ground ball to short, to second, to second, to second, to second

[jim416]

Okay, I can't do a preloaded throw to save my butt. Most of the time I can't get the ball out of the secondbasemans glove to turn two. Somebody shoot me............

What's the key.

[brunnoce]

Re: ground ball to short, to second, to second, to second, to second

auto throwing... LOL!!
thats what i use anyway...

[jim416]

Re: ground ball to short, to second, to second, to second, to second

CHEATER!!!!, lol.

I've always liked the AUTO field and MANUAL throw. Anybody?

[Rob_NYY]

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So many people are having problems with this. I've never had problems with this at all, not once. I wonder what we are doing different.

[jim416]

Re: ground ball to short, to second, to second, to second, to second

Well, tell me what you are doing. Because I can pound on the button to throw to first base and he just stands on the base. It's probably a timing thing, but it happens a lot.

[JOEdellis]

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I swipe the buttons, yes SWIPE and i can throw fine.

[Gleebo]

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I use auto fielding and manual throw.

I also was having same problem as you, I figured out that you can not press the button to early, if you do the guy just hold ont onto the ball...I hit the throw button just as the ball gets to the fielder. Its all timing, you will get used to it.

[kennyacid]

Re: ground ball to short, to second, to second, to second, to second

heres what u do as soon as u press triangle to throw to 2nd, keep pressing circle and u should be fine

[Gary Armida]

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Unfortunately Jim, it is a timing thing. Most times I hit it right, but tonight I don't and Cano lets Orlando Cabrera beat out a routine GB.

I try to time it by pressing when the ball is about to hit the glove. Good luck dude. It will come.

[Joepman]

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Every once in a while I get tripped up.

It's best to not assume that that first button press will work. The suggestion above to tap the circle button a few times is a good one.

I just sometimes forget to do it.

[capa]

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The only way I've found around this is to hit the button twice. It's almost as if you have to tell it where to throw and then hit it again to actually throw...

[HokieB]

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I actually switched from manual to auto fielding last night (I find the cons outweigh the pros of manual fielding), and let me tell you, the timing is totally different to turn 2 on auto. With manual, I would hold circle down well before the ball got to 2nd base and it would work just fine, but with auto fielding the guy just holds on to the ball.
The good news is that it just takes some practice. Start up a game where you switch to the team on the field every half-inning, int walk the first guy, and get some practice turning two. My new rule of thumb at this point is to not hit circle until the guy at 2nd has that "circle thingy" around him. The natural tendency is to press circle to early, but it just takes patience.

[pberardi]

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heres what u do as soon as u press triangle to throw to 2nd, keep pressing circle and u should be fine

If it's timing, is the timing when the "Big Circle" appears around the 2nd baseman and hitting the 0 button? I do hit circle several times but sometimes the 2nd baseman throws the ball into the stands.

[nemesis04]

Re: ground ball to short, to second, to second, to second, to second

Well, tell me what you are doing. Because I can pound on the button to throw to first base and he just stands on the base. It's probably a timing thing, but it happens a lot.

When do you press for the second baseman to throw to first? The throwing system is so dependent on pre-loading because of all the cpu controlled animations. If you do not tell it what to do ahead of time, your player stands there like a doof.

On a double play ball to the ss, you have to pre-load the throw to second before the ss gets the ball. When the throw is in the air to the 2b, you should already have pressed the button for first base. If the 2b already caught it, the cpu takes over for its animations and does not acknowledge the command to continue, causing you to have that pause.

Fielding is the one area I hope gets a redo, the cpu has too much input on the manual level.

[jujuhound]

Re: ground ball to short, to second, to second, to second, to second

When do you press for the second baseman to throw to first? The throwing system is so dependent on pre-loading because of all the cpu controlled animations. If you do not tell it what to do ahead of time, your player stands there like a doof.

On a double play ball to the ss, you have to pre-load the throw to second before the ss gets the ball. When the throw is in the air to the 2b, you should already have pressed the button for first base. If the 2b already caught it, the cpu takes over for its animations and does not acknowledge the command to continue, causing you to have that pause.

Fielding is the one area I hope gets a redo, the cpu has too much input on the manual level.

This is what I do, pre-load both the throw to second and to first. I have had the guy stand there once or twice, but not too often.