Batter Up

Batter Up is a guess-the-player game for baseball fans built around one idea: you can often recognise a hitter from his stance alone. Each day the game shows a dark silhouette video of a mystery MLB batter getting set and swinging. You type a name, and the reveal clip plays once you get it or run out of guesses.

The main game uses active players and gives you eight attempts. Each guess fills a row of tiles for jersey number, team, division, country of birth, age and position. Green means a match; yellow means close: a jersey number in the same tens, an age within two years, a division in the same league or a related position. Read together, the tiles narrow the field the way Poeltl does for basketball, with the stance clip as an extra clue that rewards people who watch a lot of games.

The site has grown into a family of dailies under one menu. Strike Zone does the same with pitchers, Jump Shot with NBA players, Batter Up Classics and Jump Shot Classics with retired players, ten guesses and debut and retirement decades as clues, and Huddle Up with NFL quarterbacks. A Teams section adds six-guess boards for single MLB and NBA clubs. Every main game has a numbered daily puzzle, nearly a thousand so far for Batter Up, and an archive of past days. Winning at least one of the daily games keeps a shared streak going, and an optional account keeps stats across devices.

The page carries banner and video ads around the board. It suits fans who like the idea that a batting stance is as recognisable as a face: the silhouettes reward people who know how players move, while the tiles let casual fans reason their way to the answer.