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Originally Posted by ChuckB
Yes, I do (though not often do I read the results and see "So-and-so singled in his first at-bat against Joe Unknown, his second at-bat against Joe Unknown...etc").
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I think the pitcher's name is reported only when the batter hits a home run, so you wouldn't notice ghost pitchers very often.
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Originally Posted by ChuckB
I do find it interesting, however, that the 'History' only shows 6+ hit games as 'Accomplishments', which leads me to believe that 5 hit games weren't believed to be rare enough as to deserve inclusion. That alone might indicate that it's a code flaw, or a logic one.
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I think that's the point; 5-hit games aren't that rare. Ty Cobb did it 14 times, Roberto Clemente did it two days in a row, Dave Winfield had three 5-hit games in one month, even Simon Pond has done it 5 times in his minor league career. I wasn't able to find league-wide numbers in a quick web search, but I did find that 10 Marlins have had 5-hit games in franchise history, for one every 1.4 seasons. If that's a representative modern day pace, then in a universe with complete minors (roughly 210 teams, 60 of which play half-seasons) you'd expect it to happen about 130 times in a year. I'm sure that number is off (I'm using the Marlins as a baseline after all), but it's not a rare event.
My main issue with 5-hit games in OOTP is all the news reports; I'd like to be able to turn them off, and only get a message when there's been something truly rare, like a 6-hit game. I'd find this level of customisation very useful.