Post subject: Baseball Time Attack Challenge
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Joined: 3/13/2004
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Location: Kansai, JAPAN
While watching the playoffs, I thought of a fun idea for a baseball time attack. The way I figure it, any baseball game will do, as they are all essentially played the same way. That's why I didn't post this in any particular system forum. Here's the proposal: Pitch a perfect game, win 1-0 on a home run in the bottom of the ninth. Any two teams would do, but I think the funniest combination would be the Cubs beating the Red Sox. Control both pitcher and batter. Each batter should only require one pitch, as striking out each batter would take too long. Every batter should get out (preferably by grounding out, but pop-outs are OK too) except the last one, who hits a home run to end the game. Depending on the game, you could probably stop recording the second you hit the home run. Since baseball has no clock, this should be the fastest way to "win" a game. Any takers? Which baseball game would be fun for this? The only baseball game I ever played was Tommy Lasorda Baseball for the Genesis, but that was before the days of licensing so all the teams and players were make believe.
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Joined: 6/27/2004
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Location: New York
Interesting idea, though I think it might get repetitive unless you really pull off some fancy moves with slides and jumps in the outfield. Bases Loaded is probably the real classic of baseball games. But my favorite was always the comical Bad News Baseball.
Joined: 4/4/2004
Posts: 66
Some games have a "slaughter rule" that would make it possible to finish the game even faster. In those games, if one team is ahead or will be ahead by 10 or more runs at the end of any inning, the game ends immediately. There are probably a lot of entertaining ways to score 10 runs, but I suspect the fastest in most games would be 9 beanballs followed by a grand slam that just barely clears the wall and is just barely fair. Also, I think either a quick line drive back to the pitcher or a low popup to the catcher would probably be the fastest ways to make an out in most games. Perhaps in some games it would be fast to bean a couple of batters and then go for a triple play. It'd be entertaining even if it wasn't fastest, though :)