My First Triple Play
I've been playing baseball games since RBI back on the NES. I would say since "baseball" on the Atari, but that doesn't count in my opinion. It went RBI - RBI 2 - Bases Loaded (all) - Super Bases Loaded - Ken Griffey Baseball - Triple Play - MVP 05 - The Show 06 - MLB 2k7 and now of course MLB 2k8...
I all of those years, in all of those games...I've never turned a legit triple play. Maybe once in a night of drinking baseball due to "ineffective" baserunning, but never a true triple play. That all changed last night. I was playing as the Rangers and Vladimir Guerrero, a notorious Ranger killer was up with guys on 1st and 3rd. I had Hank Blalock shading toward short a bit and Michael Young playing him to go up the middle. Vladdy hit a LASER 2-hopper 2 Blalock who picked up the ball, tagged the advancing runner, flipped to Young at second and then JUST nipped Vladdy at first.
Of course I lost the game...which is par for the course for me right now. Instead of having 12-5 losses, at least it's been nice 5-3, 4-1 etc. type of games. I'm getting the hang of pitching and loving the game. Can't wait for the patch though.
I all of those years, in all of those games...I've never turned a legit triple play. Maybe once in a night of drinking baseball due to "ineffective" baserunning, but never a true triple play. That all changed last night. I was playing as the Rangers and Vladimir Guerrero, a notorious Ranger killer was up with guys on 1st and 3rd. I had Hank Blalock shading toward short a bit and Michael Young playing him to go up the middle. Vladdy hit a LASER 2-hopper 2 Blalock who picked up the ball, tagged the advancing runner, flipped to Young at second and then JUST nipped Vladdy at first.
Of course I lost the game...which is par for the course for me right now. Instead of having 12-5 losses, at least it's been nice 5-3, 4-1 etc. type of games. I'm getting the hang of pitching and loving the game. Can't wait for the patch though.
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