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The CPU really does seem to actively undermine your attempts at winning in an underhanded way. I was playing a game and had a man on third and first, hit a fly ball that I was waiting to be caught so that my guy could tag up and both base runners just immediately take off so that i have to try to send them back to the bag so that they could take up and of course this leads to both of them getting picked off for an inning ending double play. Then in the same game I substituted a speedy pinch runner to first and the following batter hit a ball to the outfield that I was pretty sure would be caught so I proceeded to send my runner back to the bag so that he could tag up to take second, but incredibly the outfielder let the ball drop in front of him so that he could just pick off my guy at second for a force out. It was ludicrous and would never happen in a real game. Furthermore, no matter how I smash line drives, I can never seem to hit more than a single, and then if I get consecutive hits it's just station to station advancement of my runners on base, with no chance of the runner taking an extra base and advancing to third. Then what happens in nearly every inning of every game, the next batter will smash hit into a double play right at the fielder so that I'm left with a runner on third and two outs. This happens repeatedly. Also, no one seems able to bunt. If I get a runner on and seek to advance him, the next batter will almost certainly bunt a pop up, sometimes to a middle infielder, and then I have one out with a runner on first, and in games that the CPU doesn't want you to win the next batter will almost certainly hit into a double play. I average about 5 or 6 DP's a game.