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Willets Point Jul 23 2007 06:23 PM

Test your own batting skills by playing Pinch Hitter 2.

Batty31 Jul 23 2007 09:14 PM

I couldn't even hit a HR in the sandlot level!!

Nymr83 Jul 23 2007 11:18 PM

me neither.

Gwreck Jul 23 2007 11:45 PM

Damn you Willets! I'm up to level 8 but can't beat it. Levels 2 and 7 were the hardest so far.

Edgy DC Jul 24 2007 06:17 AM

Two is torture.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 24 2007 07:15 AM

Humiliated me for a good 10 minutes before I saw you could adjust the bat angle. Level 2 is hard.

Edgy DC Jul 24 2007 07:27 AM

There are no popups, I notice. My strategy on the put-all-pitches-in-play level has evolved into the Paul Lo Duca approach of "crowd the plate and pound junk the other way toward the 3-4 hole. I try to do a little Wee Willie Keeler --- note where the fielders are and hit 'em where they ain't --- but that usually just distracts me from the task at hand, and, while I'm noting them, the pitch comes, I get an itchy finger, and swing early.

Willets Point Jul 24 2007 07:31 AM

Gwreck wrote: Damn you Willets! I'm up to level 8 but can't beat it. Levels 2 and 7 were the hardest so far. I never got past level 2 myself.

Mr. Zero Jul 24 2007 08:29 AM

Level 2 is incredibly frustrating. What are those munchkins saying when they swing and miss? sounds like "godammmit".

OlerudOwned Jul 24 2007 10:16 AM

Edgy DC wrote: There are no popups, I notice. My strategy on the put-all-pitches-in-play level has evolved into the Paul Lo Duca approach of "crowd the plate and pound junk the other way toward the 3-4 hole. I try to do a little Wee Willie Keeler --- note where the fielders are and hit 'em where they ain't --- but that usually just distracts me from the task at hand, and, while I'm noting them, the pitch comes, I get an itchy finger, and swing early. I've gone more toward the Juan Pierre route myself. Trying to get on top of everything, because a ground ball to a fielder doesn't count as an out.

Gwreck Jul 24 2007 10:56 AM

Did manage to complete the thing last night. I found that while I was able to pull the ball at will in the sandlot and little league levels, once I got to the Major League level, I was a complete Julio Franco, with basically nothing going to left field.

Centerfield Jul 24 2007 12:10 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Humiliated me for a good 10 minutes before I saw you could adjust the bat angle. Level 2 is hard. How do you adjust the bat level?

Johnny Dickshot Jul 24 2007 12:24 PM

There's like a little white shadow the bat casts. Using the mouse (the wheel maybe?) I was able to move that shadow up or down so as not to swing over (or under) the ball. Once I mastered that it was like steroids -- all my shots were off the wall or over it.

Willets Point Jul 24 2007 12:42 PM

10,000 points in 10 balls? My ass! The best I can do is half that.

Centerfield Jul 24 2007 01:44 PM

I have yet to pull a ball.

Edgy DC Jul 24 2007 02:08 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jul 24 2007 02:19 PM

I've got round two licked. It's a combination of Pierre and Lo Duca. Crowd the plate as much as possible and hold the bat high and chop down. Your feeble grounders will get some comically low scoeres, but it's not a scoring round. In order to get through round three, you need at least two homers, preferably in the first five balls. The best success (not enough) I have in getting those two homers is standing off the plate, in order to get full extension, occasionall diving in, and holding the bathead low in order to get loft. Take note that the armless pitcher will try and repeat loaction and speeds that work. Once you get near or beyond the 10,000, you have to realize that one out could kill you, and you have to start looking to hit grounders again.

Gwreck Jul 24 2007 02:16 PM

Only way to get the 10,000 points is to hit some HRs. I could move the bat level simply by moving the mouse up and down. Moving L/R moved the player in the box.

Nymr83 Jul 24 2007 02:20 PM

well i'm on level 4 now, but have lost my HR-swing again.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 24 2007 02:21 PM

I've been trying Level 3 for a while now. I have my best HR luck pulling the inside pitch, and swinging late on high pitches outside. But you really have to be a guess hitter.

OlerudOwned Jul 24 2007 02:41 PM

After becoming an all-slap hitter to get through level 6, I've come to realize that now it's all I can do. I don't think I could get the 15000 needed for level 7 if they added my score from 3 tries together.

Willets Point Jul 24 2007 02:52 PM

I got over 10,000 on level 3 with two balls left and then got a whiff and a fly out on the last two balls to bring my score way down under 10,000 again. I hate this frickin' game and now I know why it's called Mousebreakers.

Willets Point Jul 24 2007 03:41 PM

OMFG, I just got 9995. I'm going to rip my hair out.

DocTee Jul 24 2007 04:16 PM

diabolical.

Willets Point Jul 24 2007 04:25 PM

I finally cleared level 3 and very quickly moved up to level 7 where my warning track power is now keeping me from 15000 points.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 24 2007 09:55 PM

I made it to the Majors but am also announcing my retirement.

Nymr83 Jul 24 2007 09:56 PM

stuck on L7.

Batty31 Jul 25 2007 12:36 PM

I'm stuck in level 3 hell. Dickshot's tip on the bat position enabled me to get out of level 1 after finally hitting a couple of HR's. Edgy's advice helped me get out of level 2...I crowded the plate and kept my bat straight and hit some ridiculously weak grounders...but it did the job. Now how do you master level 3??? My luck is like Willets!

Nymr83 Jul 25 2007 12:38 PM

Level Nine. i hate this game.

Batty31 Jul 25 2007 12:45 PM

Nymr83 wrote: Level Nine. i hate this game. Damn....you must have edited this post, since you were on level 8 about 5 minutes ago.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 25 2007 12:49 PM

Wow, I'm reading a lot of frustration and aggravation in this thread. I'm glad I never got around to giving it a try!

metsguyinmichigan Jul 25 2007 12:52 PM

Level one reminds me of when I used to work in Shelton, Conn. down the block from the Wiffle Ball factory. We played across the street in a driveway during lunch. Naturally, it got out of hand when we started taking lunch at 11 and playing until 2, with other reporters sticking their head out the door and yelling "DAVE! YOU HAVE A PHONE CALL!" Then we started challenging the Stratford Bureau to games. In the winter we kept the games inside. A poster advertising a high school production of Romeo and Juliet was suspiciously low. Like at strike zone level...

Centerfield Jul 25 2007 12:56 PM

No really. How do you hit a home run at the Little League level?

Rockin' Doc Jul 25 2007 04:08 PM

I'm with Yancey. I decided to steer clear of the entire game in order to save myself the frustration.

Willets Point Jul 25 2007 04:49 PM

In the majors, if you kind of squint at the fence, it looks like Ira's favorite insult is written there -- mouth breather.