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  • MarinersFan
    Rookie
    • Mar 2003
    • 9

    #16
    Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

    Damn, this IS the hardest part of the game IMO. I can hit homeruns now on a realistic level and get strikeouts, but for the life of me I can't steal bases for anything.

    Ichiro has 4 stolen bases in 13 attempts...

    If anyone has mastered this, please help us out!

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    • MarinersFan
      Rookie
      • Mar 2003
      • 9

      #17
      Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

      Damn, this IS the hardest part of the game IMO. I can hit homeruns now on a realistic level and get strikeouts, but for the life of me I can't steal bases for anything.

      Ichiro has 4 stolen bases in 13 attempts...

      If anyone has mastered this, please help us out!

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      • Skyboxer
        Donny Baseball!
        • Jul 2002
        • 20302

        #18
        Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

        The main thing you have to do is get to the base before you are tagged... About the best tip I can give ya

        I am about 25% stealing... But man that's a lot better than making it 90% of the time...
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        • Skyboxer
          Donny Baseball!
          • Jul 2002
          • 20302

          #19
          Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

          The main thing you have to do is get to the base before you are tagged... About the best tip I can give ya

          I am about 25% stealing... But man that's a lot better than making it 90% of the time...
          Joshua:
          "D.O.D. pension files indicate current mailing as: Dr. Robert Hume,
          a.k.a. Stephen W. Falken, 5 Tall Cedar Road, Goose Island, Oregon"


          Skyboxer OS TWITCH
          STEAM
          PSN: Skyboxeros
          SWITCH 8211-0709-4612
          XBOX Skyboxer OS

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          • **DONOTDELETE**
            Hall Of Fame
            • Oct 2025
            • 19598

            #20
            Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

            It's so easy! Well not easy, but realistic. In 4 games in my franchise, Andruw Jones is 4-4, Furcal is 3-3 and Chipper Jones is 1-1. What's the problem? Just get a good jump, run on the right pitch, and slide head first to beat the tag.

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            • **DONOTDELETE**
              Hall Of Fame
              • Oct 2025
              • 19598

              #21
              Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

              It's so easy! Well not easy, but realistic. In 4 games in my franchise, Andruw Jones is 4-4, Furcal is 3-3 and Chipper Jones is 1-1. What's the problem? Just get a good jump, run on the right pitch, and slide head first to beat the tag.

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              • **DONOTDELETE**
                Hall Of Fame
                • Oct 2025
                • 19598

                #22
                Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

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                Ichiro has 4 stolen bases in 13 attempts...


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                Ouch! doesn't he have 99 speed?! what the hell are you doing over there?

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                • **DONOTDELETE**
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • Oct 2025
                  • 19598

                  #23
                  Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

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                  Ichiro has 4 stolen bases in 13 attempts...


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                  Ouch! doesn't he have 99 speed?! what the hell are you doing over there?

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                  • MarinersFan
                    Rookie
                    • Mar 2003
                    • 9

                    #24
                    Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

                    I don't know bro...

                    I never steal on the first pitch. I always try to work the count a bit and wait for a pitch that won't be a fastball.

                    I tap triangle to let Ichiro know he's going to steal... then I hit L2 repeatedly, and get the best possible jump I can. Always do a head first slide, but still get thrown out just barely!

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                    • MarinersFan
                      Rookie
                      • Mar 2003
                      • 9

                      #25
                      Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

                      I don't know bro...

                      I never steal on the first pitch. I always try to work the count a bit and wait for a pitch that won't be a fastball.

                      I tap triangle to let Ichiro know he's going to steal... then I hit L2 repeatedly, and get the best possible jump I can. Always do a head first slide, but still get thrown out just barely!

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                      • CMH
                        Making you famous
                        • Oct 2002
                        • 26203

                        #26
                        Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

                        I seriously do not see the problem with this. I find it WAY too easy to steal a base with a fast runner. Once he has that foot icon on the side, it's easy pickens...unless i'm not payin attention and get picked off or i accidentally hit the wrong button (not A) and don't slide head first.

                        But I guess its fair b/c I can't seem to hit a homerun if my life depended on it. I don't know what i'm doin wrong...
                        "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                        "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                        • CMH
                          Making you famous
                          • Oct 2002
                          • 26203

                          #27
                          Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

                          I seriously do not see the problem with this. I find it WAY too easy to steal a base with a fast runner. Once he has that foot icon on the side, it's easy pickens...unless i'm not payin attention and get picked off or i accidentally hit the wrong button (not A) and don't slide head first.

                          But I guess its fair b/c I can't seem to hit a homerun if my life depended on it. I don't know what i'm doin wrong...
                          "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                          "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                          • MarinersFan
                            Rookie
                            • Mar 2003
                            • 9

                            #28
                            Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

                            Yeah, homeruns were hard at first but I got them down now... I've hit 22 homeruns in 24 games.

                            If the ball is pitched outside, hit it where it's pitched with the left analog stick, but do it just before the pitch gets there... That's how I do it.

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                            • MarinersFan
                              Rookie
                              • Mar 2003
                              • 9

                              #29
                              Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

                              Yeah, homeruns were hard at first but I got them down now... I've hit 22 homeruns in 24 games.

                              If the ball is pitched outside, hit it where it's pitched with the left analog stick, but do it just before the pitch gets there... That's how I do it.

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                              • gambit816
                                Rookie
                                • Feb 2003
                                • 253

                                #30
                                Re: Any tips for stealing bases?

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                                I immediately start tapping X while pushing up on the analog controller

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                                why are you tapping X?

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                                I start tapping X so that my runner will start his headfirst dive as soon as possible.

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