Names for the number 0 in English no authoritative evidence that there has ever been any such word in Scots in the first place. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of the word "love" in English to mean "zero" was to define how a game was to be played, rather than the score in the game itself. Gambling games could be played for stakes (money) or "for love (of the game)", i.e. for zero stakes. The first such recorded usage quoted in the OED was in 1678. The shift in meaning from "zero stakes" to "zero score" is not an enormous conceptual leap, and
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