BaseballWatch — User Manual

1. Getting Started

BaseballWatch brings live pro baseball to your wrist. Install it, register your favorite players (or pick a favorite team), and the watch keeps you in the game — live score, count, runners, and real-time event notifications. Every feature is free for the first 14 days.

1. Install BaseballWatch on your watch from the Connect IQ Store.
2. Open the app — the 14-day full-feature trial starts automatically. No payment, no account.
3. To keep using it after the trial: subscribe on the BaseballWatch homepage ($1.49/month via Stripe, cancel anytime). You'll receive an activation key by email.
4. Enter the key in Connect IQ Mobile → BaseballWatch → Settings → License Key, then restart the app.

How often the screen updates

BaseballWatch adapts its update rate to the game situation, so it's fastest when it matters and battery-friendly the rest of the time:

2. Home Screen

When you open BaseballWatch you land on the home screen — Today's Scores, the whole day's schedule in one scrolling list. It's the hub: every game of the day in one place, with the teams of your followed players highlighted. From here you open any game, jump to another day, or reach the settings. The single-game live view (the main screen, chapter 5) is what you get when you follow a player or team, or open a live game from this list.

Game List Game Detail Weather Game Result

The game list

• Each row is one game — away @ home with the score, or the start time before it begins. A live game shows the current inning (e.g. T8 = top of the 8th), a finished game shows F, and a postponed game shows PPD.
• The title tracks the day: IN GAME (n) while games are live, TODAY'S RESULTS once every game is final, NEXT GAMES (n) before any have started, or TODAY'S GAMES for a mix.
• Green underline — in Player Mode, a team name is underlined in green when one of your watched players is in that game, so you can spot your games at a glance.
• Scrolling — UP / DOWN (or swipe) scrolls the list, wrapping around endlessly. When games are live, the list auto-focuses the most recently started game on launch.

Opening a game & navigating

Game result screen

Tap a finished game to open its result — the line score, the winning / saving / losing pitchers (W / S / L) and both teams' home runs. Tap a pitcher (W / S / L) or a home-run hitter to jump straight to that player's detail screen (chapter 10). UP / DOWN scrolls when there are more pitchers or home runs than fit. The result screen follows the same background as the game list (see Home watch face). This box-score result is a separate screen from the main screen's game-over view (chapter 5), which shows a finished game from your followed player's angle.

Game detail — starting pitchers & weather

Long-press a game to open its detail: the day's probable / starting pitchers, any of your watched members in the game, and a Stadium & Weather bar at the bottom — the venue name plus temperature, humidity, wind, pressure and elevation. Units follow your watch settings (°C / °F, m / ft). Weather comes from a free public forecast for the stadium's location, so no game data budget is spent on it.

Date navigation

Tap the date at the bottom of the list to move between days — past days show that day's final results, future days show the scheduled matchups. On a future day the games are previews only, so opening one just keeps it in the list; the result appears once it has actually been played.

Home watch face

The home screen doubles as a watch face. Set its look in Settings → Watchface: Background (Black / Gray / Grass), Clock Style (Digital / Hands / Rim marks), Clock Ticks (Off / On) and Hand Color. On the Gray background the list text automatically switches to a lighter, high-contrast style so everything stays readable.

3. Two Modes

BaseballWatch has two display modes. Team Mode is the easiest way to follow a whole team; Player Mode tracks specific players across teams. You switch between them with the Track Mode entry in Settings — a single item that toggles in place, its value reading Player or Team. Open Settings by tapping the top of the home list or the upper part of the main screen.

4. Managing Players (Player Mode only)

Player Mode tracks players by their official Player ID. Find any player's ID with the lookup tool on the BaseballWatch homepage — search by name and copy the number.

Minor league players

Player Mode is not limited to the majors. Register a player from Triple-A, Double-A, High-A or Single-A the same way — by Player ID — and they are followed exactly like a major leaguer: live at-bats, the day's stat line, season stats and inning history. The homepage lookup tool finds minor leaguers too, so you can search them by name.

• Level badge — on the main screen a small amber badge inside the diamond, just above the B-S-O count, shows the level: AAA, AA, A+ or A. Major leaguers show no badge.
• Parent club — the detail screen (chapter 10) adds the parent organization after the team name, e.g. Gwinnett Stripers (Atlanta Braves), so you always know whose system they are in.
• Stats follow the level — season stats are the player's stats at the level they are currently playing at.
• Called up? — if your player moves up (or down) a level, BaseballWatch picks up the change on its own and follows them to their new team. Nothing to re-register.

On the watch (Member List)

1. Open the settings menu (tap the upper area) and choose Member List. The 20 slots appear, each showing the player's name and a status marker — #slot number, plus W (watched) or L (lock-in), or OFF when the slot is disabled.
2. Select a slot to open its action menu. A filled slot offers Select Player (show it on the main screen), Reorder, Edit ID, Enabled (on/off) and Add Player; an empty slot offers just Edit ID and Add Player.
3. Edit ID opens a number pad — type the Player ID and confirm. Entering 0 empties the slot.

Watched & locked-in players

In Player Mode each player has three states. Long-press the upper part of the main screen to cycle the displayed player through them (white → green → pink → green → white):

• Off (white) — not watched; no notifications and no auto-switch.
• Watched (green) — notifications fire and the screen auto-switches to this player on their events. This is the W mark in the Member List.
• Lock-in (pink) — the screen pins to this player. While locked in, other watched players never pull the screen away and their notifications are held — perfect when two of your players are in action at once. Switching off lock-in moves to the next active watched player automatically.

Both Watched (green) and Lock-in (pink) can also be set from the Member List. In Team Mode every player of your team is watched automatically.

5. Main Screen

The main screen is the single-game view built around one player — you reach it by following a player (Player Mode) or team (Team Mode), or by opening a live game from the home list; BACK returns to the home list. One screen shows the whole game, split into two halves — and knowing which is which matters, because most touch actions are tied to a region.

• Top half — header: the clock, the displayed player's name, the game status (start time / live inning / final result), and the line-score scoreboard.
• Bottom half — the live area: the diamond in the center (runners + B-S-O count), with the current pitcher on the left and the current batter on the right — each name colored by the top / bottom of the inning (see What the screen shows), with live stats and an order number.

Live (pitcher) Live (batter) Game over

What the screen shows

The two Live tabs are the same main screen with a pitcher featured and with a batter featured. Two things are worth comparing — the top / bottom colors, and the extra information shown for your own team's player.

• Colors = top / bottom of the inning: the pitcher's name (left) and the batter's name (right) are colored by the top / bottom of the inning — top (bats first) = blue, bottom (bats second) = red. The batter takes the current half's color and the pitcher the opposite, so the two sides swap colors when the inning flips — the color shows the half, not who is pitching. Only the displayed player's name at the very top is colored by its watch state instead: green = watched, pink = locked-in, white = neither.
• Header: clock, the displayed player's name (+ order #), the live status, then the scoreboard. The live status reads "At Bat" plus that game's at-bat results (OUT, K, 1B …) for a batter, or "Pitching …" for a pitcher. When the featured player is on your own team, a game line is added: a batter's AB / H / HR / RBI, or a pitcher's IP / K / H / ER. The scoreboard is the line score with the R total; the score also slides sideways to reveal H (hits) and E (errors).
• Pitcher (left) / batter (right) — extra info for your team: both lower corners list live stats. The opponent shows the basics (batter: AVG / RBI / HR / H; pitcher: ERA / P / K / H). Your own side — the followed player in Player Mode, your team in Team Mode — gains a season metric: a batting line shows OPS in place of RBI, and a pitching line adds WHIP. The bottom row is the pitching order (P1, P2 …) or batting order (#), in the same top / bottom color as the name.

6. Notifications & Effects

Real-time notifications

When a watched player steps to the plate or takes the mound, and when they produce a result — hit, home run, walk, strikeout and more — the watch vibrates, plays a tone, and switches the screen to that player. Home runs ring stronger than hits; appearances ring lighter.

How notifications behave is set in Settings → Notification:

Event effects (animations)

Big moments get a celebration on top of the notification:

• Single — bronze ball, with confetti (about 5 seconds)
• Double — silver ball, with confetti
• Triple — gold ball, with confetti
• Home run — diamond (gem) ball, with fireworks and confetti
• Strikeout — white ball with a red K, swing-and-miss slashes, plus a snappy vibration (about 2.4 seconds). Fires when your pitcher records a strikeout.
• Stolen base — speed lines and a dust burst (about 3 seconds), when a watched runner steals.
• Your team's win — a waving flag with fireworks (Team Mode), a short while after your team's game ends in a win.
• At-bat result text — a highlighted banner for at-bats that have no animation of their own (routine outs, walks and the like): the result is shown big with the batter's name for a few seconds, so you can see who did what before the display moves to the next batter. On-base results (walk, HBP, error, fielder's choice) are green, outs orange; a gentle vibration and a low tone go with it.

Statcast on the play

Hit and home-run animations overlay the batted-ball data — the exit velocity (mph), and for home runs the distance (ft) too. And on the live main screen, the last pitch's speed and type (e.g. 96 FOUR) show by home plate inside the diamond, so you can read the radar gun every pitch. When the stadium doesn't supply this data, the figures simply don't appear.

The pitch type is shown as a 4-letter code:

7. Browse Mode

Peek at any player in the current game — step through the batting or pitching order, or check a runner — without losing the live view. The score, count and runners keep updating while you browse. There are two ways to drive it, by touch or by buttons; the feature is the same.

By touch

By buttons — the selection frame

Long-press UP and a selection frame appears on the field — handy mid-run or whenever touch is awkward. Move the frame to any on-field player (batter, pitcher, runners) and confirm.

The browsed player's day — at-bat results so far, live stats — appears in the main area, so you can review the whole lineup between pitches.

8. Inning History

Press START on the main screen to replay the whole game, half-inning by half-inning — both teams included. In Team Mode it shows your team's game; in Player Mode, the displayed player's game.

Reading the screen

• Header: the batting team's abbreviation + the half-inning — TOP n in cyan, BOT n in red, so you always know which side is up.
• Each row: batting-order number, batter's name, and the result code. +1 / +2 after the code is the RBI count.
• Base-running rows: some rows show a runner's move instead of an at-bat — the runner's name with a code such as SB2 (stole 2nd). Steals, pickoffs and wild-pitch advances appear before the batter, tag-ups and outs on the bases after — all in event order.
• Bottom: P: the pitcher who threw that half-inning. A mid-inning relief shows both, e.g. Dreyer>Klein. Below it, 3 OUTS (in red) marks a completed inning, or - in progress - for the current one.

Result codes

Hits glow green, home runs gold — scan an inning at a glance and spot where the damage happened.

Navigation

9. Team Mode

Follow a whole team instead of individual players. Set your team in Settings → Favorite Team, then set Settings → Track Mode to Team.

• The 20 slots fill automatically with today's lineup (batting order 1–9) and the pitchers — substitutions included as the game goes on.
• Live, the screen auto-focuses your team's current batter when batting and your pitcher when fielding.
• Every player of your team is watched — all notifications and event animations (chapter 6) are active, including the strikeout K for your pitcher.

Division standings

Open the settings menu (tap the upper area) and choose Standings. Each row shows a team's abbreviation, win–loss record, games behind (GB) and current streak; the header names the division.

10. Detail Screen

Long-press the center of the diamond to open the displayed player's detail screen — it also works while browsing another player.

• At Bats — every at-bat result of today's game (AB 1: Walk, AB 2: Flyout, ...)
• Game Pitching — for pitchers: pitch count, strikes, strike %, decision, walks, HBP and home runs allowed
• Season — season totals: AVG / HR / RBI / OPS for batters, W-L / ERA / IP / K / WHIP / SV for pitchers

Batter Pitcher

Add / remove from your Player Mode list

At the bottom of the detail screen is a button — Add (green) when the player isn't in your Player Mode list, or Remove (red) when they are. Long-press the button to toggle. Adding also turns that player's watch (notifications) on; removing turns it off. If the list is already full (20 players), a List Full message appears instead. This makes Team Mode handy for discovery — open a teammate's detail and add them to your personal list in one long-press. START or BACK closes the detail screen.

11. Pitch View

The pitch view turns the live area into a pitch-by-pitch chart of the current at-bat. From the main screen, tap the center of the diamond to open it (a long-press there opens the detail screen instead — chapter 10). Tap anywhere in the live area or press BACK to return to the normal live view.

What the pitch view shows

• Strike zone (3×3): each pitch of the current at-bat is plotted where it crossed the plate, color-coded by result — ball, strike, foul, or in-play — and numbered in order. The latest pitch is ringed.
• Pitch history list: the number and pitch type of each pitch, on the free side of the screen, colored to match its marker.
• Speed & type: right after a new pitch, its speed and type appear for a few seconds where the count normally sits, then the count returns.
• Names & stats: the pitcher (left) and batter (right) with the same stats as the normal live view, plus the batter's stance (RHB / LHB) or the pitcher's throwing hand (RHP / LHP).
• Count & bases: the B-S-O count and a compact three-diamond base indicator (a base lights up yellow when a runner is on it) sit at the bottom.

12. Settings

Almost everything is set on the watch: tap the top of the home list, or the upper part of the main screen, to open the settings menu. Each entry shows its current value, and single-value items (Track Mode, Notification) toggle in place when you select them.

These items live in the phone's Connect IQ settings panel:

13. Troubleshooting

The screen shows Waiting... / no game

The player's team simply has no game today, or the day's games haven't started. The screen shows the start time once a game is scheduled.

Data stops updating

Check that the watch is connected to Garmin Connect Mobile and the phone has internet. During a live game updates flow about every 15 seconds — and about every 5 seconds while your player is at bat or on the mound (see the update-interval table in chapter 1).

No notifications arrive

Check Settings → Notification isn't set lower than you expect, and — in Player Mode — that the player has the W (watch) flag in the Member List. In Team Mode all players notify automatically.

A registered player never shows data

The Player ID is probably wrong. Look the player up by name with the homepage lookup tool and re-enter the exact numeric ID (Member List → Edit ID).

Inning history says No game today

The team being looked up (your favorite team, or the displayed player's team) has no game today. During off days the history has nothing to show.

An animation didn't play

Effects play for watched batters' hits and homers, and for your pitcher's strikeouts, during live games. While you're browsing or the selection frame is open, effects hold back so they don't interrupt you — the vibration and tone still fire.

Trial expired

Subscribe on the homepage ($1.49/month), enter the emailed key in Connect IQ settings → License Key, and restart the app. Your players and settings are still on the watch and come back after activation.

Managing / cancelling the subscription

Use the Stripe Customer Portal — the link is in your activation email and every Stripe receipt. Cancelling keeps full access until the end of the paid period.