Names for the number 0 in English the score was not placed upon a scoreboard, and there is scant evidence that the French ever used "l'oeuf" as the name for a zero score in the first place, that name being as anecdotal as the hypothesis that "love" is then derived from it. (Jacob Bernoulli, for example, in his "Letter to a Friend", used "à but" to describe the initial zero–zero score in court tennis, which in English is "love-all".) Some alternative hypotheses have similar problems. For example: The assertion that "love" comes from the Scots word "luff", meaning "nothing", falls at the first hurdle, because there is
Game score to remain in games longer than today; four of the top six all-time game scores were accomplished in stints of 21 innings or more. Fourteen times in Major League Baseball history, a pitcher has achieved a game score of 100 or higher in a 9-inning game, as detailed here. Also included in the table is the game score according to version 2.0, which is described below. Results from this formula tend to be higher and must not be confused with those from the original Bill James formula. The total number of game scores listed for each pitcher are starts in