The “score bug” first came about in the early 90s in British soccer games, but was soon imported to the United States. Soon sports broadcasts everywhere had a permanent graphic showing viewers the score. As time went on, more information was included in the score bug, and for baseball games that meant including information such as the count, the number of outs, who was up, who was pitching, pitch counts, and how fast the pitcher was throwing.
FOX has updated their score bug for this post-season for the first time since 2017, and it’s a bit busy.
The new @MLBONFOX scorebug debuts this afternoon at CWS-HOU in the ALDS (4 p.