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Originally Posted by Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
There's always a lot of special moments in OOTP that just make you love it,.
I lost game 7 in the world series, having been up 3-1 in the series, of my historical-ish universe as the Yankees, in year 1964. I lose Willie May's first pitch of the World Series hit- for a broken wrist! out 5-6 weeks!!
This is off the back of my reigning Cy Young Ace (fictional) Harvey Ramirez hurting his elbow the day we clinched the AL with 10 days to go in the regular season... he was out for 24 or so days...meaning I had to juggle my rotation to get him in fit... he was rusty...and it just threw my whole rotation and bullpen out of whack..
He was up again in the game 7.....when it was all on the line had pitched a 7 inning no hitter we were up 1-0......but he was absolutely cooked.. 18% exhausted...and after he hit the first batter I has to lift him and of course my reliever who I am not talking to right now...  gave up a HR immediately giving them ( the LA Dodgers) a 2-1 lead..and the World Series....
Broken dreams but man it got me good me proper right in the feels, when I was least expecting it!! What an amazing game this is, despite its flaws. |
I certainly love the worlds that come alive when I play this game! The dynasty I just started, that included this perfect game, already has a lot of personality.
I plan to sim days/weeks at a time, but I decided to play out the first game in full since it was the very first one in this league's history. Craziness again!
Doc White, he of the perfect game in the exhibition, walked the first batter he faced and gave up a hit a few batters later. Amazingly, he pitched for 10 innings - 153 total pitches - and the game was still tied 0-0.
We jumped ahead 2-0 in the top of the 11th, then reliever Wiley Piatt - the last player I signed before the season started because I needed another lefty - gave up a grand slam to power third-baseman Jimmy Collins. I literally thought about intentionally walking Collins, who is a masher, to bring up a subpar lefty behind him, even though it would have surrendered a run. I didn't, told Piatt to pitch around Collins but he grooved a pitch right down the middle on a full count ...
Game over. Heartbreak. (But so much fun!)