Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 19 minutes ago
Following hot off the trail of my extremely wacky Waluigi PB, here comes a speedrun in which... Paragoomba hits a home run? What the fuck? I did that?
Oh. I did that.
And I had to, because Paragoomba needs to drive in 3 runs in that match and a Squeeze Bunt can only ever get you 1. Paragoomba has two plate appearances to work with and he *must* drive in 2 runs and then himself cross home plate for one of them (otherwise, it's either a third PA or another match of baseball).
Because I only had one runner on base, the only way for Paragoomba to drive in two runs was to bat the ball to the moon. I noticed I had 5 Team Stars and said to myself "fuck it. If I get the 5-star dinger, it'll be extremely funny." Then I got it, and thought to myself "holy shit I absolutely must finish this run now". I was a little worried about Jumping Catch and the squeeze bunt, but held things together for a clean-ish finish. (Allowing a run was not part of the plan, but obviously not run-ending. You don't even need to win this match, it's just faster to!)
I don't think this'll be terribly hard to beat, not least because a first-inning mercy is the much more logical way to approach a category that literally requires you to drive in three runs and which in all likelihood will require you to score four. And as far as offense goes, the DK Kongs overall aren't that bad. So I don't think it'll be as painful as getting 1IMs with the Monarchs or Islanders, for example.
Still, nice bit of irony, eh? I sure cracked a long hit in that match, if I do say so myself. 😉
Following hot off the trail of my extremely wacky Waluigi PB, here comes a speedrun in which... Paragoomba hits a home run? What the fuck? I did that?
Oh. I did that.
And I had to, because Paragoomba needs to drive in 3 runs in that match and a Squeeze Bunt can only ever get you 1. Paragoomba has two plate appearances to work with and he *must* drive in 2 runs and then himself cross home plate for one of them (otherwise, it's either a third PA or another match of baseball).
Because I only had one runner on base, the only way for Paragoomba to drive in two runs was to bat the ball to the moon. I noticed I had 5 Team Stars and said to myself "fuck it. If I get the 5-star dinger, it'll be extremely funny." Then I got it, and thought to myself "holy shit I absolutely must finish this run now". I was a little worried about Jumping Catch and the squeeze bunt, but held things together for a clean-ish finish. (Allowing a run was not part of the plan, but obviously not run-ending. You don't even need to win this match, it's just faster to!)
I don't think this'll be terribly hard to beat, not least because a first-inning mercy is the much more logical way to approach a category that literally requires you to drive in three runs and which in all likelihood will require you to score four. And as far as offense goes, the DK Kongs overall aren't that bad. So I don't think it'll be as painful as getting 1IMs with the Monarchs or Islanders, for example.
Still, nice bit of irony, eh? I sure cracked a long hit in that match, if I do say so myself. 😉
