Core
Lineups & batting orders
Build the order once, adjust in seconds, and always know who is up next—before a kid asks.
Mention Labs · Live · Free
Batter Up: the calmer clipboard for youth baseball.
One simple, dependable place to manage the game. Lineups, fair rotations, pitch counts, game tracking, and easy sharing come first. Walk-up songs provide the fun surprise that makes it memorable for the kids.
The origin
Why Batter Up exists
Batter Up grew out of real youth baseball games—not a product brainstorming session.
As a coach, father, and occasional umpire, I was constantly juggling batting orders, defensive rotations, pitch counts, game time, scorekeeping, parent questions, and kids asking when they were up next. Paper lineups got messy, pitch counts were easy to lose, and game-day information was scattered across clipboards, clickers, texts, and conversations at the fence.
The original idea was called TailGreat, and it started with walk-up songs—because that is what the kids wanted. It is still live, and I adore that dog logo so much I am probably not done with it.
But walk-up songs turned out to be a hard thing to build well, and honestly not much better than a simple list. Other products already had the music covered. The real problem was never the music.
My issue was always the lineups. That is by far the hardest part of game day management. Then pitch counts—super helpful. Balls, strikes, innings: yeah, those matter too. What coaches needed was one simple, dependable place to manage the game.
That became Batter Up—the calmer clipboard for youth baseball.
The serious tools come first. The fun is the surprise on top.
Batter Up has been in real dugouts all season. I used it with my coaches this year, including a co-coach who happens to be a developer and gave honest feedback between innings. Shout-out, dad Finley.
What it does
Everything game day throws at a coach
Core
Fair rotations
Defensive rotations that keep playing time fair and visible, so the tough conversations get easier.
Core
Pitch counts
Counts that do not get lost between the clicker, the scorebook, and the fence. Safe arms, calm umpires.
Core
Game tracking
Score, inning, and game time in one glance instead of scattered across clipboards and texts.
Core
Easy sharing
Parents see the lineup and schedule without twelve identical questions at the fence.
The fun part
Walk-up songs
The TailGreat spirit lives on. Every kid gets their moment at the plate, soundtrack included.
Status: live · Build 42
Tested where all great software is tested: at the ballpark.
Coach a team? Run a league? It is free, private, and works offline in the dugout—no accounts, no app store. Open it, build your lineup, and pass it along to another coach.