I made a free Mac menu bar app that keeps the Astros score in the corner of your screen all game (green when we're winning, red when we're not)
Retired the constant phone-checking during games and built this instead. It lives in your Mac's menu bar and the icon isthe scoreboard — during a game it shows the actual score and inning, colored green when the Astros are up, red when they're down, yellow when it's tied. 2-5 ▼7 at a glance while you're pretending to work.
Click it and you get:
- Today's game — matchup, probable starters, records, TV (Space City, etc.)
- Live detail — runners, count, outs, who's pitching vs who's batting
- Lineups as soon as they post, next 10 games, rotation with ERAs
- Every MLB game today — live/final/upcoming, our game starred
- Standings + Magic Numbers — division, playoff berth, wild card, #1 seed, updated all season
- Notifications (all optional) — game starting, Astros score, finals, lineup posted
- Game Text — one click writes a witty message about the game state to your clipboard for the group chat
Free, open source (MIT), no ads, no accounts, no tracking — it just reads the public MLB Stats API. Signed and notarized, so it installs like any normal Mac app: download, unzip, drag to Applications.
Download: https://github.com/gyndok/astros-menubar/releases/latest
(Apple Silicon Macs; Intel folks can run it from source — instructions in the repo)
Happy to answer questions or take feature requests. Go Stros 🚀