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Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
Fukuhara gave up 1 run in 7 innings. Kuroda gave up 2 in 7 innings. Fujikawa gave up a couple hits for the blown save and the game went 12 innings with Kubota losing the game in the 12th. Kanemoto had a 2 run homer. I think both teams had 6 or 7 hits. Strikeouts were like 10 to 6.
Andoh threw 8 shutout innings with 6 Ks. Otake was KO'd in 2 innings after the bottom of the second saw a 5 run rally. Sekimoto homered off Kawauchi. Game ended 8-0 with Nohmi closing the door. Hits were around 10 to 6 and Ks were something like 7 to 8.
I'm probably going to bump up CPU batting now, but here are the settings I used for the two games.
CPU Batting: Hard+
CPU Pitching: Perfect
CPU Defense: Perfect
CPU Running: Perfect
Control style: Analog
Pitching cursor: Real
Batting cursor: Real
Pitch speed: Middle
A surprising amount of Japanese players are actually saying they're having a hard time with middle speed pitching online. I think it's perfect with real batting cursor, though.