[md40022]

I will say, what you visibly see isn't always accurate to what is really going on. There have been countless times over the years where I have a man on base, the outfielder will catch a fly ball, and I will then get the baserunning prompt asking if I want to try to advance the runner, "The ball is very deep and so-n-so has an average arm" but the visual of what is actually on the screen is the ball is very shallow. And that is just an example. Other times it will say that the ball is very shallow, yet the outfielder appears to have caught it on the warning track lol.

I know the runner going 1st to 3rd on a base hit is a different scenario, but one thing I have learned is not to trust how shallow or how deep the ball appears to visually be. It's been like that since I've been playing the game many years back. Just kind of learned to live with it. What looks like a shallow single will sometimes clear the bases and knock in 3 runs. The visual doesn't always accurately depict what's going on. My assumption in your case is the "shallow single" that you are seeing is actually deeper than what you're seeing, deep enough that the CPU decides to advance the runner an extra base, and he occassionally gets thrown out.