When fielding after a hit, the defensive player closest to the ball will flash to show it is the one currently under control.

was one of the first baseball video games to incorporate the perspective from the pitcher's mound, similar to MLB broadcasts.

[4] It went on to become Accolade's best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987,[5] and by 1989 had surpassed 500,000 units sold.

four-plus stars out of five, stating that it "is easily the best baseball simulation we have seen to date for the 64/128" and praising its graphics.

's Apple Applications stated that the Apple II and Macintosh versions had "almost everything you could want from a baseball simulation", with good support for playing as manager, player, or statistician and "exceptionally clear and precise graphics".

[10] The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #132 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.

[11] MegaTech gave the Genesis version a score of 75% writing: "A decent baseball game which doesn’t have enough novel or interesting features to make it appeal to anyone other than real fans of the sport.

"[13] The game appears in the opening scene of the 1987 film The Princess Bride, being played by Fred Savage.