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Originally Posted by Eckstein 4 Prez
Here's an in-game bug I've noticed for years; I'd somehow thought this one had been fixed a couple versions ago but I just saw it in a game.
This bug can only be seen in the bottom of the ninth (or tenth, eleventh, etc.) with multiple runners on the bases. In my case, it was bases loaded, one out in the 11th. The batter came up and hit a ball into the gap for the walk-off win. No problem there - it's how the game scored it that causes the bug.
The game gave the batter a double, and the home team a 1-0 win - i.e., only one of the three runners on base scored, which is an impossible situation.
I think I know how this bug came to be. In earlier versions of OOTP, batters would routinely hit walk-off doubles and triples, scoring two or three runs. That's not how it happens in real life, where everyone on base just advances as far as they need to on an obvious walk-off hit.
Someone must have pointed that out to the powers that be, so we no longer have "extra" runs scoring on walk-off hits. The problem is that the in-game engine hasn't been adjusted to give the batter credit for a single only in situations such as those that just occurred in my game. So we have a situation where there were three men on base, the batter hits a double, and one run scored. Evidently the extra runner got swallowed up by the earth or something.
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Just saw a variant of this bug, though a less severe one. Bottom of the 13th inning, first and third, no one out. Batter hits a ball in the gap to end the game. In reality, this would be scored as a single, as the batter would stop and first and the trailing runner at third. OOTP correctly had the trailing runner stop at third, but gave the batter credit for a double.
A good rule of thumb is that the batter is never going to travel more bases than the lead runner on a walk-off hit unless the batter hits a home run. It is possible to have walk-off doubles, but they occur when there is a runner on first or something like that. In such a case, the batter will take the extra base because he wants to be in position to score in case the runner gets thrown out at home. However, obvious game-ending hits (e.g., when the runner is on third) will always be singles unless they are home runs.