Power Pros Forum

Has anyone here thrown a no-hitter or a perfect game on the hardest settings? (all "powerful", etc.) I came the closest yesterday in my Rockies season mode. Kip Wells took a perfect game into the seventh against the White Sox in interleague play in Chicago. Nick Swisher led off with a single to break it up. If you haven't thrown one on the hardest settings, how close have you come?

You must be insanely good at this game if you can almost throw a perfect game on the hardest settings with KIP WELLS.
Anyways, I haven't played in a while, but it'd be interesting to see if I could pitch well under the hardest settings, since I usualyl play at around a medium level...

I know! I was totally surprised with the performance I got from him that game. I ended up losing, though. If I had Aaron Cook or Ubaldo Jimenez, I may have been able to finish it off. I've really figured out how to pitch well again. With a right-handed pitcher, I throw everything down and in to righties. I throw fastballs down and away to lefties, and breaking balls inside to lefties, and that's how I got to the seventh with a perfect game.

Usually, i try to pitch it so that the breaking balls are borderline strikes, so that they don't swing, and I'm so good with them that they usually get called for strikes.
Also, a killer combination is taking two pitches that break in the same direction, but with different amounts of break, and going 1-1-2.
(i.e. say I have a 7 KN and a 1 CHG. I go KN, KN, then CHG). Gets 'em every time, as well as doing something like CB-CB-SNK.

Hm. I've never tried that strategy before. I'll try it next time.

I got a perfect game with Tim Wakefield but I don't remember the difficulty.

I dusted off MLBPP last night and played a game on the All-Star setting. I had Orel Hershiser throwing a perfect game against the Mets until Steve Sax made a two-base error (shocker!) on a routine grounder by Wally Backman to start the 7th. Routine flyballs from Keith Hernandez and Darryl Strawberry made it 1-0. That was all the run support Dwight Gooden needed on his way to a complete game, three-hit shutout against Pedro Guerrero and his light-hitting Dodger teammates.

Using a pitcher with a large repertoire of off-speed breaking stuff is the way to go. Tonight, I will unleash John Tudor's array of change-ups and an air-tight Cardinals defense featuring Ozzie Smith, Tom Herr and Willie McGee upon the Astros or Cubs.

I use almost the exact same strategy! For me, I usually give up a couple of hits but I almost always get complete games.



NERD! lol j/k

I had a perfect game with a created guy on all the hardest settings in season mode. It was mainly the knuckleball that threw them off.

Ok, I know that repeatedly pressing the "throw pitch" button while the pitcher is in the middle of his windup makes him throw the ball harder, but does it affect his fatigue at all?

Total nerd. No shame to my game, dude.

I'm playing My Life mode as one of my created pitchers, a junkballer named Scott Trzesniak.

Last night, while facing the Pirates, I threw 7 innings of no-hit ball. The manager then took me out, because I was tiring apparently. The key is to mix off-speed pitches (Tres has 4 breaking balls - Fosh, Knuckler, Sinker and Slow Curve), and then throw the fastball inside or up to mix it up. I combine the low knuckler with curve or sinker, then the high fastball - like, just above the strike zone high - and they swing at it. Like the Red Sox, when Varitek stands up for a high fastball for strike 3.

Others have said it - just have a pitcher with 3+ breaking balls, and you've got a shot. Throw in a good fastball, and you're in better shape. If one is the knuckler, that adds to it. Then mix your speeds and locations, throw outside the zone now and then, and you have a winning formula.

about 2 days ago,I played PP again on Powerful difficulty,I was playing as Ted Lily and the cubs against the Rays,and I pitched a Perfect through the 8th,untill Evan Longoria got a double off the wall.

Yes.
Though it adds speed and break, his stamina is drained faster than normal.
I usually do it for the last pitch of an inning, to make sure I get the out, but it doesn't really matter.
And once the game starts drawing to a close, I do it depending on my SP's fatigue up to that point. If he starts sweating with 1 out in the 9th, by some miracle, then that's when you spam the, uh, spamming.

I threw a perfect game with Tim Hudson once on Normal. It was against some team I can't remember against my "dream team" with a salary of over 200,000