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Silfir · 03-31-2018, 01:50 PM

You know, this is a really interesting topic. As a complete baseball foreigner (my background is in German-made soccer management games like Anstoss) I never questioned that the hitter would always just take the pitch when I wanted a base stolen. I always assumed that there was a reason they had to.

My best guess is that if your hitter is asked to "swing away", i.e. swing at good pitches and stay off the bad ones and just in general take the at bat in whatever way he deems ideal, it's not safe for the baserunner to try to run for the next base, because he does not know what his batter is going to do at any given moment. "Steal Base", "Hit&Run" and "Run&Hit" all have that one thing in common: The runner knows what the batter is going to do, or try to do at any rate.

I'd be very grateful indeed for anyone with baseball knowledge to shed light on the issue for me.

03-31-2018, 01:50 PM	#2
Silfir Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 137	You know, this is a really interesting topic. As a complete baseball foreigner (my background is in German-made soccer management games like Anstoss) I never questioned that the hitter would always just take the pitch when I wanted a base stolen. I always assumed that there was a reason they had to. My best guess is that if your hitter is asked to "swing away", i.e. swing at good pitches and stay off the bad ones and just in general take the at bat in whatever way he deems ideal, it's not safe for the baserunner to try to run for the next base, because he does not know what his batter is going to do at any given moment. "Steal Base", "Hit&Run" and "Run&Hit" all have that one thing in common: The runner knows what the batter is going to do, or try to do at any rate. I'd be very grateful indeed for anyone with baseball knowledge to shed light on the issue for me.