Don't expect new features any time soon

Venditte just broke the game engine! LOL

http://m.athletics.mlb.com/news/article/128749374/ambidextrous-pat-venditte-hurls-two-shutout-frames

Cards and Dice this is an easy one, but we're relying on the Glen Head programming factory for the CDROM and Online game so it may be keeping them busy for a while

LOL you're right considering we haven 't gotten an adjustment for the reverse lineups which seems to be as simple as adding and IF/THEN parameter to the code. I have no idea how HAL will handle this though, maybe it's as simple as applying whatever they use for switch hitters to his card.

The real issue becomes what happens when he faces a switch hitter

Oh noooooo!

Switch hitter facing a switch pitcher, can you say infinite loop ending in a blue screen!

I think SOM and MLB needs a hockey line change rule for this maybe.

He did face a switch hitter last night. They made him designate which hand he was going to throw with, then the hitter went and got the appropriate helmet. There was a lot of confusion on it, and the video is amusing to watch.

He did face a switch hitter last night. They made him designate which hand he was going to throw with, then the hitter went and got the appropriate helmet. There was a lot of confusion on it, and the video is amusing to watch.

That's easy to do in real life, but I don't know how HAL will deal with it.

He did face a switch hitter last night. They made him designate which hand he was going to throw with, then the hitter went and got the appropriate helmet. There was a lot of confusion on it, and the video is amusing to watch.

If after he declared, if the hitting team sent up an opposite handed pinch hitter, can he re-declare based on the pinch hitter?

Is this even in the rule book yet? I was a football official for years, the baseball rule book has to be 10 times thicker

Is this even in the rule book yet? I was a football official for years, the baseball rule book has to be 10 times thicker

Yes, the "Pat Venditte Rule" was passed several years ago by MLB, requiring the switch pitcher to select first.

It would be simple enough for HAL to decide that in a switch pitcher vs. switch hitter situation, the pitcher always selects his best option -- i.e., a 2L would pitch from the R or a 4R would pitch from the L.

And if both batter and pitcher are E? End the game as a rain-out!

I believe this is the official rule.

A pitcher must indicate visually to the umpire-in-chief, the batter and any runners the hand with which he intends to pitch, which may be done by wearing his glove on the other hand while touching the pitcher's plate. The pitcher is not permitted to pitch with the other hand until the batter is retired, the batter becomes a runner, the inning ends, the batter is substituted for by a pinch-hitter or the pitcher incurs an injury. In the event a pitcher switches pitching hands during an at-bat because he has suffered an injury, the pitcher may not, for the remainder of the game, pitch with the hand from which he has switched. The pitcher shall not be given the opportunity to throw any preparatory pitches after switching pitching hands. Any change of pitching hands must be indicated clearly to the umpire-in-chief.

What I expect will happen is he will have checked all switch hitter stats prior to the game and know which side they hit best. So say Caminiti is up and he is a 4L. Venditte probably chooses to throw right handed so Caminiti hits from the left side like he does against all RH pitchers. Next hitter up is Eddie Murray who is a 4R. So Venitte toes it up ready to throw left handed. Murray then prepares to bat right handed like he does against all lefty pitchers.

The logic should not be all that difficult to program.

Thanks for the rule excerpt Valen!

I believe this is the official rule.

A pitcher must indicate visually to the umpire-in-chief, the batter and any runners the hand with which he intends to pitch, which may be done by wearing his glove on the other hand while touching the pitcher's plate. The pitcher is not permitted to pitch with the other hand until the batter is retired, the batter becomes a runner, the inning ends, the batter is substituted for by a pinch-hitter or the pitcher incurs an injury. In the event a pitcher switches pitching hands during an at-bat because he has suffered an injury, the pitcher may not, for the remainder of the game, pitch with the hand from which he has switched. The pitcher shall not be given the opportunity to throw any preparatory pitches after switching pitching hands. Any change of pitching hands must be indicated clearly to the umpire-in-chief.

What I expect will happen is he will have checked all switch hitter stats prior to the game and know which side they hit best. So say Caminiti is up and he is a 4L. Venditte probably chooses to throw right handed so Caminiti hits from the left side like he does against all RH pitchers. Next hitter up is Eddie Murray who is a 4R. So Venitte toes it up ready to throw left handed. Murray then prepares to bat right handed like he does against all lefty pitchers.

The logic should not be all that difficult to program.

Just like the adjustment for reverse lineups shouldn't be that difficult to program:

If SP is 6L or greater use reverse lineup if 5l or lesser use normal.


But it hasn't happened yet.