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My starting pitchers are REALLY struggling to go deep into a game, and it's because they're throwing a lot of pitches to get a lot of strikeouts. Strikeouts are good, but not when my pitch count is shooting up like crazy and my starting pitchers are only pitching 5 or even less innings. So how do I get batters out in 1 or 2 pitches?

When the hitters are patient there's really not much you can do. Otherwise there's the extremely unreliable method of pitching down the middle.

Yeah, that method always seems to work in success mode if I'm pitching, but I was afraid to try it in season mode because I thought it wouldn't be smart to do that against major league hitters.

Well I just discovered a strategy to actually get batters out and not give up hits. This is an already known strategy, just a strategy I usually have failed at. Vary the types and locations of the pitches that you throw. I've always had a tendency to get into a pattern and throw specific pitches in specific locations, on certain pitches of at-bats. In the game I'm currently playing, Rich Hill, my starting pitcher has only given up a couple of hits since giving up two runs in the 2nd inning, and he's looked very strong since giving up those 2 runs because of this strategy I decided to go with.

Well, depending on the patterns you use, the batters will either dominate you, or just whiff at most pitches. Shoot, sometimes, I mess up and realize that I've been using the same pattern so that I went through the line up twice using the same combos and locations. Then, when I go to one of my other strategies, they somehow start making contact! But yea, basic fast, change and deuce will do the job just fine.