How to get more strikeouts? (2024)

Seancefc

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Join Date: May 2014

Location: Liverpool, England

Pitching on legend with CPU contact and timing ramped up to 7. Bad pitches are being punished- correctly so. And I’m walking more batters as I have to be a lot more careful.

My only issue with the above is I’m struggling to get strikeouts. My previous game I managed to increase the amount to a reasonable level by delaying my pitch more often…but I’m not sure if that’s a co-incidence or a valid tactic?

I try to be as strategic as possible with my sequence, e.g if my put away pitch is a slider to a RHB, I’ll usually pound them inside until I get to 2 strikes before going to the low and away slider.

Any advice would be appreciated.

baseballguy99

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Join Date: Mar 2019

Location: Scranton

Quote: Originally Posted by Seancefc

Pitching on legend with CPU contact and timing ramped up to 7. Bad pitches are being punished- correctly so. And I’m walking more batters as I have to be a lot more careful. My only issue with the above is I’m struggling to get strikeouts. My previous game I managed to increase the amount to a reasonable level by delaying my pitch more often but I’m not sure if that’s a co-incidence or a valid tactic? I try to be as strategic as possible with my sequence, e.g if my put away pitch is a slider to a RHB, I’ll usually pound them inside until I get to 2 strikes before going to the low and away slider. Any advice would be appreciated.

What pitching interface and difficulty are you using?

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Ghost Of The Year

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Join Date: Mar 2014

Location: Exile On Main

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Quote: Originally Posted by Seancefc

Pitching on legend with CPU contact and timing ramped up to 7. Bad pitches are being punished- correctly so. And I’m walking more batters as I have to be a lot more careful. My only issue with the above is I’m struggling to get strikeouts. My previous game I managed to increase the amount to a reasonable level by delaying my pitch more often but I’m not sure if that’s a co-incidence or a valid tactic? I try to be as strategic as possible with my sequence, e.g if my put away pitch is a slider to a RHB, I’ll usually pound them inside until I get to 2 strikes before going to the low and away slider. Any advice would be appreciated.

Don't forget to be completely unpredictable. Even if it means occasionally starting a batter off with a low and away slider and trying to put him away after two strikes with a totally different pitch and/or location. Hitting is timing and pitching is upending that timing. In The Show just as IRL.

Seancefc

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Join Date: May 2014

Location: Liverpool, England

Quote: Originally Posted by baseballguy99

What pitching interface and difficulty are you using? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Legend difficulty and classic interface. Was analogue for years but it was too easy to hit my spot every time even with control and consistency set to 0.

Detroit Tigers

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Join Date: Mar 2018

bronxbombers21325

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Join Date: Mar 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by Detroit Tigers

I’d suggest having contact & timing both on 7 is overkill. Leave contact at 7 but put timing to 6 or even 5 to solve this issue.

I have both at 6 and get a good amount of Ks. I would agree 7 for both would be overkill.

Detroit Tigers

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Join Date: Mar 2018

Strategically, I lowkey love going against my instincts. Try it for a few innings.

Like if your immediate instinct is to go away, try going inside instead (or at least consider it).

Do that for a while and suddenly your approach on the mound can completely change, and consequently you’ll start seeing things you never see, and doing things you normally never would.

End result of playing like this for a while is falling in love with this game all over again.