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[Willets Point]

Test your own batting skills by playing Pinch Hitter 2.

[Batty31]

I couldn't even hit a HR in the sandlot level!!

[nymr83]

me neither.

[Gwreck]

Damn you Willets! I'm up to level 8 but can't beat it.

Levels 2 and 7 were the hardest so far.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Two is torture.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Humiliated me for a good 10 minutes before I saw you could adjust the bat angle. Level 2 is hard.

[Guest Edgy DC]

There are no popups, I notice.

My strategy on the put-all-pitches-in-play level has evolved into the Paul Lo Duca approach of "crowd the plate and pound junk the other way toward the 3-4 hole. I try to do a little Wee Willie Keeler --- note where the fielders are and hit 'em where they ain't --- but that usually just distracts me from the task at hand, and, while I'm noting them, the pitch comes, I get an itchy finger, and swing early.

[Willets Point]

Gwreck wrote: Damn you Willets! I'm up to level 8 but can't beat it. Levels 2 and 7 were the hardest so far.

I never got past level 2 myself.

[Guest Mr. Zero]

Level 2 is incredibly frustrating. What are those munchkins saying when they swing and miss? sounds like "godammmit".

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Edgy DC wrote: There are no popups, I notice. My strategy on the put-all-pitches-in-play level has evolved into the Paul Lo Duca approach of "crowd the plate and pound junk the other way toward the 3-4 hole. I try to do a little Wee Willie Keeler --- note where the fielders are and hit 'em where they ain't --- but that usually just distracts me from the task at hand, and, while I'm noting them, the pitch comes, I get an itchy finger, and swing early.

I've gone more toward the Juan Pierre route myself. Trying to get on top of everything, because a ground ball to a fielder doesn't count as an out.

[Gwreck]

Did manage to complete the thing last night. I found that while I was able to pull the ball at will in the sandlot and little league levels, once I got to the Major League level, I was a complete Julio Franco, with basically nothing going to left field.

[Centerfield]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Humiliated me for a good 10 minutes before I saw you could adjust the bat angle. Level 2 is hard.

How do you adjust the bat level?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

There's like a little white shadow the bat casts. Using the mouse (the wheel maybe?) I was able to move that shadow up or down so as not to swing over (or under) the ball. Once I mastered that it was like steroids -- all my shots were off the wall or over it.

[Willets Point]

10,000 points in 10 balls? My ass! The best I can do is half that.

[Centerfield]

I have yet to pull a ball.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I've got round two licked. It's a combination of Pierre and Lo Duca. Crowd the plate as much as possible and hold the bat high and chop down. Your feeble grounders will get some comically low scoeres, but it's not a scoring round.

In order to get through round three, you need at least two homers, preferably in the first five balls. The best success (not enough) I have in getting those two homers is standing off the plate, in order to get full extension, occasionall diving in, and holding the bathead low in order to get loft.

Take note that the armless pitcher will try and repeat loaction and speeds that work.

Once you get near or beyond the 10,000, you have to realize that one out could kill you, and you have to start looking to hit grounders again.

[Gwreck]

Only way to get the 10,000 points is to hit some HRs.

I could move the bat level simply by moving the mouse up and down. Moving L/R moved the player in the box.

[nymr83]

well i'm on level 4 now, but have lost my HR-swing again.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I've been trying Level 3 for a while now. I have my best HR luck pulling the inside pitch, and swinging late on high pitches outside. But you really have to be a guess hitter.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

After becoming an all-slap hitter to get through level 6, I've come to realize that now it's all I can do. I don't think I could get the 15000 needed for level 7 if they added my score from 3 tries together.

[Willets Point]

I got over 10,000 on level 3 with two balls left and then got a whiff and a fly out on the last two balls to bring my score way down under 10,000 again.

I hate this frickin' game and now I know why it's called Mousebreakers.

[Willets Point]

OMFG, I just got 9995. I'm going to rip my hair out.

[DocTee]

diabolical.

[Willets Point]

I finally cleared level 3 and very quickly moved up to level 7 where my warning track power is now keeping me from 15000 points.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I made it to the Majors but am also announcing my retirement.

[nymr83]

stuck on L7.

[Batty31]

I'm stuck in level 3 hell. Dickshot's tip on the bat position enabled me to get out of level 1 after finally hitting a couple of HR's. Edgy's advice helped me get out of level 2...I crowded the plate and kept my bat straight and hit some ridiculously weak grounders...but it did the job. Now how do you master level 3??? My luck is like Willets!

[nymr83]

Level Nine. i hate this game.

[Batty31]

Nymr83 wrote: Level Nine. i hate this game.

Damn....you must have edited this post, since you were on level 8 about 5 minutes ago.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wow, I'm reading a lot of frustration and aggravation in this thread.

I'm glad I never got around to giving it a try!