Infield pop ups on low pitches?
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The game's pop up physics are broken for low pitches. I have a challenge for the developers. Go to some place where you can take some swings at pitches thrown overhand and make sure the pitches all come through the zone below the knees. You probably won't hit one low pitch straight up in the air. If you do make contact under the ball, what's far more likely to happen is a foul tip that goes straight back with no air under it.
I understand that in video game logic, it makes perfect sense that pressing the swing button with the PCI under a low pitch at the right spot results in an infield pop up. However, that's really hard to do with a real life swing because you would have to actually be on your knees at the point of contact with the ball. I don't see how you could be on your knees and still make hard enough contact under the ball to generate the spin and velocity required to pop the ball straight up in the air. There may be some rare IRL infield pop ups on 12:00 to 6:00 curve balls on uppercut swings from contact made below the knees, but there are way too many infield pop ups in this game on pitches below the knees with little or no downward break.
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Uppercut swings is the reason, they get incredible launch angle and height in golf and that ball is on the ground.
The mlb record for a homer is 10 and a fraction inches of the ground(bottom of the shin) and the game I saw it in had a list and there were 8 players under 18 inches(which is below the calf) -
Pop up's absolutely can an do happen on low pitches. It's all about the placement of the bat on the ball. You swing sufficiently below the center of the ball and the ball pops up over the infield.
