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I am struggling with stealing a base during the Granderson "Celebrated ASG" moment. I have failed every time and it is usually not even close. Before the steal, I give him an R1 (one click) lead and try to get moving with the pitch, but he seems so sluggish to respond. I am not use to the first person control and having to use analog to get him to run.

I've tried to change the base running options (While in the Moment) but it doesn't have an option to change how the baserunner is controlled.

Any suggestions or tips on how to steal a base in this moment?

Thanks!

@STLMattinals_ said in Help with Granderson Moment - Stealing Base:

@chuckstix_mcroy said in Help with Granderson Moment - Stealing Base:

Thanks! I'll try those suggestions.

Well? Did it work?

I won't know until after the kid goes to bed tonight!

I suspect it will take me time to get the rhythm down, but at least I know how others have gotten it done, so I'll be less discouraged to keep trying.

I'll report back.

@STLMattinals_ said in Help with Granderson Moment - Stealing Base:

@chuckstix_mcroy said in Help with Granderson Moment - Stealing Base:

Thanks! I'll try those suggestions.

Well? Did it work?

Yes! It totally worked first time I tried the above advice. I went with watching the catcher instead of the pitcher, but I suspect both techniques work equally well. As soon as the catcher moves into position, start the run. It's clear that before this advice I was starting my run way too late.

I only tried it once. It may not work every time, but that's the ticket.

Thanks all for the great advice!

The CPU is not "lasting". If you can get the SP to pitch at least 10 pitches an inning he is very tired by the 3rd inning. It's a little gift to you that the CPU doesn't do what any sane opponent would do and pull that tired guy.

And how funny. That is EXACTLY what my wife wants for Mother's Day. Me grinding out even more MLB the Show.

@pbake12 said in All-star vs CPU win not counting for Hernandez program - Can I verify the difficulty?:

@chuckstix_mcroy said in All-star vs CPU win not counting for Hernandez program - Can I verify the difficulty?:

@pbake12 said in All-star vs CPU win not counting for Hernandez program - Can I verify the difficulty?:

You have no game against the Cardinals in the last week in your game history... It has to be in Play vs CPU mode, not in "extra innings" or elsewhere. If you picked the correct mode it would show up in your history.

I do have the game and it was a play vs CPU. I just went and double checked and it's there from May 9.

But I do see what may be the problem. It correctly shows the 7-1 win but if you open up the box score it isn't showing the runs in the individual innings that they were scored in. How bizarre.

5/9/2020 6:04PM PDT

W: Roy Oswalt (1-0, 1.50), L: Miles Mikolas (0-1, 6.35)

CPU	CPU	L	1	5	0
DC Nutz	chuckstix_mcroy	W	7	13

I see it now, not sure what is going on man. I see you lost (quit) the first try, maybe that has something to do with it, or it was accidentally on Veteran.

Yeah, I quit the first one and got the badger of shame. But there are no rules against quitting vs CPU. It shouldn't mean I can no longer complete that mission. The flakey box score for the win makes me wonder if there was some glitch as opposed to what does seem more likely, I was on veteran.

@markdavo4 said in All Star RS:

I still can't score runs. Have played about 5 games post update (AS level in RS so I assume that uses AS difficulty?). I think I've only scored 4 or 5 runs so roughly a run per game at best. Why am I so terrible? Is there any hope for improvement?

I am in the same boat. I'm getting crushed at the plate. Too late on fastballs and too early on breaking balls. It's embarrassing. I played a game last night where I had something like 8 of the first 10 batters strike out.

It is frustrating, but at least I don't blame the game. Clearly, plenty of my opponents can hit well. I will keep practicing.

I'm hovering around 400 and wish my rating would drop so I can at least face more opponents that also struggle with pitching!

I just started using it last night. I'm an awful batter in RS and have been trying different things just to make contact. It's that bad. Switching to actually using the contact hitting button has helped. I even hit a HR with Eddie Mathews using it.

@markdavo4 said in All Star RS:

@chuckstix_mcroy said in All Star RS:

@markdavo4 said in All Star RS:

I still can't score runs. Have played about 5 games post update (AS level in RS so I assume that uses AS difficulty?). I think I've only scored 4 or 5 runs so roughly a run per game at best. Why am I so terrible? Is there any hope for improvement?

I am in the same boat. I'm getting crushed at the plate. Too late on fastballs and too early on breaking balls. It's embarrassing. I played a game last night where I had something like 8 of the first 10 batters strike out.

It is frustrating, but at least I don't blame the game. Clearly, plenty of my opponents can hit well. I will keep practicing.

I'm hovering around 400 and wish my rating would drop so I can at least face more opponents that also struggle with pitching!

well said mate.....and yea, I can certainly identify with all you said. Constantly hovering back and forth either side of 400. Can't hit a fastball to save my life.....really want to get better but feel frustrated and hopeless when I finish a game with only a couple of hits. I'm intrigued to see whether I can get better with a monitor but not sure if I can commit to that.....but as you say, I accept that I need to improve and don't want to blame the game as the guys I play against seem to be able to hit. I'm just not sure how they do it....I genuinely can't fathom how some of these pitches are hittable.

The monitor may help, but I'm not sure. I'm using a 2 ms monitor, for what that's worth.

Good luck!