Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

[1andonly]

I want to know if you guys think this is a cheesy way to score runs. So recently I just figured out with a decent fast player on 2B with less than 2 outs I can score him every single time.

All I gotta do is lead off twice, steal, have the batter bunt the ball, and then just round 3B with my runner and score.

The by the time the CPU is throwing the ball to 1B my runner has just rounded 3B and they can't get the ball to home fast enough to get me.

What do you guys think of this? It feels kinda cheesy

[Yeats]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

You post an obvious programming cheat/glitch for all to see and read? Yes, it's completely okay to score runs that way if you're 9 years old and hate losing.

[pistolpete]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

You post an obvious programming cheat/glitch for all to see and read? Yes, it's completely okay to score runs that way if you're 9 years old and hate losing.

I'm the Padres, I hate losing. I'll do it.

Thanks for the glitch.

[Yankees101]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

You post an obvious programming cheat/glitch for all to see and read? Yes, it's completely okay to score runs that way if you're 9 years old and hate losing.

How is that a programming cheat/glitch? It sounds like something that could happen.

If you have say, Brett Gardner on 2nd, nobody out, and you bunt while he's running, with his speed he'd be at third around the time the ball hits the bat, then you send him and it's almost like a safety squeeze.

If you're doing it all the time, yeah it's kind of boring and "cheesy." But hey if it's the 8th inning of a tie ball game, do what you gotta do to get that run in.

[ManiacMatt1782]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

The firstbaseman has a delay and can't get the ball home fast enough. Not because the player doesn't recognize, but because the animation does a hiccup, and can't get the ballhome fast enough.

[Yeats]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

How is that a programming cheat/glitch? It sounds like something that could happen.

"I just figured out with a decent fast player on 2B with less than 2 outs I can score him every single time."

You're really going to try to argue and justify this? Really?

[pitchleague]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

huh, why not? It worked in "Major League" with Willie Mays Hayes on 2nd base. Jake Taylor executed a perfect bunt and Hayes beat the throw back to the plate.

Sure, that was a movie, but it COULD happen.

[Yeats]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

huh, why not? Sure, that was a movie, but it COULD happen.

"...every single time."

[shane79013]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

well i am pretty sure Willie Hayes scores from 2nd on the bunt every time I watch the movie so "...every single time."

[daflyboys]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

Ahh, the classic suicide squeeze from 2nd base! Sounds realistic to me!

[Yeats]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

Ahh, the classic suicide squeeze from 2nd base! Sounds realistic to me!

Heh, exactly. I think Johnny Damon did something similar in the '09 WS, but that was probably about the last time it happened. So yeah, I guess it's not cheating provided you use it to score a run every three seasons or so.

[aykyle]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

It isn't a glitch to the point everyone thinks it is. The animation part where the 1B catches it and walks off the bag part isn't really a glitch. Just a programming error. But this happens in real life as well. Maybe not with the bunting part. But people in the MLB do hit'n'runs to score a man from second to home. The other team will give up a run to get an out. It is common.

Not a cheesy way. Not exploiting. Just playing the game.

And he isn't saying he is using it every time a man is on 2nd. He is saying it works every time he decides to use it. Yeats, I don't understand how you go from saying this is a glitch to saying it is okay every 3 seasons. Way to stick to your guns!

[Yeats]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

Yeats, I don't understand how you go from saying this is a glitch to saying it is okay every 3 seasons.

It's called "sarcasm."

[Yeats]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

It is common.

Not a cheesy way. Not exploiting. Just playing the game.

So what you're saying here is it's perfectly fine that you're guaranteed a run every single time you get a fast runner to second base. Interesting perspective. But definitely not my idea of fair play, or of a properly programmed baseball game for that matter.

[aykyle]

Re: Is this a cheesy way to score runs?

Lol? No. What I am saying that if you have the fast guy at 2nd steal 3rd and the batter bunt the ball. And the guy that is stealing is already at 3rd when the batter makes contact, I am saying that they will trade an out for a run 99% of the time. And this isn't a guarantee that he will score. The cpu might decide not to throw to first and get the guy at home.

Stop acting like he is doing this to win a million dollars. He isn't. Let him play the game the way he wants to and don't judge him. Its a video game. He asked if it were a cheesy way. Some said yes and some said no. He didn't ask to be criticized. No game is going to be 100% perfect. Clearly you don't understand that. Get. Over. It.

To the OP, just play the game the way you want to play.