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@sheyworth_xbl said in Hitting for an Xbox User:

@willgdesigns_xbl said in Hitting for an Xbox User:

Hitting Coach Will here -

1)You need a plan going up to the plate
Saying I'm going to get a good pitch to hit is not enough, its a start for a good mental focus but you still need hitting plans , and you need multiple zones you like to hit in when you get into a 2-0 3-1 count .

2) Lay off the power swing/ button on counts not 2-0 3-1 with hitters less than 75 power
If you are not ahead in runs on the scoreboard or tied ,they have a harder time trying to barrel the ball then power hitters just like in real life , as you score runs and take a lead you can take more risks with them I add 3-5 points to the power rating they have in 1-0 2-1 counts , Example if you are up 3 runs you take a power rating Right hand hitter of 65 that now is 80 , its not really 80 but you are ahead so the at bat is alot more comfortable trying to power swing and fail good instead of you pressing which slows down reaction time (trying to hit a 3-run homerun with nobody on) ,

3) Every at bat you should have a plan zone in the at bat for the counts
0-0 , 0-1, 1-1, 2-0 and 2-1, 2-2 3-1 , simple thing to do is make 9 squares and rotate those squares around a 9 box zone this does 2 things 1 , the pitcher can't go to the same spot every at bat and never knows where your hard contact focus is ,
3-0 Counts Don't Swing until you are comfortable with your zones.

4) Turn off hot zones ,
This will make you hesitant to swing in certain zones if they are blue, the only time you need to really avoid a cold blue zone is 0-0 , 2-0 3-1 when runners are locked into a dp situation , lets say zone 9 (low and way to a right hand hitter is a weakness don't swing in that zone until you have a 2 strike count , for me I will look somewhere else on 2-1 and if the pitcher throws a 2-2 strike in that area my 2-2 approach will be that zone.

5) Nobody on 0-2 and 1-2 swing with contact,
These are high chase counts and non slider strikes unless the bases are loaded and then look at power rating vs contact and swing appropriate to the player strength, as you make contact or foul pitches off you can think about normal swing again

6) Practice Mode B.P before a game to get warmed up the correct way , take 1 round with fastballs in your favorite inside , outside , up and down location , then add a slider , then add a change-up , these are the 3 speeds of baseball to stay balanced on those family pitch types (Example Slider will help you hit a split, slower then 90MPH 2-seams sinkers , Fast breaking curves, this is why Ted Williams , Manny Ramirez hit off the slider on even counts so they could react to all the offspeed and if the pitcher hung the fastball in that location they were looking smoked it , bad focus would be looking 12-6 curve and trying to hit a fastball you will never catch up unless its in the middle of the plate (the place no pitcher want's to live), help with take 1 round with locations and practice laying off the swing button if its not 1 zone away from the zone your current count swing focus is on.

7) Call it out before looking
As you make contact and put the ball in play before looking at the pitch location or swing path, say what pitch you hit before looking, this will help you start to learn the depth and movement of pitches and your timing will start to muslce memory into those timings when you swing.

Back to the hitting plan
And this if you are serious , take 9 of your favorite baseball players or team logos and each at-bat you make an out on , rotate those pictures in 1 of the 9 boxes , lets say your favorite player is Tatis or Trout, Okay so wherever that Tatis or Trout picture lands as you shuffle that's the zone you are going to look in on 0-0 , and then so fourth 0-0 3-1 is what I use for my favorite picture because its what I used to do on my armpad in real life of my team logo in high-school , college ,all the way up to rookie A-BALL & then a final comeback independent league before I got hurt and had to call it quits , but anyway as you get runners on its a good idea to make your favorite team or picture the 1-1 count why?? Because you are going to want to swing so bad with runners on you will alot of times expand your hitting zone (easy double plays etc) if you make it 1-1 it will keep your focus on getting the right pitch to hit that you can handle or continue to battle for count leverage where the pitcher has to come to you. 1-1 , as this is the most common count with runners on in the ball , strike caa and mouse game pitchers use in real life and online that's baseball . Now If you are getting hits work off the same game-plan just work on your second and 3rd favorite zone or anywhere but as soon as you make an out switch the plan and get discipline again. When I say have fun as you get hits lets say you want to swing with power its 1-0 is the center of the zone a picture of a power hitter in baseball then look for the same location you did 0-0 but maybe a little bit more center cut to the middle.

Have fun.

This is excellent advice - and I will add one more thing to it.

Remember, you are playing a human being. Now, obviously at your level this isn't as vital as when you get to the higher levels, but this will help in BR and in Events especially to start. This is a tip for when you master the advice above.

When you take a bad swing

You will still take bad swings. I'm not a top tier player but I'm the level below. I frequently go 9-0, 10-0, 11-0 in BR before getting my first loss.
I finished just about .600 in Win Pct last year in RS with a .282 average.

I still take bad swings. Even the top guys will get fooled and take bad swings.

But most important thing when you take a bad swing: remember it. Remember what they threw and where they threw it.

Here's what I'm getting at. They WILL go back to it. More than once.

I remember one game predominantly - keep in mind I didn't grind, and I didn't play much in 20. I never had the best cards, my PCIs were always smaller than my competition's. My endgame lineup featured several guys with low vision.

I had HELL facing Bauer. The cutter is my personal weakness. On a righty, plop a cutter in the bottom corner and I will roll over to 3rd on it.

It took about 3 starts against Bauer. But I started noticing that before my "bad swing" - he'd attack either middle or middle in with a fastball, because it really hid itself well against the cutter (they looked the same).

After my third bad game against Bauer, and my 3rd or 4th bad swing of the game - I paused and said to myself - it's not a fastball. It's a cutter. Slow down, don't worry about getting beat if it is a fastball, and follow it to the bottom corner. He's gonna keep going back to it because he's ate me up with it thus far.

Sure enough over the next 4 innings I hit 4 of those cutters over the fence the opposite way. Lost 5-4. Looked him up after the game - he was ranked 172nd in the world.

Remember that they know your bad swings, and they're gonna keep trying to tackle your weakness when you've shown them. Adjust to that and make it your strength, and ignore your strength (mine is fastballs inside).

Great points bro , to the original poster have 1 of the team icons for strike 1 that means if that icon comes up in your scheme you put the crosshair on that location and try to learn to hit that pitch with time you will be crushing because muscle memory and your eye focus will have the timing for that spot to swing or lay off.

Hope to see yall on the virtual dimaond soon as I get this Crashing issue with the series X fixed. Great points fellaz

Sinkers that cut in to right handed batters are not what you want to swing at until 2 strikes sinkers flatten out in zone 2 not 1 or 7 , 8 is okay when not in a dp situation early in the count , you want the sinker to be up in zone 2 or 3 - 5mid or zone 6 and 4 is okay as long as it starts middle of the plate and sinks in to the zone but sinkers which start in zone 1 , 4, 7 you are going to have issues as velocity increases above 93mph

zones are this for a right hand batter vs right handed pitcher

1------2-----3
4----- M5---6
7------8-----9

@tvsectog_psn said in Xbox series X crashing:

Check your power settings on your Xbox. Sounds like power management related, possibly. I have noticed that the network connections do appear to have persistence issues and have issues if the Xbox goes to sleep/you stop playing for xyz amount of minutes.

thanks TV , what settings on the power am I focused on once I get home and look? Appreciate the help.

@stormywalker18_xbl said in Xbox series X crashing:

Every time I load the game it allows me to play the game for about 5 minutes, then all of a sudden the game crashes my whole console and restarts it. It is the only game on the console that does this wonder why? Any help?\

In the same situation bro , The regular version runs fine but the Series x next gen between 1-4 innings will just freeze , and as you said after you exit out will cause a reboot. Question for you , where did you get your X-BOX series X I got mine from Bestbuy through the citizen Loan for the system and 2 years of XBOX Ultimate.

@borderwarrior4_xbl said in Still crashing after update maybe its my X-box series x or monitor:

@willgdesigns_xbl said in Still crashing after update maybe its my X-box series x or monitor:

Hey Guys,
Love the game , the new gen extra pop to rendering and graphics is stunning. But I can't play this game version for the X-BOX SERIES X , my game plays for a few innings then just freezes almost like clock work this will cause my X-BOX to then a few minutes later after closing out to restart, no other game does this so I'm confused on what to try next. Anyone else with Series X new gen version had this issue or been able to resolve? I have removed the game re-downloaded no change. I can play the regular version with no issues but would like to eventually play the new gen version. Any help would be appreciated or things to try other than re-download game which I have done 4 times.

Thanks for the help

I play on series x never had a problem with freezing or crashing, I have it on download not disc. Strange.

Thanks for the response I have mine also on digital download , Its weird the regular version plays fine and also the X/S does for 1 to 2 innings but then crashes , can I ask what view you play on pitching and hitting?

Pedro Martinez and Mike Mussina

@aaronjw76_psn said in Hitting for an Xbox User:

Bookmarking for future

glad to help

would be very careful , I'm trying to figure out why my Series X version crashes 2-3 innings into the game , the game will just freeze, which requires to exit out which then will restart the X-BOX no other game is doing this to me so I'm trying to figure out whats happening.

Hey Guys,
Love the game , the new gen extra pop to rendering and graphics is stunning. But I can't play this game version for the X-BOX SERIES X , my game plays for a few innings then just freezes almost like clock work this will cause my X-BOX to then a few minutes later after closing out to restart, no other game does this so I'm confused on what to try next. Anyone else with Series X new gen version had this issue or been able to resolve? I have removed the game re-downloaded no change. I can play the regular version with no issues but would like to eventually play the new gen version. Any help would be appreciated or things to try other than re-download game which I have done 4 times.

Thanks for the help

@go4stros25_psn said in Anyone else struggling on hof diff this year compared to the last few iterations.:

@lazy_toast_psn said in Anyone else struggling on hof diff this year compared to the last few iterations.:

@mrmealticket18_mlbts said in Anyone else struggling on hof diff this year compared to the last few iterations.:

Everyone seems to be using all sinker ball pitchers. The meta kinda sucks. Havent seen a fb thrown in like 7 games

Yup the new Burnes is Kluber from last year. Everyone’s just spamming his sinker high. Annoying af

Im new. Wouldn't a high sinker be a good pitch to hit? What is the benefit of throwing it high?

Depends on the sinker if its a below 93 mph sinker you will most likely be able to time it and get your swing path before it breaks and get a line drive or lift , but a sinker thrown up and in which starts as a strike and cuts in to say a right handed hitter going off the black from strike to ball is a pitchers strength , any sinker in zone 2 is a hitters dream any sinker down and in is a hitters worst nightmare especially if its a velocity hard sinker. Hope that helps

My hitting tips thread I gave another player
https://forums.theshow.com/topic/31255/hitting-for-an-xbox-user/2?_=1620355929149

Might help

They need to do it like real life , you can step out the box for a few seconds take a breath , but once the animation of your guy is in the box the pitcher should be able to throw. Also looking at the pitch sequence should not cause the pitcher not being able to throw. Not all but a ton of players do this so you can't start your wind up and online with some sort of lag already no matter how small if your playing on analog this can throw off your release point timing which causes balls or worse center cut pitches which is what they want. Like I said if they want to make a animation after the pitch of the guy taking a breath while you overlook the sequence for a second fine before stepping back in the box I'm all for that but once in the box I should be able to pitch.

Hitting Coach Will here -

1)You need a plan going up to the plate
Saying I'm going to get a good pitch to hit is not enough, its a start for a good mental focus but you still need hitting plans , and you need multiple zones you like to hit in when you get into a 2-0 3-1 count .

2) Lay off the power swing/ button on counts not 2-0 3-1 with hitters less than 75 power
If you are not ahead in runs on the scoreboard or tied ,they have a harder time trying to barrel the ball then power hitters just like in real life , as you score runs and take a lead you can take more risks with them I add 3-5 points to the power rating they have in 1-0 2-1 counts , Example if you are up 3 runs you take a power rating Right hand hitter of 65 that now is 80 , its not really 80 but you are ahead so the at bat is alot more comfortable trying to power swing and fail good instead of you pressing which slows down reaction time (trying to hit a 3-run homerun with nobody on) ,

3) Every at bat you should have a plan zone in the at bat for the counts
0-0 , 0-1, 1-1, 2-0 and 2-1, 2-2 3-1 , simple thing to do is make 9 squares and rotate those squares around a 9 box zone this does 2 things 1 , the pitcher can't go to the same spot every at bat and never knows where your hard contact focus is ,
3-0 Counts Don't Swing until you are comfortable with your zones.

4) Turn off hot zones ,
This will make you hesitant to swing in certain zones if they are blue, the only time you need to really avoid a cold blue zone is 0-0 , 2-0 3-1 when runners are locked into a dp situation , lets say zone 9 (low and way to a right hand hitter is a weakness don't swing in that zone until you have a 2 strike count , for me I will look somewhere else on 2-1 and if the pitcher throws a 2-2 strike in that area my 2-2 approach will be that zone.

5) Nobody on 0-2 and 1-2 swing with contact,
These are high chase counts and non slider strikes unless the bases are loaded and then look at power rating vs contact and swing appropriate to the player strength, as you make contact or foul pitches off you can think about normal swing again

6) Practice Mode B.P before a game to get warmed up the correct way , take 1 round with fastballs in your favorite inside , outside , up and down location , then add a slider , then add a change-up , these are the 3 speeds of baseball to stay balanced on those family pitch types (Example Slider will help you hit a split, slower then 90MPH 2-seams sinkers , Fast breaking curves, this is why Ted Williams , Manny Ramirez hit off the slider on even counts so they could react to all the offspeed and if the pitcher hung the fastball in that location they were looking smoked it , bad focus would be looking 12-6 curve and trying to hit a fastball you will never catch up unless its in the middle of the plate (the place no pitcher want's to live), help with take 1 round with locations and practice laying off the swing button if its not 1 zone away from the zone your current count swing focus is on.

7) Call it out before looking
As you make contact and put the ball in play before looking at the pitch location or swing path, say what pitch you hit before looking, this will help you start to learn the depth and movement of pitches and your timing will start to muslce memory into those timings when you swing.

Back to the hitting plan
And this if you are serious , take 9 of your favorite baseball players or team logos and each at-bat you make an out on , rotate those pictures in 1 of the 9 boxes , lets say your favorite player is Tatis or Trout, Okay so wherever that Tatis or Trout picture lands as you shuffle that's the zone you are going to look in on 0-0 , and then so fourth 0-0 3-1 is what I use for my favorite picture because its what I used to do on my armpad in real life of my team logo in high-school , college ,all the way up to rookie A-BALL & then a final comeback independent league before I got hurt and had to call it quits , but anyway as you get runners on its a good idea to make your favorite team or picture the 1-1 count why?? Because you are going to want to swing so bad with runners on you will alot of times expand your hitting zone (easy double plays etc) if you make it 1-1 it will keep your focus on getting the right pitch to hit that you can handle or continue to battle for count leverage where the pitcher has to come to you. 1-1 , as this is the most common count with runners on in the ball , strike caa and mouse game pitchers use in real life and online that's baseball . Now If you are getting hits work off the same game-plan just work on your second and 3rd favorite zone or anywhere but as soon as you make an out switch the plan and get discipline again. When I say have fun as you get hits lets say you want to swing with power its 1-0 is the center of the zone a picture of a power hitter in baseball then look for the same location you did 0-0 but maybe a little bit more center cut to the middle.

Have fun.

The only batter who should be taking pitches is the 1st - 1st batter of the game , can take strikes to see how the pitcher likes to throw in certain counts. And the other take is the 9 hitter on 3-1 count if the pitcher is pitching ball strike and he is trying to roll over the lineup everyone else in a baseball lineup should be working the count not automatic takes, You gave a major league pitcher 0-0 takes he will destroy you. If you want to take the 1st pitch with nobody on the first time through the lineup its okay but only recommended if you are swinging at balls on 0-0 counts with non power swings that's a problem in your approach at the plate.

@groux_xbl said in Dev/Bug Team How Do I Sumbit A Game Crashing Bug For XBOX SERIES/X:

https://theshow.sonysandiegostudio.games/hc/en-us/requests/new

Thanks appreciate the help , sent them a video clip of the game crashing every single time.

Dev/Bug team , how do I submit a video to you of my game crashing offline within 1 to 2 innings every single time? , the x-box one version I can play no issues with crashing or freezing but the X-BOX Series X crashes within 1 to 2 innings usually right as the pitcher is about to release the ball from his release point. I can capture the video and show you , just need to know where to send.

Love the game just hopefully I can play for new gen version.

Analog because you can adjust the break and if you accidentally aim in a bad area of the strike zone you can ease of the analog or push right below the line or not , people who never pitched before might not understand that but having that full control i love it and makes it feel most real to life.

Update: Installed the regular version of the game on the X-BOX series x and was able to get through the training (Rays VS Dodgers pre full install , Iwill let you know what happens once the install is final and I go into the full version of the game.

Anyone with a xbox series x and playing the X/S version crashing after a inning or two , usually happens right as the pitcher is about to get to his release point , I'm in batting camera offset zoom also. Happens in the training game, exhibition and Road to the show. I have removed the game reinstalled. Just removed again with another game so I can rule out maybe a bad sector on the hard drive. Just wondering if anyone on X-BOX Series X has had any crash issues. The game looks outstanding just wish I could play more than 1 or 2 innings before it freeze/crashes.

@byaylex_xbl said in Freezing on Xbox One:

@morgon-louhouse_xbl said in Freezing on Xbox One:

Nope, no issues. Playing just fine here on xbox one s

I wonder if it’s just a problem with the original Xbox one.
Nope I have the 1TB Xbox series x - same issue freeze after an inning or two , I'm going to try another ballpark besides camden yards for the orioles see if thats it.