Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

[bengalboy1991]

I find that the Sinker is the hardest pitch to hit. I make contact on a regular basis but I hit more foul balls when comparing to other pitches. It's tough for me to get basic hits on this pitch. Am I alone or is a known issue?

[FluffyTonka]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

I love it when I hold R2 and find out a pitcher's primary is a sinker. I just leave my PCI dead centre and at the bottom of the zone, bcos you just know eventually that's where the ball is going, straight at the knees.

Splitters are hard, a good fast ball is hard... but i think i struggle with the slurve or slider the most. that late break, the way the ball stays in the zone right from the pitchers hand, until the last millisecond.

gets me swinging and missing every time ... at that point you're waiting for a pitcher error, and for them to hang one over the middle.

[Detroit Tigers]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

Depends on the sinker/who’s throwing it, wouldn’t you say? Like every sinker in the game is hard-coded to be though to hit? No. That’s ridiculous.

[MiracleMet718]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

I don’t mean this to be mean, but just because you can’t hit it doesn’t mean it’s an issue with the game or something it wrong (unless you didn’t intend it to mean this, which my bad). It just means you struggle hitting it.

I hit sinkers pretty well, but throw me a slurve or sweeping curve down and away and I cant hit it or lay off to save my life. It’s why I try to look at what all of the pitchers pitch types are and just try to prepare for certain pitches in certain counts. Usually fastballs/sinkers and then adjust if it look like it’s a breaking pitch. That would be my suggestion.

[GoDucks1224]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

My biggest nemesis is the slider. I have no hard date to back up my belief but I would think everyone has one pitch that gives them more fits than all other pitches. That said, it could very well be that the sinker is the pitch that gives Show players more trouble than the rest. I bet Sony tracks all that info in online play, and maybe even Diamond Dynasty, so they most likely know the answer. Don't know if they've publicly said which pitch is the toughest tho. Maybe someone else can speak more knowledgeably than me.

For me it's knuckleballs (Matt Waldron destroys me everytime I play a series against the Padres) and sliders, but specifically sliders running away from me. If they're coming in at me, I can absolutely mash them. Just see them way better.

[Gosens6]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

Circle change ups are my number one nemesis this year. Playing DD against a guy with a circle change and I’m in trouble. It looks so much like a fastball that I swing almost every time

[HeadCoach2.0]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

I think that the original poster has solved the mystery of The Show 24.

The lower part of the strike zone is OP this year.

Last year it was the slider that was OP. This year you need to pound the low part of the zone with sinkers if you have pitchers who can throw one.

[Instant C1a55ic]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

I find that the Sinker is the hardest pitch to hit. I make contact on a regular basis but I hit more foul balls when comparing to other pitches. It's tough for me to get basic hits on this pitch. Am I alone or is a known issue?

I only swing at sinkers that are up. Anything down is a crapshoot.

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[knip]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

For me it's knuckleballs (Matt Waldron destroys me everytime I play a series against the Padres) and sliders, but specifically sliders running away from me. If they're coming in at me, I can absolutely mash them. Just see them way better.

I know! Even though he usually throws it into the zone, that knuckler sucks to hit.


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[MiracleMet718]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

I think that the original poster has solved the mystery of The Show 24.

The lower part of the strike zone is OP this year.

Last year it was the slider that was OP. This year you need to pound the low part of the zone with sinkers if you have pitchers who can throw one.

How is it OP? The hitting is pretty much identical to last year.

Or are you talking about pitching vs CPU?

[Gosens6]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

How is it OP? The hitting is pretty much identical to last year.

Or are you talking about pitching vs CPU?

Definitely not OP when playing DD. Guys are smashing low sinkers. I rarely throw them now

[MiracleMet718]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

Definitely not OP when playing DD. Guys are smashing low sinkers. I rarely throw them now

When I throw them in they seem to work. But I have to mix them up with fastballs to they get crushed. Helps especially if they leak a bit up in the zone.

[ajra21]

Re: Is the Sinker too Overpowering?

I find that the Sinker is the hardest pitch to hit. I make contact on a regular basis but I hit more foul balls when comparing to other pitches. It's tough for me to get basic hits on this pitch. Am I alone or is a known issue?

Depends on the sinker/who’s throwing it, wouldn’t you say? Like every sinker in the game is hard-coded to be though to hit? No. That’s ridiculous.

This is it. It all depends on who is throwing it. If the guy has a 4SFB and a sinker, that can be a horrible combination. Is it a sinker that will fall out of the zone, or a 4SFB that is gonna grab the bottom of the K zone?



One pitcher I faced last night was May. His slurve was a PITA. There was no reason for it to be a problem given the speed or break, but once or twice a plate appearance it would suddenly swing wildly inside and I'd swing at my knees.. I think he also had a sinker and it was very easy to lay off.