[kq76]

I did something I've never done before in OOTP, I asked a hitter to pitch. I half-expected OOTP to not let me do it, but it did. It just popped up a message notifying me that I had selected a position player to pitch or something to that effect. That was nice. In case, you know, you made a mistake. But I hadn't. We've been playing so badly lately that no matter what I try, we lose. And that's after starting the season 15-5! On paper we should be right up there contending with the best teams in the league, our mediocre rotation notwithstanding, but lately our previously dominant hitting just can't put runs together and now our bullpen is giving up bunches of runs too.

Anyway, we're down 11-2 in the top of the 6th and I'm just so fed up with our pitching that I say, what the heck, who's our bench player with the best pitching ratings? Well, they all suck, so I choose the guy I think I'll least likely need in case of injury. I warm him up and then in the top of the 7th I bring him in (I thought about bringing him in the middle of an inning, but I thought that'd be unfair to the previous reliever who had men on base). It goes about as well as can be expected: walk, flyout, flyout (oh wow, we might get out of this inning not giving up a run!...), double (run scores, hitter goes to 3rd on stupid throw to home), wild pitch (run scores), solo HR, solo HR. Okay, that's 4 runs. I've had enough so I bring in the reliever I started to warm up at the start of the inning. He finishes the game and we lose 15-4.

I don't think I'll be doing that again any time soon. I suppose it was worth it to see the warning message. I liked seeing that.