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Originally Posted by The Game
Are you playing one pitch mode? If so switch to full count or whatever its called and steal then and your success rate will go up. I get killed in 1 pitch mode trying to steal, even against guys with a 4 arm ( 1-10 scale) and pitchers with a hold rating on 6 or less.game i just played i was 1 for 4 the 3 players that got picked off all have a 8+ speed while the one player that did steal was a mess up on my part and has a 6 speed/steal.
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THIS.
I play one-pitch mode and select 'steal' (rather than run-and-hit or hit-and-run, mostly), and this just doesn't seem to fly. I know a few of the 1-for-21 victims were nailed when the batter didn't put the ball in play on a hit-and-run, but the above sums up my problem.
I will say this, even when the mode is one-pitch, very often the runner doesn't get a good pitch to run on, and then the situation becomes 'pitch by pitch' as the pitch will be called a ball or strike, and the runner never went anywhere, and I'm back to selecting an option. The opposition doesn't seem to have this problem - they run whenever they want, with no restriction based on count (I have seen no situation where I'm pitching, and the AI runner didn't get a good jump and the situation changes to one-pitch-at-a-time mode).
Anyway, thank you for the suggestions, fellows - I guess I'll have to switch to pitch-by-pitch when I have runners on, which is kind of a bummer to have to remember that, but so be it.