Virtual Baseball Season/Franchise Updates

As for the player rosters updating: I'm a little surprised this isn't a regular feature on all games, but the potential hassle I could see is with licensing issues.  When we did final rosters on High Heat, the approvals we needed from MLB and MLBPA were both painful.  I'm not sure either of those entities would care enough about "better user experience" to loosen their approval process, though I'm sure if a publisher would show them more sales/money they'd be willing to do it.

As for my season: Some more terrible results last night.  KC unexpectedly hit 4 HR off of Adam Eaton for an 8-5 win, Brad Penny (my 5th starter) walked the bases loaded to start off the 5th inning after which Toronto blew it open, and Toronto then outlasted us in a 14-inning marathon when we just couldn't get the key hit and get the winning run home.  We're now 2-8 on the year, mostly due to terrible hitting (.220 or so as a team through ten games as opposed to .265-ish last season -- on the same settings, with almost all the same players), and have lost 4 out of the 5 1-run and 2-run games we've played.  I can't explain why it's so much fun despite all the losses, but it is.  Probably won't get another chance to play 'til the weekend, but who knows.  Fingers still crossed that we can get hot and get back into the race.

My end of game highlights are gone too. :(

Originally posted by Slumberland No word yet.  My highlights were back in the second game I played post-patch.

The Mariners go to 15-11 with a 5-1 victory over Texas in game 1 of a 2-game series.  We got out of the gate well, scoring 4 runs in the first 3 innings.  Felix Hernandez was outstanding over 8 innings giving up just 3 hits and 1 run while striking out 9 and walking 1, improving his record to 2-3.  We had 14 hits lead by Beltre's 4 for 4 performance.  Kevin Millwood struggled most of the game and seemed to be leaving a lot of pitches up in the zone which led to a game high 4 doubles hit by Mariner batters.

I feel your pain.  I just got swept by the Nationals at home.  Sometimes I don't know what the game wants me to do at the plate.  Nothing works.