The last inning. Your call.

A real situation. A new ending.

FF Baseball puts you in the dugout for the ninth inning or extras of a historical baseball game. You choose the strategy; the players react to each pitch through the simulation. Your decisions can preserve a lead, build a rally, or take a tied game into extra innings.

Explore the 50-game historical library or read the strategy guide for the tradeoffs behind your calls.

How to play

1. Read the situation. Check the score, your assigned team, available players, and the current pitcher before starting.
2. Make your call. While batting, choose an approach, hunt fastballs or offspeed, bunt, or take pitches. With runners on base, choose their leads or signal a steal. On defense, select the pitch and location, or let the catcher decide.
3. Manage the finish. Use your bench and bullpen as players tire. Advance one pitch at a time or finish an at-bat. Tied games continue into extras under the historical rules.

From the historical dugout

• 2001 Game 7: facing Rivera one run behind — why reaching base, the pitcher’s batting slot, and the next defensive inning all matter.
• 1991 Game 6: Puckett leads off the eleventh — one run wins, but a home run is only one way to build the inning.
• 2019 Game 7: building a four-run rally — why outs and baserunners have different value when a single swing cannot tie the score.

Today's historical context

The library includes ninth-inning and extra-inning situations from regular-season and postseason games. Each uses its historical roster, score, and ballpark, with player-season statistics informing a simulated finish.

New daily openings are tied or within two runs, alternating batting and pitching starts. Some begin at the start of an inning; others put you into a verified historical moment with runners aboard and outs already recorded. You keep managing the same team if play switches sides. Everyone gets the same daily opening and random seed. The challenge changes at midnight Pacific. Your started game and results stay in this browser; use the backup option in Game settings to move them to another device.

These are original stylized simulations, not recordings of the real games. Ballpark outlines follow documented distances; wall heights between landmarks, player movement, fatigue, and ball flight are approximations. Older games use historical season statistics and earlier-game pitch samples where modern tracking data is unavailable.