A new glitch

[Gantry]

Alan Sternberg emailed me the following glitch:

I'm playing as the Cardinals and lead 8-1 against my friend.  Ozzie Smith is on third and Tommy Herr is the batter with an 0-0 count.  Herr lays down a bunt, as Herr sucks and my friend is incapable of fielding bunts, so any bunt that stays fair is basically guaranteed to be a hit.  The ball heads down the first base line, and Ozzie heads home.  He scores and Herr makes it to first, giving me the run, and making the score 9-1.  However, the ball rolls foul after Ozzie scored and Herr reached first.  So Ozzie goes back to third and Herr goes back to bat with the count now 0-1.  The thing is that the computer let me keep the run, and the score remained 9-1.  Herr then proceeded to single into right field and Ozzie Smith scored for the second time in one at bat, making it 10-1.  

Anyone else see this one?

[GDavis]

I haven't seen that glitch myself, but I believe it.  A master bunter might be able to rack up 50 runs in one at bat.

[B]

a brilliant play to say the least...we almost had one close to that when i tried a suicide...and t fucked up fielding it...so my runner was home, but hten it went foul just before my runner got to first...i wonder if it would have counted had he made it there...and i would have scored had t been able to field.....

[Gwynn3k]

that is similar to another baseball glitch that the rbi programmers developed...  if you notice, when there is two outs and a runner on third, if he gets to the plate, he waits there until the batter makes it to first safely...  obviously because if the third out is a force out, the timing play is not in effect...  where the programmers goofed is that when a force out is made at another base, i.e. second or third after the batter reaches first, they let the runner score.  they should make the runner wait till there are no more opportunities for force outs rather than just at first base... sorry if this confuses anyone but the die hard rbi'ers understand where i am coming from.

[ultimate7]

bumpst

[Clambutt]

« Last Edit: 12/31/69, 07:00:00 PM 

[Shooty]

Its like the 60's ended the day that post was edited.

[Big Hath]

apparantly the edit was also done by robot# 1029042000

[Shooty]

One of my least favourite robots.

[JoeDirt]

I mean really, who can't field a bunt?

[TβG]

i just saw a watchgame glitch where there was a runner on first and a slicing roller went foul off the first base side.  the batter was called out even though he was nowhere close to being tagged and the first baseman wasn't close to the base. (nor did he touch first because after the "out" was called, the first baseman threw to second base instead of thowing to the previous base, which the computer typically does). so it wasn't a low linedrive that i missed either.

[BeefMaster]

I was going to suggest that maybe the game counted it as a 2-strike bunt (perhaps a check swing), but I don't think the computer ever does check swings or swinging bunts, so that's probably not likely either.

[bigbrothermuscle]

Man that's a cruel glitch for the losing player. Haven't seen it yet though.

[ultimate7]

bump

[nomaaa]

tbg, do you just watch rbi games for fun?

[ultimate7]

I do, though not so much anymore.  But if the kids start playing RBI and leave it on and I'm still doing stuff with them in the basement I will switch to a watch game to see what happens

[TβG]

i will occasionally.  mostly the the fantasy games, but i'll let the attract screen go every once in awhile and play itself.  ...or do a watchgame.