Five Tips to Improve Your Hitting in MLB The Show 17

[Speedy]

Two of your points are the biggest to me:

1) Don't swing at every strike
2) Whether you use guess pitch or not, pinpoint a pitch and location and sit on it < 2 strikes - if it comes, boom it away...if not, revert to point #1

[NYJin2011tm]

Speaking of hitting, I have just reached the promised land in my Show career...Hall of Fame hitting level using dynamic.

[bukktown]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffy777

Good stuff. Additionally, I think finding the hitting cam that works best for you is one of the most important keys to improving your hitting.

Agreed!

Next to Interface, I think the camera is most important.

[bukktown]

Here is a funny Reddit thread about being a bad hitter....

I think we can all relate. At least once we have tried to swing at a pitch that ended up hitting the batter haha!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MLBTheShow/...ing_me_nooooo/

[Trackball]

Quote: Originally Posted by bukktown

Here is a funny Reddit thread about being a bad hitter.... I think we can all relate. At least once we have tried to swing at a pitch that ended up hitting the batter haha! https://www.reddit.com/r/MLBTheShow/...ing_me_nooooo/

This actually happened to me--twice. In THIS YEAR'S game, which just came out!

It's just plain embarrassing to be fooled that badly by a pitch.
You baseball fans were right--solidly hitting a baseball is THE hardest thing to do consistently in sports.
No wonder even Hall-of-Famers fail at doing this 70% of the time.
How the hell did Tony Gwynn (God rest his soul) do this so well? In such a pitcher's park, no less?

At least I learned a new baseball rule--if a HBP is swung at, it's treated as a strike, not a walk.

[eldiablodr21]

my tips (i follow these rules with my RTTS character who has 70 contact and 85 power currently)

1-never swing at first pitch
2-if the pitcher threw a strike, hes most likely throwing a ball next pitch
3-work the count into your favor (1-0,2-0,2-1,etc)
4-wait for your pitch (fastball down the middle/middle high?)
5-dont power swing ever (at least i dont, never found it worthwhile personally)
6- during 2 strike counts, always contact swing (unless 3-2 then normal swing)....i absolutely hate
strikeouts, ill take less power on my swing for less strikeouts, and the pitcher usually wants to take me out the zone for Ks anyway.

thats basically it for me, currently
im hitting 320/388/610 and im playing on all star difficulty with zone plus analog batting.....

if you use zone batting, DO NOT center swing....i do and it hampers me from time
to time, ive tried to not center swing against the computer and follow the pitch but i swing late and chase pitches that way so i stopped, but it is crucial to not center swing because 1-against the computer there will be times where the pitchers pounds a particular part of the plate with 5-7 pitches and you have to get to that part with your reticle. you wont be able to if you center swing
2-playing online against a user you will have little chance because that player will almost never leave a ball in the middle of the zone.

(btw center swing means to leave the reticle in the middle of the plate and basically not use the right analog stick to move it in zone hitting)

sorry for long post, hope it helps all who read!

[eldiablodr21]

also yea man hitting a baseball is hard as hell! I currently play in a slow pitch softball league and even there most of the guys I play with and I aren't always hitting bombs *shrug*

[predac0n]

Wide Cam, Directional, All-Star Diffculty (Batting,Fielding & Pitching), TNK Sliders & OSFM v1.5 is literally all you need to be a god in TS17


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