Stopping the big inning

[cardinalbird5]

Re: Stopping the big inning

That is kind of my theory too, but I go by pitch confidence more than anything. If you execute the pitch with good place then majority of the time it will be have good results. I read some posts on here saying to throw more offspeed pitches and I tried that for about a week in my chise with not favorable results. Again, I didn't really track it, so it is hard to prove or show the discrepancies.

Was his 2 seamer not high with pitch confidence or was it low? It sounded like you meant that the CPU was picking up 2 seamer, so you stopped throwing it.

Regardless, I just don't really buy into the CPU picking up sequences on our end. If you want to experience this then you need to face a human opponent. It is totally different.

[mizzouj]

Re: Stopping the big inning

I think there may be a little something to this 7th inning thing. Now multiple games in a row this has happened to me. Cruising through 6 with a low pitch count, then the 7th hits. CPU immediately starts getting guys on base then no matter who comes up to the plate and were the pitch is, it's leaving the yard. Just had Willie Bloomquist take a low cut fastball off the outside corner out of the park to the opposite field on me. That would absolutely never happen. Then basically the same thing happened the next game.

I was shaking up my pitches and hitting my spots. But I may as well have been throwing BP to roided up Barry Bonds. Nothing I could have done was going to stop the CPU from scoring. And once they got back into the game, suddenly they couldn't hit anymore, even if a pitch was grooved right over the middle.

Does this happen? Of course. But basically every time I go into the late innings with a decent sized lead? Interesting.

[KBLover]

Re: Stopping the big inning

If you execute the pitch with good place then majority of the time it will be have good results.

I use classic so there's no "execution" on my end except pushing the button for long or short time.

[NEOPARADIGM]

Re: Stopping the big inning

I believe it's all about strategy. I don't think this has ever been discussed, but maybe the game is coded where if you leave your starter in too long or put in the wrong reliever than the games are scripted to give a big inning? Idk, it actually sounds stupid as I say it, but who knows?

I don't know if it's coded that way or not but I play and manage exactly as if it were the case, where something as trivial as getting someone up and throwing in the bullpen can effect how an at-bat or inning plays out.

[BA2929]

Re: Stopping the big inning

I've had this issue with Jason Vargas a few times in the past month of my franchise.

I'll be dominating for 3-4 innings and then all of a sudden he's getting smacked around. Usually I'll give up 2-3 hits, then I'll start getting frustrated and just heaving hittable stuff up there like Henry Rowengartner after his arm lost the juice.

I have to consciously make myself throw good pitches in the zone, because once it starts going bad it seems like the CPU hitters turn into Tony Gwynn and never swing at anything out of the zone close.

It'll happen in real life too, so I don't think it's a game glitch like some have said.

[mizzouj]

Re: Stopping the big inning

I've had this issue with Jason Vargas a few times in the past month of my franchise.

I'll be dominating for 3-4 innings and then all of a sudden he's getting smacked around. Usually I'll give up 2-3 hits, then I'll start getting frustrated and just heaving hittable stuff up there like Henry Rowengartner after his arm lost the juice.

I have to consciously make myself throw good pitches in the zone, because once it starts going bad it seems like the CPU hitters turn into Tony Gwynn and never swing at anything out of the zone close.

It'll happen in real life too, so I don't think it's a game glitch like some have said.

I don't think it's a glitch by any means. Just think some of situational programming is a bit over exaggerated. Like on higher levels of pitching, once the CPU starts hitting, the flood gates open and it's very hard to limit the damage to 1-2 runs. I think the programming is correct though. Pitchers lose confidence and get less sharp, and MLB hitters usually capitalize.

Like I said, I just think it's a bit over exaggerated at times. Specifically when the CPU gets 2+ runners on and is behind by a few runs. I pretty much feel helpless regardless of who is on the mound or who is at the plate.

[KBLover]

Re: Stopping the big inning

Like I said, I just think it's a bit over exaggerated at times. Specifically when the CPU gets 2+ runners on and is behind by a few runs. I pretty much feel helpless regardless of who is on the mound or who is at the plate.

Worst comes to worst, I'll just aim down the middle and max effort. If he's gone wild, it ain't gonna be in the middle anyway - I just don't know where it's going to be at all LOL. So I can't set guys up, etc. It's "throwing" instead of "pitching" but...gotta do what it takes sometimes.

I try to get "effectively wild" and hope for the best. An out or even a hard hit ball that turns into a DP or something works as far as the game goes (I don't think real pitchers think that way, but the confidence system does, so...)

Plus, if I've been pounding the zone too much, then being "effectively wild" might net some close-enough chases that could turn things as well.