SCA offers a variety of baseball contests to build support for the home team and recognition for your organization. A promotional program tied to America's favorite pastime is proven to get both fans and sponsors into your game. Whether you want to build traffic, raise funds, generate publicity, or increase support, SCA will help create a fixed fee promotion to put you on course toward a championship season.
Fans love the chance to win, but if you really want to get fans excited about your team and your sponsor, then work in a shot at a big prize like a car, a dream home or even $1 million. You can do this for a fraction of the prize amount and really knock the return on your marketing dollar out of the park! When someone wins, SCA pays on your behalf.
These promotions are very easy to implement. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Contestant Participation
Get fans in on the action. Contestants can be randomly selected on game day or through pre-registration at designated sponsor locations.
Fan Home Run
Invite a randomly selected contestant to hit a home run from home plate to win the grand prize. Whether it's a pitcher or a machine pitching the ball, your contestant will have five pitches and three swings to hit the ball out of the park.
Rapid Fire™
In 30 seconds, each finalist throws as many baseballs as they can through a target at home plate. The promotion can be set up with an increasing prize pool: the more tosses they make, the more they win. Or, offer one big grand prize for making a certain number of successful tosses within the time limit.
Three Strikes You Win™
This contest challenges the fan to pitch three strikes from the pitching mound through a target at home plate.
Strike Out/Walk the Batter
Each contestant tries to strike the batter out before they get a walk. With six pitches, the contestant must throw three “strikes” before throwing four “balls.”
Online Contests
Get your audience stepping up to the plate and taking their best swing at any one of our great online contests. Whether you're looking to see who is best at predicting game winners, top scoring teams, or home run totals, we've got the bases covered. You make the call.
Baseball Target Toss
Baseball Toss challenges the contestant to pitch a ball through a target at home plate.
Customed Designed Program
SCA will help you customize a program to meet your specific objectives. We'll work with you to develop an effective promotion to gain exposure by offering a life-changing prize.
CASE STUDY
Radio Station Makes a Splash With Summer Promotion
This summer, SCA helped San Francisco radio station 680, the Sports Leader stay hot and Giants fans stay cool with the SplashHit promotion. This contest ran any time the Giants played the Diamondbacks at BankOne Ballpark in Phoenix. Rules called for the Giants to hit a home run into the ballpark's pool. If that happened, one lucky contestant would win a $6,000 HotSpring Spa, paid for by SCA. On Friday, July 5th, Giants player Rich Aurilla hit a home run. The ball landed in the pool and fan Cheryl Lawson won a brand new spa.
Player/Team Performance Programs
Tie the action on the field to a prize of cash or merchandise for a fan or customer. These contests are effective retail promotions and are also ideal for baseball organizations and their broadcasters. If one of these plays occurs, a lucky fan wins big.
Grand Slam Inning™
If a player on the designated team hits a grand slam in a specific inning, one lucky fan takes home the grand prize.
Sign Slammer
If a player hits a ball through a target in the outfield, such as a sponsor's billboard, a fan is rewarded – with cash – paid by SCA.
Conditional Rebate
Give your customers an added reason to shop with you. This fun and unique promotion offers buyers their money back on a particular purchase when a specified condition occurs. For example, when the home team wins the World Series, you're covered because SCA will pay the full cost of the customers' rebated purchases.
Hit for the Cycle
Hit for the Cycle gives a lucky fan a run for their money when a home team player hits a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in the same game.
Hot/Cold
Offer your fans a prize in a selected inning if your team can strike out the side and hit back-to-back home runs in the bottom half of the inning.
Foul Pole Contest™
Award a randomly selected fan when a home run hits the foul pole.
No Hitter
Reward a spectator when an ace pitcher achieves one of the greatest accomplishments in baseball – a no hitter.
Triple Play
When the home team retires the side in a single play, one randomly selected fan scores a large cash prize.
Nine Inning Special
Let SCA help you keep fans involved in the entire game with an all-day promotion. Incorporate a sponsor and SCA can help you with contest ideas for every inning. Award fans each inning based on the player's performance.
CASE STUDY
Nissan, partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, teamed with SCA to create “Nissan Day” at BankOne Ballpark in Phoenix. Fans received a chance to win a brand-new Nissan car each inning. Below is the promotion schedule that Nissan followed.
- 1st Inning - Inside the Park Home Run
- 2nd Inning - Triple Play
- 3rd Inning - Strike Out the Side
- 4th Inning - Grand Slam
- 5th Inning - Back to Back Home Runs
- 6th Inning - Steal Home Plate
- 7th Inning - Team Hit for the Cycle
- 8th Inning – Any Diamondback player producing two hits in an inning
- 9th Inning - Strike Out the Side
Call us to find out more about our variety of baseball contests and promotions.
