Clarify something about Directional Hitting for me please

[Madden's Jowels]

If I want to hit a fly ball, do I always hold up even if the pitch is low?

I usually guess high and inside fastball. When I guess right, I move the camera up and in and swing with early timing it's yack city. Goodbye baseball.

Sometimes I'll guess low-inside, or I'll guess high-inside but it will still register a middle-in or even slightly low-in fastball and I will move the camera low/inside to "center" the ball where I'm trying to swing. But I ALWAYS hit a grounder here instead of ever getting a homer or line drive. Do I need to hold up and inside even if the pitch is low-ish? I feel like these are pitches you see guys, especially lefties with their low arcing swings, get underneath and take out of the park all the time, so I must be doing something wrong on these lower pitches.

[Orange Krush]

Re: Clarify something about Directional Hitting for me please

You push the stick up to influence a fly ball and down to influence a ground ball. If you're trying to point the stick into the location of where the pitch is then you are doing it wrong. That is how you use zone hitting, not directional.

[Madden's Jowels]

Re: Clarify something about Directional Hitting for me please

I think I got my answer. Guessed right on a low slider, like knee height, pushed up against all of my instincts, and pulled a homer to right.

[Madden's Jowels]

Re: Clarify something about Directional Hitting for me please

You push the stick up to influence a fly ball and down to influence a ground ball. If you're trying to point the stick into the location of where the pitch is then you are doing it wrong. That is how you use zone hitting, not directional.

Yeah I know how zone works, but I had been under the assumption that directional was like a simplified "cousin" of zone where you didn't have to put the PCI right on the ball but it would do similar things. I guess I was way off base.