the early innings seriously. The 1 and 18 sit either side of the 20 and are easy to find, so bank the runs.
  • The 9 sits next to the 12 and the 14. Be careful with the trebles there, a miss goes into a neighbour.
  • Go for the treble if you are behind, a single if you are ahead.
  • In the stretch variant, think of the 7 as a must-hit and settle down before throwing it.

For a quicker version, play Shanghai. For something with eliminations, try Killer. Every game is listed on the darts hub.

Questions

Quick answers

How many innings are in darts Baseball?
Nine, like the real thing. Inning 1 is aimed at the 1, inning 2 at the 2, and so on up to the 9.
How are runs scored?
A single is one run, a double is two and a treble is three. Only darts that land in the inning's number count.
What happens if the scores are tied after nine innings?
Play extra innings. The target is the next number up, starting with 10, until one player is ahead at the end of an inning.
What is the seventh-inning stretch?
A house rule for the 7th inning. Miss the 7 with all three darts and your runs are halved. Hit it and the inning plays normally.

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