I mean... I've been playing this game since the very first one...
Hell, I've been great at this game. I have to play on the most difficult of levels for this game to be a challenge. I have to have the strike zone off, and the hot and cold zones off, cursor off... So I'm very much into the challenges of this game.
So... If you say that this game isn't somehow scripted, or they do put things is this game to get you to lose... You definitely haven't played this game enough.
I got years of video from each game of these sceneries play out, and they are very obvious.
The main one I'm always concerned about is when they are ready to try to create a slump, you can get struck out even if you make a perfectly timed swing right on the heart of the bat... Because the ball goes right through the bat. Sometimes the bat would move underneath the ball, and even back in the older games, the ball would sometimes do like a Darkseid omega beam type move away from the bat, into the glove... I kid you not.
But most times, it's games when you will constantly get fly balls right to the same outfielder, good swings become early, then become choppers right to the SS...