Simulated 2020 Baseball Season (JackNicholson1974)

[JackNicholson1974]

You guys had better luck in your MLB the Show debuts.

 

Brewers lost 7-2 in my opener.

 

We actually let it play in full broadcast mode and watched game unfold. 45 minutes of fun with my 9 year old.

[JackNicholson1974]

You guys had better luck in your MLB the Show debuts.

 

Brewers lost 7-2 in my opener.

 

We actually let it play in full broadcast mode and watched game unfold. 45 minutes of fun with my 9 year old.

[JackNicholson1974]

Currently watching game 2. Brewers up 2-1 in the 4th but have already grounded into 4 double plays, two with the bases loaded and no out. Frustrating.

[young guns]

Currently watching game 2. Brewers up 2-1 in the 4th but have already grounded into 4 double plays, two with the bases loaded and no out. Frustrating.

Wow these simulations are surprisingly accurate lol.

[JackNicholson1974]

Currently watching game 2. Brewers up 2-1 in the 4th but have already grounded into 4 double plays, two with the bases loaded and no out. Frustrating.

Wow these simulations are surprisingly accurate lol.

 

Hader just gave up a 2 run HR with two out in the 9th to Javy Baez. 3-3 now.

[JackNicholson1974]

Sogard leads off 9th with single. Tyrone Taylor in to PR. Pina pinch hits for Hader, sac bunt. Taylor to second. Brock Holt, who is leading off and playing SS flys out to RF. Cain, batting second hit a slow roller to 3b and Bryant boots. Runners on corners for Yelich. First pitch a long foul ball that would have won it. Crowd really wanted it. Strikes out. Extra innings.

[JackNicholson1974]

Counsell falling asleep in the dugout. Knebel just pitched two innings, the 10th and 11th. Threw 48 pitches. Gave up a run. 4-3 headed to bottom of 11th.

[JackNicholson1974]

Game 3 starting now. Lauer vs Lester. Need a win here

 

Edit - Javy Baez leads off with HR.

 

Edit 2 - Huira 2 run blast in bottom of 9th to tie it 3-3

[JackNicholson1974]

Lorenzo Cain walks it off in the bottom of the 10th. Brewers 1-2 now.

[JackNicholson1974]

I play GM in nine and set the lineups, rotation, etc.

[JackNicholson1974]

I am surprised how lowly rated Keston Huira is in these games, as a hitter. In MLB the show is rating is very low. He has been a black hole in my simulations. Strikeouts and weak grounders to SS consistently killing rallies with double plays.

[JackNicholson1974]

I will update some numbers tomorrow, on the off day, but the Brewers went 2-1 vs. Stl and they beat Philly today, 8-1. Brewers are 4-3 now. Huira has had two good games in a row.

[JackNicholson1974]

Brewers 5-4 headed in to today’s game. Smoak getting his first start of the season. Huira had a great series vs. Philly.

 

Lorenzo Cain’s first HR of the year in the third makes it 1-0. Yelich follows with a hard hit single to RF, steals 2nd and third and Avasail Garcia’s groudout scores him. 2-0 headed to bottom of the third.

 

Now Nick Castellanos hits a 2 out HR. 2-1 Brewers after 3.

 

Brett Anderson hits a 2 out double down the left field line. Justin Smoak scores from 2nd. Sogard thrown out at the plate trying to score from first. 3-1 headed to bottom for 4th.

 

Bottom of the 4th is a disaster. Anderson gives up two hits and two loud, loud outs that results in a sac fly. Then a single and the easiest E6 ever load bases. They PH for the pitcher Lucas Sims with Nick Senzel and the first pitch hits him. Castellanos hits a grounder up the middle for 2RBI and it’s now 5-3 Reds.

 

Lorenzo Cain stays hot and leads off the 5th with his second HR of the game, off of reliever Robert Stephenson. Yelich follows with a double to LF corner. Now Avasail hits a bomb out to left and it’s 6-5 Brewers. Stephenson gets the hook after just three batters and on comes Michael Lorenzen.

 

Ray Black on to start the 6th. Not off to a good start. Runners on corners two out now, back to top of the order, Castellanos, who is 2-2

With 3RBI so far. Walks him. Phillip Ervin up now with bases loaded. Starts him 0-2 and he’s worked it full...STRIKES HIM OUT. And Black gets out the jam. 29 Pitch inning.

 

Bottom of 7th. Claudio gives up 2R HR to Moose and it’s 7-6 now. On comes Knebel.

 

It will be Braun, Cain and Yelich vs. Rasiel Iglesias in the 9th. Braun leads off with a single to RF. Cain sacrifices him to 2b and the Brewers are playing small ball to tie the game. Perhaps that backfired though as , predictably Yelich is walked. Garcia Ks on a 3-2 pitch. Down to Huira...and he goes 6-3 and game over.

[JosephC]

 

Perhaps that backfired though as , predictably Yelich is walked.

 

Yelich has 5 walks in the last 4 games in the OOTP sim. When sitting there watching the games play out, it sure seems the engine is going to pitch around him in critical situations. Smoak is generally the guy hitting behind him, and he's up to a pretty respectable .250/.364/.464/.828 slash line, so at least there isn't a black hole batting behind Yelich.