Question for the developers
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I’ve always wondered why the first baseman doesn’t cover first on hard hit balls to right field. It’s fairly common in baseball that if a ball is hit hard enough to right field that the runner could be thrown out at first. I’ve had this situation happen so many times in this gsme and the first baseman just stands there. Then you throw it to him and he finally runs over after the runner is safe. I don’t get it.
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It's an extremely rare play and only happens in actual baseball when you have your right fielder play so shallow that any hard hit ball to right will sail over his head to the wall and result in a guaranteed double or even triple. It was really only done when pitchers hit who had absolutely zero power at the plate. As it is, within the video game it was a play that happened too regularly when what you propose was actually the situation.
So, I think perhaps you do get it. No matter how much code is placed in the game to try to replicate every physical nuance of the game, some things just cannot be fully and accurately replicated.
So, the code was changed several years ago to ensure this rare play cannot be turned into something that happens often.
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Common as rarer than perfect games and triple plays?
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It's called professional courtesy,hitting is so hard that the players won't take a hit away from the other player, when the shift was in play it happened but when there was no shift,they wouldn't do it.
The ones that did(Puig ,others too )quietly disappeared from major league rosters.
Same thing happens on fly outs, they give the runner to get back, only if the runner makes a mistake - goes too far or is slow to start going back will they try to double him up.
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@PAinPA_PSN Never heard of that unwritten rule … They would still do it, but balls are hit much harder these days, therefore the outfielders play back way more … which reduces the opportunities for those kind of plays.
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It can be done, at least pulled it off a few times last year against Rockies when grinding. Believe it was their slowest player maybe 1B. Hit to my RF and my first baseman stayed to cover. And do remember throwing same guy out two or three times. Think it has something to do with hitter speed and how quickly get to the hit and your 1B will cover.
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If they covered the bag, we’d be getting the forum covered complaints about some glitch that there runner was thrown out a first on what would be single.
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@PAinPA_PSN said in Question for the developers:
It's called professional courtesy,hitting is so hard that the players won't take a hit away from the other player, when the shift was in play it happened but when there was no shift,they wouldn't do it.
The ones that did(Puig ,others too )quietly disappeared from major league rosters.
Same thing happens on fly outs, they give the runner to get back, only if the runner makes a mistake - goes too far or is slow to start going back will they try to double him up.
It's one of the unwritten rules of the game.I'm really not buying that point of view, sorry. My read of baseball is that the positioning of your right fielder is designed to maximize the odds of recording an out. But, it also gets nuanced by the game situation. If you are up by several runs late, then you play out outfield in the "no doubles" deployment. But, if the tying or winning run for the opponent is in scoring position, then you move your outfield in because a hit to the wall wins the game (or ties it) anyway.
If the hitter trips running to first, and the right fielder sees the play, he'll make the throw and the first baseman should be paying attention also and running to cover the bag should the play option materialize. It's just that rarely can it materialize, and if it does, then normally it's because you pulled your right fielder in short and are willing to pay the price for a hard hit to end up as a double or triple vice your outfielder flagging it down for an out or at least keeping it as a single.
