# Sports Game Box Score & Live State API

> Sports Game Box Score & Live State API is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns deep single-game state including box score, status, period/inning, team totals, statistical leaders, and injuries for a given league and game ID.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/sports/game
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sports-game-box-score-live-state-api-4258b15b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_a4doHvKDR7Ys61DTFVW68

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability sports-game-box-score-live-state-api-4258b15b
```

Example prompt: Pull up the full box score for NBA game 401547623 — I want the current status, team totals, statistical leaders, and any reported injuries.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the richest, most comprehensive per-game view for a single game — combining live status, box score, team totals, statistical leaders, and injuries in one normalized call. Prefer this over /sports/scores (which covers multiple games at once) or /sports/schedule (which covers schedules) when you need deep detail on one specific game. Ideal for post-game recaps, live game tracking, or player/team performance analysis for a known game ID.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'league' parameter returns a 400 validation error
- Invalid or unrecognized game_id returns a 404 or empty result
- Requesting a game from an unsupported league (not mlb/nhl/nfl/nba/epl) returns a validation error
- Game not yet started may return limited data with scheduled status
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC payment is not completed
- Rate limiting if too many requests are made in quick succession

## How this service works

Deep single-game state for one game by its id, normalized to one cited JSON. Give a league and a game_id and get the box-score numbers, the status and period or inning, team totals, statistical leaders and any reported injuries. The richest per-game view, fused from the league API or ESPN.

## Output

A normalized JSON object containing the game's current status (live/final/scheduled), current period or inning, full box score numbers, team totals, top statistical leaders by category, and any reported player injuries — all fused from the league API or ESPN into a single cited response.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "league"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Alias for game_id"
      },
      "league": {
       "enum": [
        "mlb",
        "nhl",
        "nfl",
        "nba",
        "epl"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "League key. One of the supported major leagues."
      },
      "game_id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The game id, as returned by /sports/scores or /sports/schedule for this league."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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