Facing Kershaw

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Funny how the game seems to mirror a typical Kershaw outing in the real world. Most times I face him, the early innings are the ones to get to him. He leaves a lot of pitches out over the plate, pitches you can really get some wood on. From the 3rd or 4th inning on, though, he starts to locate his pitches. It gets really tough to get anything going off him after that, especially that slider to left-handed hitters.

CPU often pulls him much earlier than I ever would, and I'm always thankful for that.

On a side note, it's too bad that the "fast-play" option doesn't speed up his delivery from the stretch.

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Re: Facing Kershaw

Funny how the game seems to mirror a typical Kershaw outing in the real world. Most times I face him, the early innings are the ones to get to him. He leaves a lot of pitches out over the plate, pitches you can really get some wood on. From the 3rd or 4th inning on, though, he starts to locate his pitches. It gets really tough to get anything going off him after that, especially that slider to left-handed hitters.

On a side note, it's too bad that the "fast-play" option doesn't speed up his delivery from the stretch.

Confidence is the reason it can work like this. It's the same for the user as well - when you get outs and don't give up hits confidence goes up and the ability to locate pitches improves. If you get hit in the first couple innings BEFORE you can work confidence up, locating can often be a struggle throughout the game.

Guys with high H/9 and dominating stuff like Kershaw and Arrieta obviously find it a lot easier to get into one of those grooves. But even they can be vulnerable early on.