A kids' baseball podcast

Box Score Brains

Baseball IQ, scores, standings, stats, and trivia for kids. Short episodes for the ride to school or baseball practice. Listen with your family, teammates, and coaches, to be the smartest kid at practice!

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Featured episode

MLB Postseason 2026 for Kids: Meet the Team, Meet the Twelve

Sep 29, 2026 ยท 9:57

The MLB postseason starts today, and this special episode gets kids ready for all of it. Meet the Box Score Brains team, learn how October works (seeds, byes, home-field advantage, and how many games a champion might have to play), and meet all twelve playoff teams, from the 103-win Brewers to the Dodgers' try for a three-peat. Plus the hitters and pitchers to watch, a true-or-false trivia question, and a challenge: print the free bracket at boxscorebrains.com, pick your World Series winner, and send it in for the Jumbotron.

For kids

Built for the box score

Real games, real stats, explained in a way that turns curious kids into the sharpest fan at the table -- plus a Baseball IQ Challenge every episode to test what they've learned.

For parents

Keep up, without the homework

A few minutes a day covers the scores, the standings, and the storylines -- so you're never caught flat-footed at dinner.

Every fact checked

Produced with AI, directed by humans.

Written and produced with AI, directed and curated by humans. Every fact is checked against MLB records before it airs. Read more about how it's made.

Football and basketball

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Free all season, thanks to boosters

Grown-ups: if your family enjoys the show, you can chip in on Patreon, or just leave a rating. Ways to help.