# MLB Stats Scraper — Games & Boxscores (`rocketapi/mlb-stats`) Actor

Extract MLB game schedules, final scores, inning-by-inning linescores, and player batting/pitching statistics for any team and season from the official MLB Stats API. Get team names, venues, and season stats as clean JSON. Failed runs are not billed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rocketapi/mlb-stats.md
- **Developed by:** [Antony Zaikin](https://apify.com/rocketapi) (community)
- **Categories:** Sports, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$8.00 / 1,000 record scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## MLB Stats Apify Actor

Fetches MLB team statistics from the official MLB Advanced Media API (`statsapi.mlb.com`).

### Features

- Resolves team by name, abbreviation, or numeric ID
- Retrieves schedule for a given season
- Filters for finished games (Final status)
- Optionally includes boxscore (player season statistics)
- Optionally includes linescore (inning-by-inning scoring)
- Handles API inconsistencies (406 errors) with retry logic
- Pay-per-event charging (`record-scraped`)

### Input

| Field | Type | Description | Default |
|-------|------|-------------|---------|
| `team` | string | Team name, abbreviation, or numeric ID (case-insensitive) | `NYY` |
| `season` | integer | MLB season year (e.g., 2026) | `2026` |
| `maxGames` | integer | Number of most recent finished games to process (1-30) | `5` |
| `includeBoxscore` | boolean | Fetch player statistics from boxscore endpoint | `true` |
| `includeLinescore` | boolean | Fetch inning-by-inning scoring from linescore endpoint | `true` |

### Output

Each record represents a game with the following structure:

```json
{
  "kind": "game",
  "gamePk": 824235,
  "date": "2026-08-24",
  "status": "Final",
  "homeTeam": "Detroit Tigers",
  "awayTeam": "Tampa Bay Rays",
  "homeScore": 0,
  "awayScore": 2,
  "venue": "Comerica Park",
  "innings": [
    {
      "num": 1,
      "home": { "runs": 0, "hits": 0, "errors": 1 },
      "away": { "runs": 2, "hits": 3, "errors": 0 }
    }
  ],
  "homePlayers": [
    {
      "personId": 667452,
      "fullName": "Corey Julks",
      "position": "LF",
      "batting": { "gamesPlayed": 3, "avg": ".333", ... },
      "pitching": { "gamesPlayed": 0, "era": "-.--", ... }
    }
  ],
  "awayPlayers": [ ... ]
}
```

If no finished games are found, a single `schedule_empty` record is pushed.

### Notes

- Uses only the public MLB API (`statsapi.mlb.com`) - no HTML parsing or headless browser
- Handles known API quirks (406 errors) by retrying with trailing slash in URL
- Implements exponential backoff for network errors and 5xx/429 responses
- Continues processing even if individual game data fails to fetch
- Charges `record-scraped` event for each successfully pushed record

### Example

Default input (New York Yankees, 2026 season, 5 most recent games):

```json
{}
```

</output>

# Actor input Schema

## `team` (type: `string`):

Team name, abbreviation (e.g. NYY), or numeric ID (case-insensitive). Defaults to NYY.

## `season` (type: `integer`):

MLB season year (e.g. 2026). Defaults to 2026.

## `maxGames` (type: `integer`):

Number of most recent finished games to process (1-30). Defaults to 5.

## `includeBoxscore` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch player batting/pitching statistics from the boxscore endpoint. Defaults to true.

## `includeLinescore` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch inning-by-inning scoring from the linescore endpoint. Defaults to true.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "team": "NYY",
  "season": 2026,
  "maxGames": 5,
  "includeBoxscore": true,
  "includeLinescore": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "team": "NYY",
    "season": 2026,
    "maxGames": 5
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rocketapi/mlb-stats").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "team": "NYY",
    "season": 2026,
    "maxGames": 5,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rocketapi/mlb-stats").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "team": "NYY",
  "season": 2026,
  "maxGames": 5
}' |
apify call rocketapi/mlb-stats --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rocketapi/mlb-stats"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FN6F5hN1zaOJbTiwn/builds/oZA85OtNn89jYCxCl/openapi.json