rangerssharks414
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Without knowing where you’re struggling, the 2 best tips I can give are wait for more pitches to come when batting, and use analog pitching
Thanks. I'm so impatient when I bat. I've always used the meter pitching, so maybe I'll give the analog pitching a shot, although I usually don't have any issues with pitching. My pitching is usually really really good. I don't know what happened that game.
Use guess pitch(it might be turned off in your settings by default, turn that on. ) I think quadrant is the easiest to use. If you guess the pitch and location correctly the quadrant will light up, your controller will vibrate, and you’ll get a ratings boost for that pitch. Not only that, but you’ll know what pitch is coming so timing it will be easier. I always start by guessing high fastball and I take pitches until I have two strikes or I get a high fastball in my zone. This leads to some walks too which are pretty tough to draw in this game, especially on lower difficulty when pitchers throw more strikes. You’ll get the hang of it soon enough. If you really want to make it easy on yourself, turn off the plate coverage indicator. Then all you need to do is time the pitch correctly to hit it hard.
For pitching use real baseball tactics. High fastball followed by low change up works wonders. High and inside fastball works well as a strikeout pitch against the computer. If they hit it they’ll break their bat or hit a weak fly ball. A cutter running in on a batter works well too, though I don’t have as much success with it running away from a hitter.
Thanks for suggesting guess pitch. Yeah, it has to be off by default since I don't think I ever used it in last year's game or this year's (I believe in an older game that it was on by default). I usually don't throw high fastballs out of the zone. I get a lot of my strikeouts on low and away changeups and fastballs up and in.