Baseball game system in batting practice range

Claim 1

A baseball game system used in a batting practice range where a pitching machine is installed to automatically pitch a ball toward a batter's box, wherein a from net installed in front of said batter's box is subdivided to form an advanced runner zone for a single hit zone, a two-base hit zone, a three-base hit zone, a home run zone and an out zone, and wherein said baseball game system comprises: hitting zone detecting means for detecting a ball driven into said advanced runner zone or the out zone from said batter's box; strike counting means including an upright board installed behind said batter's box and provided with a strike sensor for detecting a ball pitched by said pitching machine striking the upright board due to a batter missing said pitched ball and means for increasing a strike-count in response to detection of said strike sensor for judgment of "out" when said strike count becomes a predetermined value; out counting means for increasing an out-count when an "Out" is judged by said strike counting means or has been detected by said hitting zone detection means based on a ball being driven into said out zone, said out counting means further being for progressing first and last attacks in each inning and resetting the out-count when said out-count becomes a predetermined value; an electric control portion including score counting means for counting a number of advanced runners detected by said hitting zone detection means based on a ball being driven into the advanced runner zone, for calculating an advanced state of runners in each inning based on a counted number of advanced runners and for counting a number of scoring runners as a score; inning counting means for counting a number of game innings; and display means connected to said strike counting means, said out counting means and said score counting means to display the strike-count, the out-count, progress of the innings and the score.