Those get up and yell moments...

[Greencollarbaseball]

Quote: Originally Posted by HechticSooner

Man at times like this I wish you could turn off the profanity filter.

Not a smart donkey. Is the look. To answer your question.


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[LowerWolf]

Playing the O's last night. Trailing all game. Finally tie it at 5 in the 8th.

Bottom of the 9th, Freeman gets a lead-off double. Moves to third on a fly ball to right. I bring in Pastornicky to pinch run. Diaz, pinch hitting, walks. I decide I'm going to try a suicide squeeze with Bourn at the plate, but on the second pitch. The CPU apparently read my mind, because it pitched out on the first pitch.

So on the second pitch, I drop down the bunt - a tad too hard. The 1B comes up throwing, but Pastornicky slides in under the tag. That's mine.

[h4mbon3s]

down 1 run with runners on 2nd and 3rd, bottom of the 8th with 2 outs. i work a full count, then foul off a few so he's thrown at least 10 pitches. then i take a fastball that is DEFINITELY a ball and the umpire calls it a strike... i ended up losing the game... i punched at least 5 baby giraffes that night.

[Majingir]

This game is getting real annoying. Why can't I ever lose normally!

If I win, it's either a blowout, or a good game. If I lose, it's cause the CPU gets all these cheap moments to win.

3 groundballs that were all balls hit,all directly long the 1B or 3B line for the AI. In another inning, I change my pitcher. And the first 3 pitches my reliever throws...double(scores a run).....double(scores a run).....double(scores a run).

I looked at mine vs AIs hit chart and all my hits are mid-upper part of strike zone. All AIs hits are middle-lower strike zone. All my double plays are mid-low strike zone. So how is it that the AI can get hit after hit after hit after hit in areas that I'd 99% ground into double plays.

And why are so many of my strikes thrown directly down the middle, despite the fact that I aim out of the strike zone, and the analog meter flashes yellow(meaning it was a good-perfect timing on the pitch)

[TheNumber35]

Playing a Spring Game...Astros (me) vs Phillies

So I get a great start from Jordan Lyles, he dominated...going 4 innings of shutout baseball, only giving up 1 hit and striking out 7. Weiland pitches a good 2 innings, Galarraga pitches a perfect 7th, Rodriguez pitches a perfect 8th and in the 8th, Chris Snyder hits a dinger to put us up 1-0. So we hand the ball to Brett Myers. Myers proceeds to walk the bases loaded, get two strikeouts, and give up a walkoff homer to the pitcher. I don't know why the Phils didn't pinch hit for the pitcher, maybe because it's spring?

Either way...I screamed many profanities lol.

[Majingir]

What's with my runnings being so slow? A normal ball hit in the gap in the OF, and by time the CF gets the ball, my guy NOW gets to 1B. So I can't even get a double if that's the case. Yet if the other team does that exact same hit, they get into 2B without even a throw.

On another note...that's now 4 straight games where my teams let up like 4+ runs in the 7th. This game, my fielder had an easy fly ball, but he somehow doesn't know how to put his glove above his head, so it was ground rule double. My next fielder can't field a ground ball properly.....Then my pitcher decides to let up a home run afterwards.

[Redlogic]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

What's with my runnings being so slow? A normal ball hit in the gap in the OF, and by time the CF gets the ball, my guy NOW gets to 1B. So I can't even get a double if that's the case. Yet if the other team does that exact same hit, they get into 2B without even a throw. On another note...that's now 4 straight games where my teams let up like 4+ runs in the 7th. This game, my fielder had an easy fly ball, but he somehow doesn't know how to put his glove above his head, so it was ground rule double. My next fielder can't field a ground ball properly.....Then my pitcher decides to let up a home run afterwards.

You should turn the Fielder Run Speed slider down at least 2 notches. You won't hit many doubles leaving that on the default setting.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redlogic

You should turn the Fielder Run Speed slider down at least 2 notches. You won't hit many doubles leaving that on the default setting.

But my fielders can barely run to the ball as it is. I'm giving standup doubles to average speed guys.


One reason why I really hope in MLB13, they have separate sliders for the AI and User on ALL categories.

[HechticSooner]

So it looks like the thread that has went from talking about the hills and valleys of baseball moments to another of those welcomed "comeback code" threads...such a damned shame.

[derelictojama]

Quote: Originally Posted by HechticSooner

So it looks like the thread that has went from talking about the hills and valleys of baseball moments to another of those welcomed "comeback code" threads...such a damned shame.

Well, I sure hope not, I have enjoyed reading some of the posts. There are enough of both kinds of get up and yell moments--yell in celebration, yell in frustration--and for a while, that's what we were getting, and some of it was darn funny. So, in an effort to get this going back a positive direction, here is a little, personal get up and yell moment, and not even a game winner:

late-ish in a game, let's say 7th inning, Toronto at Angels (me), I've got a good lead, 6-2 or so, but they get a rally going, and there are runners on 1st and 3rd w one out. Starter is tiring, but I've got guys in the bullpen, ready to go, starter CJ Wilson gets one more batter, and then I take him out if he gives up a hit or run, so he doesn't take the loss and I can kill the rally. So, runner on 3rd is one of the Jays young catchers (Arencibia?), and the batter is... want to say Lawrie, anyway, RH, some power. Wanting the dp, I go low, low, low, but he works the count, and man, I can't walk Lawrie, I think Joey Bats was on deck... so its 3-2, I have to throw a fastball, but I manage to throw one to the high outside corner.... Lawrie hits it well, but it's slicing... oh no, I think, Vladdy's in right, he's a hundred years old, oh no, please go foul... ball slices foul, but... Vlad, apparently forgetting it's not 2002, perfectly surrounds the ball (I use auto field, but I throw, with no meter), charges, is in perfect position, throws a one-hop seed to David Ross, who tags Arencibia out a good five feet up the line from home, and I am up out of my chair, chest bumping with vladdy, telling him I knew the old guy had at least one good cannon shot in him... really, other than a few homers, I'm only carrying the guy because he was on the roster when I picked the Angels up; I won't have him on the 2014 Angels. But there it was, one perfect, Vlad moment, you could almost see his little ai brain WANTING that play to happen, catcher on 3rd, come on, let me show off this arm one more time....

So there you go, a good, positive, get up and yell moment. Feel-good story, Vladdy makes one more great, highlight reel throw, and reminds us, for a moment, what greatness looks like.