Scoring offensively

[Guest]

Hey guys.. I'm having trouble hitting the ball for power ... I have a hard time being patient at the plate especially against the slower pitchers who might go off-speed with a 90+ fastball then 80 change up. Help. Thx.

[Jeeper]

I love the title. Good thing you clarified about which kinda scoring, because otherwise I may have thought you were talking about defensive scoring. LOL.

Just giving you a hard time.

[Guest]

I can keep hitting singles.. but not HR .. sumtimes doubles but rare.

[Expos4Ever]

Patience man, Patience. And if you want power, use the Bosox and don't use the A's :lol:

[RonBurgundy]

Ha, for me, HRs are the ONLY way I score. Because the CPU always catches ANY and ALL line-drives I hit. I hate it when I pound a line-drive with a left hander and a 1B joggs under it and catches it.

[Guest]

I tried using The Astros but I still can't hit for much power. I can double here and there but HR are impossible.. I either pop it up, ground out or shallow fly... how do you hit HR's Donut? any specifics.. like sliders.. datafiles.?

[RonBurgundy]

  Guest said:

I tried using The Astros but I still can't hit for much power. I can double here and there but HR are impossible.. I either pop it up, ground out or shallow fly... how do you hit HR's Donut? any specifics.. like sliders.. datafiles.?

XBOX version, so no mods.

But look, I got A-Rod, Jeter, Sheff, Matsui, Williams, Posada, and Giambi in my line-up. Anything in the zone is going places. But I mostly hit sliders and fastballs for homers. Curveballs, knucklecurves, and screwballs are pulled singles or other line-drives. Splitters are opposite field hits. I can't even make contact on Knuckleballs.

[Guest]

Do you take pitches often?

[RonBurgundy]

  Guest said:

Do you take pitches often?

I'm Jeckyl and Hyde. Sometimes I'm Barry Bonds, sometimes I'm Alfonso Soriano.

[Guest]

Does X-box have like push ^ button like the one similar to the keyboard? If yes do you use it?

[RonBurgundy]

  Guest said:

Does X-box have like push ^ button like the one similar to the keyboard? If yes do you use it?

Anything up and in I swing for the fences, push the trigger left-up(for righties). Up and away, I just push the trigger away and up.

[Guest]

Ya but for Keyboard its kinda hard to react that fast.

[Expos4Ever]

  Guest said:

Ya but for Keyboard its kinda hard to react that fast.

Have your keyboard at up and left or up and right and wait...

[Guest]

What would happen if you just press up?

[twinkies]

hold the up and i normally use the left arrow for righties and right arrow for lefties. Lots of HR but no other hits for the most part.

Righties--- 4 and 8

Lefties --- 6 and 8

This works best w/ fastballs inside.

[RonBurgundy]

  Guest said:

What would happen if you just press up?

Probably a fly-ball. Unless the pitch is in the middle of the plate, at which point if you have a power slugger, it can go a looong way.

[Guest]

Thanks Guys. So you would be hitting the HR to your side of the stadium right? Like if your a righty you go to right field? Just checking. Thx.

[RonBurgundy]

  Guest said:

Thanks Guys. So you would be hitting the HR to your side of the stadium right? Like if your a righty you go to right field? Just checking. Thx.

I go with the pitch, if it's in the zone, but looks outside, I go the other way. If it's inside, I just swing for the fences. Remember DON'T try to pull outside pitches, if you have a good power-hitter and swing on an outside pitch to go the other way for a homer, sometimes it will end up a pulled homer because you might swing early. I've done this a couple times with Matsui and Giambi.

[sowapowa]

I think you want to hold up + a direction because you dont want a fly ball to center. Centerfield is really deep. You might see more doubles just pushing up, but i'm pretty sure you'll see more homeruns if you direct your hit.

[Guest]

Do you guys always hold up and direction with your power hitters? or like when you are winning and just try to swing for more runs?

[sowapowa]

...

[sowapowa]

...

[sowapowa]

I take lots of pitches with my leadoff guys or fast players. I will take until I see a strike and I will continue to take until the pitch count is even.

With mediocre guys, I take pitches early on because the pitcher has full strength but late in the game I will swing away because he wont have mustard on his pitches.

With the power guys, I will always look to hit the ball hard. I think that's what they are paid to do. My approach is to look inside while holding up and in. I will take any pitch that is not inside. When there are two strikes, I start to look toward hitting a single. When there are two outs with a runner in scoring position, I will look to hit a single.

[sowapowa]

haha - sorry about all the repeat posts. I guess i pushed the submit button too many times.

[Expos4Ever]

  Guest said:

Do you guys always hold up and direction with your power hitters? or like when you are winning and just try to swing for more runs?

for me who use keyboard, I only swing for the fence when the base is empty with my good hitters.

I always look for HR balls before getting 2 strikes and when you get the 2S, just try to make contact.

Curveball is the easiest to hit for HR.