Printable lineup card
Fill in your batting order and hit print — or save it as a PDF from the print dialog, which works on a phone at the field. Starts at twelve slots because youth lineups are rarely nine — add more if you carry thirteen or bat a continuous order.
Nothing you type here leaves your browser. There is no sign-up and no upload: these are children’s names, and a free tool that quietly collected youth rosters would not be worth having. Closing the tab is the delete button.
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How to fill out a lineup card
Start with how your league bats. It decides what everything else on the card means:
- Continuous order — Everyone present bats, in a fixed rotation, all game. Defensive changes do not touch the batting order — which is why this card starts at twelve slots rather than nine.
- Bat 9 — Nine hitters. A substitution replaces a hitter in the order, and re-entry rules apply.
- Bat 10 — Nine fielders plus an extra hitter. Same substitution rules as Bat 9, one more slot.
Position numbers, and the one everybody gets wrong
Positions are numbered 1 to 9, and the numbering is the single genuinely standard thing on a scorecard. Third base is 5. First base is 3. Numbering by intuition makes every fielding note on the card — “6-4-3”, “F8” — unreadable to anyone else, including whoever scores the next inning.
| No. | Position |
|---|---|
| 1 | P — Pitcher |
| 2 | C — Catcher |
| 3 | 1B — First base |
| 4 | 2B — Second base |
| 5 | 3B — Third base |
| 6 | SS — Shortstop |
| 7 | LF — Left field |
| 8 | CF — Center field |
| 9 | RF — Right field |
DH, EH, DP and FLEX are not on that list, and that is deliberate. They are batting-order roles rather than defensive positions, they carry no number, and what each one means differs by sanctioning body — in softball, DP is the Designated Player, not a designated hitter. Write the abbreviation your league uses and confirm it with them, because we would be inventing a standard that does not exist.
Substitutions, and why the card is the record
Two rules catch coaches out, and both are decided by what is written on the card rather than by what anyone remembers:
- A starter who re-enters returns to their own slot. Not the next open one — the batting position they started in. This is why the order column is worth filling in properly even when the names feel obvious.
- A pitcher taken off the mound does not go back to it. They can play any other position. Under USSSA this is rule 7.05.A; other bodies word it differently and most agree on the substance.
Re-entry rules themselves vary — a continuous order has no re-entry at all, because nobody ever leaves the batting order in the first place. Check with your league. If their officials say something different from this page, they are right and we are not.
Before you hand it over
- Jersey numbers on every line — umpires check against them.
- Names legible to someone who has never met your team, which is who reads it.
- Two copies if your league wants one for the opposing scorer.
- Bring the pitchers’ rest days with you — Little League counts pitches, USSSA counts innings, and neither is decided at the field.
Doing this every week?
DugoutOps keeps your roster, suggests a batting order from how your players are actually hitting, tracks substitutions and re-entry, and prints the card for you. Scoring is free on every plan.
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