Personal records/oddities while playing RBI

[BDawk]

I also once hit an inside-the-park dinger with Tony Armas while I was getting a handjob from your sister.

How did this comment sneak by without a pow? 

[fightonusc]

I also once hit an inside-the-park dinger with Tony Armas while I was getting a handjob from your sister.

How did this comment sneak by without a pow? 

We were all too busy getting handjobs from your mom in her Jaguar to notice. You think I got kicked out of school because of teh aquarium?

[BDawk]

Thank you for that

[nomaaa]

just wow, tbg.

i think the "too bad hotshot" was the cherry on top.

[Metal King]

I hit 2 homers in a game today with Larry Herndon, I think that's a personal record of mine.

I also got 3 hits in a game by Fernando Valenzuela...but I kept letting the computer score to eliminate the 10-run rule.  But it's still 3 hits nonetheless, and by a pitcher.

I also won a game today 4-3, I was San Francisco vs. the Nationals, all of the 7 runs were from homeruns, 5 of them were solo (I had 4 solo hr for SF), and the Nat's hit a 2-run and a solo homer.  Nothing really spectacular.

[Metal King]

I've also hit a few homeruns into any of the ZERO's on the scoreboard, it's kind of a dubious oddity I guess....

[TβG]

i just scored 15 runs in the first inning against the computer for a mercy win.

all 15 runs were scored before 1 out was recorded.  there were no errors and only one fielder's choice.  hitting is contagious.

[Metal King]

A few days ago I started playing this again.  I have a couple new personal records, one is of a dubious honor.

I was 5-5 in a game with Gary Carter (again I let the computer score to keep it under 10 runs), the first four hits were homeruns, and I got a single for the last at bat.

The other one......I was Boston against California,  I gave up 4 straight home runs to them, using Roger Clemens:

(Pettis, DeCinces, Joyner, Jackson).

And that's it for now.

[Briznock]

once stole home with Vince Coleman against computer in late innings

Sounds like pure fictional sketch to me. We need to see it to believe it.


Anyways, I won 5/7 prestigious tournaments in high school. NA and AM were and still are the only two teams that could compete with my Giants.... yesterday and today.

If you steal home and right as the pitch gets there you go back turn back and run towards thrid (if you are far enough down the line) the catcher will take off after you, once he does, head back home, the angle of the catcher running from home to third give you enough to squeek by.  Im not sure if this is actually possible, but I have had a human opponent run right by vince before.

[TβG]

i would think that the computer would cover home plate first, not just chase right away, a human opponent would differ, by running straight at the base stealer right away, or at least have that option.

[Briznock]

I will have to test this... i think if you are already heading back to thrid when the screen switches, the computer would (or should) have no programmed reason to step on home first, and would either throw or run to third, and I know they run at you if you are close enough... 

[ultimate7]

The CPU always protects the advancing base first.  I'm fairly sure that it will always run to home first in this situation, but a test is a good idea.

[Metal King]

I don't believe it's possible to steal home successfully in RBI.  Maybe there's a way, I dunno.  The catcher always covers home plate when you try and steal home.  Maybe if you can take off just before the ball hits the catcher's mitt you could do it, and the catcher wouldn't cover, but I doubt it.

Has anyone here ever thrown to a base for an out, but quickly threw the ball to another base, and the out is never recorded?  You have to be fast and have good timing to do that, it's happened to me a few times, it's kinda funny too.  There should be a glossary term for it if not already.

[fknmclane]

Has anyone here ever thrown to a base for an out, but quickly threw the ball to another base, and the out is never recorded?  You have to be fast and have good timing to do that, it's happened to me a few times, it's kinda funny too.  There should be a glossary term for it if not already.

All the time.  It's important to recognize however that sometimes this "error" occurs because the guy covering the base may not be there just yet.

[Briznock]

I don't believe it's possible to steal home successfully in RBI.  Maybe there's a way, I dunno.  The catcher always covers home plate when you try and steal home.  Maybe if you can take off just before the ball hits the catcher's mitt you could do it, and the catcher wouldn't cover, but I doubt it.

Has anyone here ever thrown to a base for an out, but quickly threw the ball to another base, and the out is never recorded?  You have to be fast and have good timing to do that, it's happened to me a few times, it's kinda funny too.  There should be a glossary term for it if not already.

I do this shit all the time...

And on the stealing home thing... If you get your guy headed back to third as the screen changes, there shouldn't be an "advancing base" to the CPU.  I could very well be wrong but it seems like I remember the CPU just darting to third.  Im sure I will forget this tonight so someone else try it.

[Reds]

tested, he covers the plate.  If runner is still running, he gives chase, but he covers the plate before giving chase. 

(tested using the Fantasy RBI IV rom with Vince Coleman)

[Briznock]

tested, he covers the plate.  If runner is still running, he gives chase, but he covers the plate before giving chase. 

(tested using the Fantasy RBI IV rom with Vince Coleman)

I didn't even think about not being able to run back to third until AFTER the screen switches....

My bad.

[BeefMaster]

Has anyone here ever thrown to a base for an out, but quickly threw the ball to another base, and the out is never recorded?  You have to be fast and have good timing to do that, it's happened to me a few times, it's kinda funny too.  There should be a glossary term for it if not already.

All the time.  It's important to recognize however that sometimes this "error" occurs because the guy covering the base may not be there just yet.

I do the same thing.  It's especially embarrassing when it's not on a double play - I always throw the ball around the horn after a bases-empty out, and I've had instances where my first baseman threw to second too quickly and the batter reached.

[ultimate7]

If you have the 1B throw to first , sometimes he'll throw it into RF and the out is not recorded so the batter advances all the way to 3rd.

[fknmclane]

If you have the 1B throw to first , sometimes he'll throw it into RF and the out is not recorded so the batter advances all the way to 3rd.

Ah yes, where it seems like he just catches the ball and then for no reason throws the ball over his shoulder to the outfield like its a hot potato.