@lucas8181_psn said in concentrating in hitting sinkers and cutters in this game is exhausting:

@sheyworth_xbl said in concentrating in hitting sinkers and cutters in this game is exhausting:

@lucas8181_psn said in concentrating in hitting sinkers and cutters in this game is exhausting:

I don't personally think any pitch is unusable. Some here have said curves and 2 seamers are useless.

Two seamers are designed to be used on same handed hitters, in on the hands. It starts away and moves towards the hand that threw it (right HP, the pitch moves right). They are incredibly useful for jamming guys up, but you have to know how to use them.

Curve balls are fantastic, but you need to dot them at the bottom of the zone....after guys chase them out of the zone. They sit there all proud of themselves for not swinging, then...dot, strike three.

Pitching is a chess match. Be smarter than your opponent and all pitches are great.

But also to your note, the introduction of pinpoint allows these pitches to be used much more like they should be used in real life. So maybe it's more fine to bring back flatter sinkers and less slow cutters

I've never stood in a batters box and faced a 96 MPH sinker high in the zone, so I can't say what that's like. But a sinker is a type of 2 seam fastball, and both feature a huge amount of spin. Lower arm slot creates more spin from your index/middle finger, and this spin creates the movement.

The altitude of the ball being thrown does not change the spin or trajectory of the pitch thrown. A 7 foot guy and a 5 foot guy can get the same spin and movement on a pitch, thus the location does not change the movement.

That's physics my dude.

Yeah I'm well aware of how physics works, thanks. Go check my other posts before assuming I'm a moron. I'm not discussing the science, nor is the others who are complaining. We're describing the visual of the optics.

In game, in order for a sinker to "sink" the way they have it programmed, it first "lifts" a little first and then dips. That lift, is not how a ball comes into the plate IRL.

I have received sinkers as a catcher and have also thrown them as a pitcher. Yeah, I don't have the dip nor the spin rate major leaguers have, but I can tell you that "spin" you're talking about doesn't involve the ball going up first before coming down. Therefore, the visual of it should be flatter.

Best of luck being condescending somewhere else.

Community Forum

sheyworth_XBL