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  • bender_over
    Pro
    • Mar 2003
    • 750

    #1

    Striking out the CPU

    I've noticed that a lot of people have been having trouble striking batters out. I also had trouble getting K's; I have about 4 or 5 a game. Two strike counts were common for me but I just couldn't get the last pitch to punch out the batter.

    Then I was playing with the Reds yesterday and I had Ryan Dempster on the hill. I had 7K's through 6 innings using a backdoor slider on about 6 of them.

    First, throw a pitch to a cold zone on the first pitch. Then, If you started them out with a fastball, throw an off-speed pitch (change-up, curveball, etc.) not in the same location. For example, if you threw low and in to a righty on the first pitch, throw high and away on the second. Once you have two strikes, go to the bottom left corner of the zone and pitch a slider. The computer usually watches this pitch go by.

    You must, however, set them up with a pitch on the top right corner of the zone (throwing a ball just outside of this corner will work). This worked throwing either a fastball or a change-up to the top right corner of the zone, and also worked against righties and lefties. It even worked on Jim Edmnods, whose zone is red low and away (where I like to throw the slider). He still watched the pitch go by.

    I only had the chance to play 7 innings using this method, but I plan on testing it out a little more today.
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  • bender_over
    Pro
    • Mar 2003
    • 750

    #2
    Re: Striking out the CPU

    I just played another game using this strategy. This time I was the Astros, and had 15K's in 10 innings. Oswalt had 12 in 9 innings of work, while Wagner got 3 batters looking in the 10th. Only 2 of the K's didn't come with a backdoor slider on the 3rd pitch, but a high fastball out of the zone.

    This pitch didn't work 3 times I tried to use it-once when I tried it low and away to Thome (he promptly hit a double to left-center), and twice in the 9th when I missed the green accuracy zone.

    The following is me describing how the game unfolded for my own amusement. Don't read if you only read this to get pitching tips.

    The game was tied 1-1 in the top of the 9th, when they scored a run because of the two pitches I hung over the plate by missing the accuracy zone. So I went into the bottom of the ninth down 2-1 when Berkman got a quick double. Kent proceeded to knock him in with a double of his own. Hidalgo quickly got out and the computer walked Jeff Blum. Jose Mesa then got my last two batters and it went into extra innings, where Billy Wagner gave up two quick hits and struck out the next three. Nice!

    In the bottom of the 10th I had Jason Lane (who replaced Biggio in the 8th), Julio Lugo, and Jeff Bagwell due up. Lane grounded out and Lugo singled. Bagwell gets a pitch that was hanging in a netral zone, but lined to center. So Berkman steps up with the tieing run on first and two outs. BAM, Berkman went deep on a 2-1 fastball! Man this game kicks ***!
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    • bender_over
      Pro
      • Mar 2003
      • 750

      #3
      Re: Striking out the CPU

      I just played another game using this strategy. This time I was the Astros, and had 15K's in 10 innings. Oswalt had 12 in 9 innings of work, while Wagner got 3 batters looking in the 10th. Only 2 of the K's didn't come with a backdoor slider on the 3rd pitch, but a high fastball out of the zone.

      This pitch didn't work 3 times I tried to use it-once when I tried it low and away to Thome (he promptly hit a double to left-center), and twice in the 9th when I missed the green accuracy zone.

      The following is me describing how the game unfolded for my own amusement. Don't read if you only read this to get pitching tips.

      The game was tied 1-1 in the top of the 9th, when they scored a run because of the two pitches I hung over the plate by missing the accuracy zone. So I went into the bottom of the ninth down 2-1 when Berkman got a quick double. Kent proceeded to knock him in with a double of his own. Hidalgo quickly got out and the computer walked Jeff Blum. Jose Mesa then got my last two batters and it went into extra innings, where Billy Wagner gave up two quick hits and struck out the next three. Nice!

      In the bottom of the 10th I had Jason Lane (who replaced Biggio in the 8th), Julio Lugo, and Jeff Bagwell due up. Lane grounded out and Lugo singled. Bagwell gets a pitch that was hanging in a netral zone, but lined to center. So Berkman steps up with the tieing run on first and two outs. BAM, Berkman went deep on a 2-1 fastball! Man this game kicks ***!
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      • yakimiiis
        Rookie
        • Mar 2003
        • 104

        #4
        Another strikeout method

        I recently developed another strikeout method.

        Not quite sure if this is a good thing or not, but in one day I went from striking 2-3 batters out a game to just striking out SEVENTEEN in a nine-inning contest with Glendon Rusch. Every single strikeout except for two came on three pitches. This is on Pro level, fading cursor, no strike zone.

        You need a pitcher with a decent fastball and curve. But let me point out that Rusch is only that: decent. He's no all-star.

        Basically, my method the entire game was to start out the batter with a low outside pitch. Usually a fastball, but occasionally a cutter or slider. This has to be right on the lower outside corner, and is almost always a taken strike.

        0-1 pitch is a curve ball, usually on the low inside corner. I don't worry so much about exact placement here because the CPU almost always swings and misses on a curve in the green zone. Heck, they miss my mistake curves.

        So now you're 0-2? Toss a fastball 89 MPH or faster (87, 88 MPH sometimes work) up high, right over the middle of the plate. If you use the cursor, put the cursor about one cursor's distance above the top of the strike zone (or the hot/cold zone, since you can't turn that off). This is in definite ball range, but the CPU will chase this 97% of the time. If they take it for a ball, do it again on 1-2. You'll get any stragglers you missed, but, if someone with a great eye is at the plate and takes it again, follow up with another curve ball, this time low (low-inside, low-outside, low-middle, doesn't matter), and you're almost guaranteed another swing-and-miss, since the CPU has just seen two heaters.

        Let me know how you fare.

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        • yakimiiis
          Rookie
          • Mar 2003
          • 104

          #5
          Another strikeout method

          I recently developed another strikeout method.

          Not quite sure if this is a good thing or not, but in one day I went from striking 2-3 batters out a game to just striking out SEVENTEEN in a nine-inning contest with Glendon Rusch. Every single strikeout except for two came on three pitches. This is on Pro level, fading cursor, no strike zone.

          You need a pitcher with a decent fastball and curve. But let me point out that Rusch is only that: decent. He's no all-star.

          Basically, my method the entire game was to start out the batter with a low outside pitch. Usually a fastball, but occasionally a cutter or slider. This has to be right on the lower outside corner, and is almost always a taken strike.

          0-1 pitch is a curve ball, usually on the low inside corner. I don't worry so much about exact placement here because the CPU almost always swings and misses on a curve in the green zone. Heck, they miss my mistake curves.

          So now you're 0-2? Toss a fastball 89 MPH or faster (87, 88 MPH sometimes work) up high, right over the middle of the plate. If you use the cursor, put the cursor about one cursor's distance above the top of the strike zone (or the hot/cold zone, since you can't turn that off). This is in definite ball range, but the CPU will chase this 97% of the time. If they take it for a ball, do it again on 1-2. You'll get any stragglers you missed, but, if someone with a great eye is at the plate and takes it again, follow up with another curve ball, this time low (low-inside, low-outside, low-middle, doesn't matter), and you're almost guaranteed another swing-and-miss, since the CPU has just seen two heaters.

          Let me know how you fare.

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