.....vs. a human? :o
A couple years ago, my brother threw 8 2/3 innings of no-hit baseball (he gave up a couple walks).
He was Detroit and I was California. He used a committee to do it, and I believe it was Guillermo on the mound throwing gas when Gary Pettis stepped to the plate with two outs in the ninth. All was silent in the room, and of course none of us had mentioned that he was throwing a no-hitter. I could have mentioned it to jinx him, but that would have been unprofessional. Pettis cranked a 2-1 pitch to deep right, where Pat Sheridan went back to the warning track. The damn ball bounced an inch above Sheridan's glove, hitting the wall. Pettis wound up at 2nd for a stand-up double. DeCinces was then retired to complete the epic one-hitter. Have any of you done a no-no or perfect game vs. a human outside of slaughter rule games?
Pettis, of all people ;D
The best i have ever done in a full nine inning contest was a 1 hitter as well...ive done a 7 inning no hitter against the computer with houston, but ive never done a full game no no with anyone....hats off to your brother, quite a performance....
I had 1 hitter the other night against this guy I was playing, he always plays me tough, had a no hitter until 9th when pettis hit a ball that bopped off my shortstop, they called it a hit. Bullshit!
yah... i am not so sure that the official scorekeeper knows what he is doing... they are always taking hits away when outfielders bop even though it would have been a single anyway... he must not be watching the game.
as for me...i went to the 8 with a no no against my brother, then he got lucky with mike schmidt and blooped one over my third baseman's head... that was his only hit...
Joe either you played great against the na-stars, or your brother is pretty shitty, sure you weren't playing misha?
andrew is like a conjo... he swings at everything and has just recently started being selective. while my feat was impressive, i have to give his aggressiveness some of the credit... and no, misha has no interest in rbi... she values her rest too much.
My friend Stuart was playing another friend of mine, and took a perfect game to 8 2/3. I have heard the story before, but I don't remember who got the hit, or even the teams.
I almost had a perfect game with Nolan against the Mets. Should have been a perfect game but Jose Cruz broke back when he should have moved in on the ball and Hojo got a cheap single. This friend of mine and Dill's, named Tyler, has had some tough times against us. The kid's not a bad player, but when it rains it pours for that guy. Over a 7 game stretch against me, he had 24 hits. After that series of games he went off to Kentucky and has rarely been seen or heard from again.
easy guys, you may have ruined him for life and he might have some vendetta against rbi players. he could be up in the hills right now planning his "return" to arkansas.
I don't think the kid could make it back to Arkansas. The idiot doesn't know how to use cruise control! And he is an officer in the Army! Maybe that explains it. He swings at everything, and he can't pitch the ball over the plate. He is one of those guys that come out gunning and his pitchers last aboot an inning and two thirds before they start throwing meat. Stu, is he in KY?
So from what I see, nobody has thrown the no-no? That's rather surprising...
Obviously this has never been done in our straight pitch games... We haven't even gotten a shutout, worst I can remember was Lips throwing down a pathetic 3 runs in last year's championships. With Cali no less...
a no- no in straight pitch would have to be the equivilant of a shutout... for you straight pitchers.
i am going to go for a nono against my little brother after dinner... i feel one coming on.
I don't think the no-no has an equivilant in straight pitch. If you throw a no-no in curve RBI, your pitching is the reason it happened. The exact opposite is true in straight pitch - if you throw a shutdown it is completely the fault of your opponent. And they would have to be mighty terrible...
I think defense has a lot to do with throwing a near no-hitter also. We all take defense for granted because, with practice, you can get above average defensively. But have you played a novice lately? And watch them totally miss routine fly balls? It is at that point that you see how much defense matters.
Defense is definitely key, it can still make or break a game between veterans. Some still-common mistakes are the quick throw that results in the BOP or initially moving your fielder the wrong way, thus giving up a close single...
defense is huge... the key to cutting off balls in the gaps, using the right guy to go after a tweener and of course, the quick throw on balls in the hole to get the guy by a step.
as for tonight, jimmy key went 6 1/3 innings of no hit ball, striking out 12. unfortunately, brian downing slapped a grounder through 5.5 hole as the shortstop went to cover third... only in rbi.
You were actually playing with an All Star team? We never play with those guys. No fair. Plus it is no fun because the games become high scoring softball games. NL baseball is the way to go.
We hardly ever play with the All-Star teams either, though we love the softball games. Not really sure why, probably because both players have to be All-Stars for the game to be official...
i rolled the die twice and gave my brother the option... he wanted the angels over the al stars... his choice and his loss... we give the die the authority to determine who plays and when... like gantry aluded to, "variety is the spice of life". as for dill, i agree and love the n.l. style of baseball.
The roll system is a very solid way to keep the games fresh and exciting. I would like to use that system on occasion, but I don't think it would fly with the dee-nee crew in multiplayer situations (aka lose and give up your game). I would have to pry Detroit from their cold, dead hands...
while it might be difficult to get the crew to alter their ways, once they agree you all will see that the die is the means to reaching the pinnacle of fairness... yes you might have to use a team you despise or get the raw end of the deal; in the end, it all evens out.
I agree completely, but we really hate sitting out games and it would be doubly worse if you had to sit because you rolled Houston. I think once we give curves a try, the die will become a good option. In straight pitch, there too much of a disparity between the tier1 and tier3 teams. Without the option of pitching a great game, picking up wins with the Houstons of the world is next to impossible....
for straight pitch, maybe you should get an 8 sided die and keep houston and st louis off. or a six sider and take the allstars off as well... then you would have ca, bo, dt, mn, ny, sf. and let the die decide between those teams so nobody gets stuck with houston.
in curve style, houston regulary keeps the games close with their pitching.
Six-sided die might work, but I think learning curves and going 10 would probably be best. We're too set in our ways in straight-pitch to change now. Instead, we'll just have our endlesss Det vs Bos/Ca games...
stubborn bastards... keep going on your merry way...
as long as it is exciting, just keep going the way you are.
At least we're going to give curves a shot. For us, that' s a very big step. Of course it won't replace the straight-pitch, but it's an impetus for change.....
another way that me and t do sometimes is the random picking where you just keep hitting over on the controller without looking at the screen and stop randomly on the team...and that is who you are stuck with....but usually we leave it up to a feeling...and the spirit of competiton wins us over
We also do the "randomly move right" technique for picking a team. The die would throw a little more excitement, but either one would work....
the random works unless the person is counting as they move to the right. since you guys dont like using allstars, what happens if the team chosen at random is one of the allstar teams... i suggest the die for spicing up the competition... using 6 for straight(-sl, -ho, -al, -nl) and an 8 sider for curve style (-nl, -al).
however, as you have seen, getting an allstar team does not guarantee a win...
Hi, everyone.
Been a long-time reader of the board and never really had much to contribute, but I decided I would finally take the necessary two seconds and register a name for the board.
But I can honestly say that I have thrown a 9-inning no-hitter against a human. And to top it off, it was against the National League!
A little background -- I'm a 22-year-old college student and have been playing R.B.I. since I was around ten. My roomates and I have a wars at the game whenever we drink, which pretty much means it's every day.
But we actually sat down to play the game a few months ago WITHOUT alcohol and my I made it my goal to no-hit my roomate who -- admittedly -- sucks. He can usually get a couple hits, but he always swings at pitches just outside the strike zone and he's a sucker if you bust him in with two strikes after getting him down with balls on the outside of the plate.
But anyway, he was National League and had it not been for me getting behind 3-1 to Mike Schmidt and walking him on a 3-2 count, I could have had the perfect game.
But the team I was using?
The Mets.
Ojeda threw four, Gooden threw four, and then one each from Orosco and McDowell.
We made what we call the "R.B.I. Logbook" and whenever we play the game, we record who did what, who hit home runs and of course we have a "quotes" section for great quotes that came out during the game.
But I just looked it up and yes, a no-hitter and the Mets won 9-0. Two homeruns apiece for Carter and HoJo. I'm pretty sure I bunted every time up once I got nine runs so I would have the chance at the no-no.
June 26, 2003 -- "FUCKING HISTORIC," the logbook reads.
Nonetheless, at Rafael Santana level, I remain. ;)
Duane
* Still in need of the arcade, though.
Last night, against another seasoned RBI vet, I threw the first perfect game that any of us had ever seen!
NY 6, HOU 0. 27 AB, 0 H, 0 BB, 6 SO. Simply incredible. Ojeda threw five, and Gooden pitched four. The last batter gave me a scare with a hard liner to third, but Knight snagged it and history was made!
This must be a really old thread as we've gone through this once since I've been on here. I came one batter away from throwing a perfect game with one pitcher against a human opponent. My buddy was the Astros and I was Doc. He pinch hit Davy Lopes for the ninth spot and hit a hard liner through short and third. I of course got the next guy out and he of course unpuckered his ass. He was so nervous. If I had done it I would have told him about it until the day he died.
I'm sorry to say that I have been the victim of a perfect game. It was about 3 years ago and was between my roommate and I. The time was probably 3 am or so and I was blitzed. I don't think one pitch crossed the plate. He kept throwing curves and breaks and I kept swinging. He had only drank a couple so he did have a huge advantage, but still....to this day I hear it from him but I always deny that it happened.
Glassjoe,
I would actually be very interesting in purchasing an R.B.I. cabinet. I currently live in Pullman, Washington, which is in the bottom right-hand corner of the state.
However, my hometown is Atlanta, where my family continues to live.
Any chance you live close to either one? :D
Duane
* Holding out hope.
Wow it seems like there is a disproportionate number of no-hitters thrown by the Mets. I have thrown one no-no in my life, vs. my equally skilled roommate. I was the Mets, he was the Astros. I used all four pitchers and had a perfect game until one out in the ninth when Orosco hit Garner with an 0-2 drop pitch. Got the next two guys out to complete the embarassment. The only way he could one-up me now is to hit a pitcher HR.