Alarming number of balls hitting the pitcher

[DirkDiggler12]

Sorry if this has been covered already but has anyone else noticed an alarming number of balls bouncing off the pitcher again this year? In one game of my dodgers franchise I hit the pitcher 3 times before the 4th inning.

On the plus side, I did hit the starting pitcher in the face and he did leave the game in the 1st which is better than last year when a hit pitcher never left the game. But I'm still seeing a high amount of balls hitting the pitcher and becoming outs.

[MLB14]

Re: Alarming number of balls hitting the pitcher

After playing 30 or so games, I'd say it happens a lot less this year.

[JDL375]

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Yeah, the ball bounces so unrealistically when it hits the pitcher. In MLB The Show, when I hit a ball off the pitcher, it ricochets DIRECTLY to an infielder and I get thrown out 100% of the time.

I've never hit a ball off the pitcher in MLB the Show and actually had my batter be safe at first. In MLB in real life, I would say that the high majority of balls hit off of the pitcher do not end being converted into outs at first, and they certainly do not go perfectly to another infielder at the rate that they do in The Show.

[allstardad]

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I think its toned down a degree from previous years, but it still happens far too much for my liking. At times pitchers become hockey goalies with kick saves and the likes.

Cpu gets out when it happens, I usually don't as I'm having fielders run the wrong direction lol

[daddies3angels]

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down from last year but one thing I notice is the Catchers having Cat like Reflexes. They jump out on bunts and choppers so easy

[NEOPARADIGM]

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The ball totally just hit the pitcher twice in the game I'm watching. Not even joking; totally coincidental.

Otherwise, I'm not seeing this with any regularity. You're hitting the pitcher a lot because you're hitting the pitcher a lot - just like some other guy might popping out to the catcher with "alarming regularity," your timing is such that you're hitting the ball straight back up the middle; you clearly could have pulled or sliced each and every one of those balls. Your timing will adjust and you'll stop hitting the pitcher with any regularity.

This is a game with obscene variation; it always feels like people come here after they notice some 10- or 20-game trend when if they just waited a bit they'd see the instances even out. And I mean you're talking about one game here, think about that.

It's like a couple years ago, people actually posted that they were worried the ball was going to bounce off the bags too much when they introduced that mechanic, because they saw it happen like three times in two games; little did they know they'd never see it happen again over their next 200 games. That kinda thing.

[XxJustAguessxX]

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3 times in one inning.

[MrOldboy]

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This has always been the case. There just aren't any animations where the pitcher actually avoids the ball as in real life. Picking up the feet, etc. There are some, but they are only visual and the trigger often when the ball is already well past them.

I'm not sure what the solution to this is beyond just having some balls clip through the pitcher or at least his limbs. Would look funky, but so does seeing the pitcher get hit multiple times in a game. In full motion I bet it would look fine though, just odd in replays.

[allstardad]

Re: Alarming number of balls hitting the pitcher

This has always been the case. There just aren't any animations where the pitcher actually avoids the ball as in real life. Picking up the feet, etc. There are some, but they are only visual and the trigger often when the ball is already well past them.

I'm not sure what the solution to this is beyond just having some balls clip through the pitcher or at least his limbs. Would look funky, but so does seeing the pitcher get hit multiple times in a game. In full motion I bet it would look fine though, just odd in replays.

I wouldn't mind them having the ball clip through the pitcher at this point. I know they have tried changing the ball physics hoping it would help, and it did, but I still feel that it happens all too frequently.

[caseyj622]

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I've played around 10 games and it has only happened once or twice. However, I have noticed a lot of comeback grounders that the pitcher fields and throws out at first.

[Pared]

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3 times in one inning.

Between NBA2k and this game, you sure do see a lot of bad things that a small sample of players would even mention. Maybe you should be a bug tester because you see some strange things in your games.

Or, maybe you just like to exaggerate

[dalger21]

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I've played 1 year and a half of RttS and it has happened twice. Most times it just goes up the middle or they catch it.

[ManiacMatt1782]

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I hit a ton of balls back up the middle, and only a few have hit the pitcher, I actually think it is toned down a ton from last year.