Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Mario's predictable Perfect contact pitch is exactly what we need to maximize our odds of getting the mythical Banana Ball HR. As you can see, it CAN happen. It still isn't likely, even under the best of circumstances. In the course of several continuous hours of run attempts, I managed to get the right timing for the hit 16 times in total. Two of those sixteen hits resulted in home runs. The rest, along with a few others that didn't have the right timing, bounced uselessly into the wall behind right field.
This attempt was overall going pretty well... until DK failed to knock the ball out of the park on his second plate appearance. I have to say, batting as righty DK feels weird and pitching from the opposite direction as usual is even stranger. I'm going to have to overcome the weird batting to finish the run, though - the pitching I now address by pressing X another few times in game setup.
A little disappointing because that second HR really was the last serious hurdle remaining - I needed 1 more run with all three Outs unused, and then one more strikeout out of my three remaining defense Outs. Absolutely doable - this is exactly where you want to be going into DK's second turn at the plate. Hopefully, this should serve as a powerful example of just how right ILs need to go in order to finish optimally, and how much dedication it will take to triumph in the end...
Mario's predictable Perfect contact pitch is exactly what we need to maximize our odds of getting the mythical Banana Ball HR. As you can see, it CAN happen. It still isn't likely, even under the best of circumstances. In the course of several continuous hours of run attempts, I managed to get the right timing for the hit 16 times in total. Two of those sixteen hits resulted in home runs. The rest, along with a few others that didn't have the right timing, bounced uselessly into the wall behind right field.
This attempt was overall going pretty well... until DK failed to knock the ball out of the park on his second plate appearance. I have to say, batting as righty DK feels weird and pitching from the opposite direction as usual is even stranger. I'm going to have to overcome the weird batting to finish the run, though - the pitching I now address by pressing X another few times in game setup.
A little disappointing because that second HR really was the last serious hurdle remaining - I needed 1 more run with all three Outs unused, and then one more strikeout out of my three remaining defense Outs. Absolutely doable - this is exactly where you want to be going into DK's second turn at the plate. Hopefully, this should serve as a powerful example of just how right ILs need to go in order to finish optimally, and how much dedication it will take to triumph in the end...
