Those get up and yell moments...

[Majingir]

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How often are balls hit up in the zone hit for groundballs?

I looked at my batter chart stuff and it seems like half my ground balls were balls hit in the upper part of the strikezone. While the AI has half their groundballs hit in the bottom part of their strike zone.

And the AI gets 2-3 groundball hits a game while if I'm lucky, I'll get 1 groundball hit(cause the AI can dive like crazy and make Prince Fielder field like he's derek jeter and stuff like that)

[tbbucsfan001]

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Tommy Hanson no-hitter through 5.2. R.A. Dickey then proceeds to fist a slow line-drive right by Freddie. I got up and yelled at Freddie for what seemed like a half an hour. Got the one-hitter on 78 pitches, though. So depressing...

[AC]

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I just had a no no going with Brett Cecil. I got the inevitable ball to third, Lawrie does the "not gonna dive, I got it- No, no I don't. Gotcha!" animation. He could have got it if he had dove. I was pissed.

[daenius]

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Yesterday, playing the rubber match of a 3-game series against the Rangers in Arlington with my Yankees.

I am playing on All-Star so I have an affinity of blaming the game/developers whenever I have a big lead and for SOME reason the AI starts reaching base on slow dribblers and chased breaking balls way out of the zone and racking up unfathomable hitting streaks in the 8th or 9th innings after getting 2-3 hits max during the rest of the game (I am still convinced that there are at least a certain amount of events that are "scripted" to increase the difficulty for a short period of time during a game from All-Star difficulty upwards - see game below).

Anyway, I was up 6-2 in the bottom of the 8th. I pulled Nova (7.0 IP, 4H, 2ER, 5K) and brought on Phelps. Then it started.

The Rangers absolutely destroyed me, as they scored 5 runs on a crapload of ridiculous hits/errors/you name it. I think 3 or 4 hits were JUST over the head of my 1B or 3B player to left/right field, just enough to score a single and later on the runs. Then things like my infielders not being able to pick up a slow ground ball started happening. Chavez mishandled a ground ball, Jeter overshot Cano from 2 feet away on a potentially inning-ending double play, the outfielder animations for picking a ball up were SUPER-slow all of a sudden, making 1-2 easy runs possible, etc, etc, etc.

I was fuming, and all of a sudden I was behind 6-7. And OF COURSE, just after the leading run had scored for the Rangers, Hamilton strikes out looking on an 0-2 fastball right down the middle. Yeah, right. What are the odds.

Top of the 9th and I had the top of the order up with Gardner, Jeter and Grandy.

Gardner and Jeter both lined out and just when I was about to ragequit I worked a walk with Granderson, stole 2nd and moved to 3rd on a single by Cano. And then came Swisher.

2 outs, 3-2 count and he blasts a towering 3-run homer to straight centerfield to give me the lead. I fistpumped so hard and so many times my arm hurts today

I hung on for the win, although Robertson gave up a run before closing it out for the 9-8 win in the bottom of the 9th.

[MachoMyers]

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I get up and yell basically every home run I hit. Playing as the M's it is a very rare occurrence.

[JG1986]

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I was fuming, and all of a sudden I was behind 6-7. And OF COURSE, just after the leading run had scored for the Rangers, Hamilton strikes out looking on an 0-2 fastball right down the middle. Yeah, right. What are the odds.

This! ^ I'm not saying there is any comeback code or any scripted events. But my God, does this happen all the time, lol and it drives me crazy.

[Majingir]

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^That seems to happen alot. The AI plays like a little kid, whose just like "Let me score ___ runs so I can tie up the game,or even lead by 1, then I'll get out for the rest of the inning".

[AC]

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^That seems to happen alot. The AI plays like a little kid, whose just like "Let me score ___ runs so I can tie up the game,or even lead by 1, then I'll get out for the rest of the inning".

When it happens to me, they normally go up 6.....

...I think it's time to consider that just I suck at the game.

[Majingir]

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I thought you meant, you were losing by a score of 6-7(meaning you had 6,they had 7)

Pitching difficulty is one thing I don't get. Cause when I play on veteran, my guy seems to be able to hit his location so much, but he also gives up a fair amount of runs. So don't know if increasing difficulty will make a big difference or what,and if it did, how i'd fix that.

[rockienaut]

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The thing that angers me is how every shortstop is able to make Troy Tulowitzki-like throws (field the ball, turn around, jump and throw a laser to 1st). It's maddening.

[xboxxerx]

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Those moments when you check swing and the umps calk you. But the AI check swings worse and gets a safe call.

[AC]

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Those moments when you check swing and the umps calk you. But the AI check swings worse and gets a safe call.

Agreed! The Umpire Close Calls were WAY WAY WAY overdone this year... The option should be listed as Umpire Bad Calls smh.

[Greencollarbaseball]

It was during my perfect game with my rtts pitcher on the White Sox AAA team.

1 out in the top of the 9th the batter hits a shot down the third base line, my third baseman makes a diving stop gets to his feet and throws the guy out by half a step.
The whole time I'm going, " get it, get it, yes yes yes!!!". My wife is staring at my like, you're such a *******.


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[HechticSooner]

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It was during my perfect game with my rtts pitcher on the White Sox AAA team.

1 out in the top of the 9th the batter hits a shot down the third base line, my third baseman makes a diving stop gets to his feet and throws the guy out by half a step.
The whole time I'm going, " get it, get it, yes yes yes!!!". My wife is staring at my like, you're such a *******.


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Man at times like this I wish you could turn off the profanity filter.

[Coper3000]

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Mine might be a little different, but I can't tell you how frustrating it is to see a good pitcher in the minor leagues succeed then get crushed in their first 2 starts in the bigs, haha. I've probably played close to 75 games in my A's franchise between the minors and majors, and Peacock has been as close to unhittable in AAA as you can get (supporting a 8-3 records, 3.14 ERA, and a low walk/decent K rate. First 2 starts combined in the majors looked like: 7IP, 15 hits, 9 runs, a good amount of BBs, and a high pitch total every inning it seems like. Maybe next start! Haha.