Honestly I haven't even tried. Maybe you can't?

According to the manual, you can't steal a base until the ball has left the pitcher's hand.

Forgive me for intruding but I have to ask - can I expect games from any system other than the NES in these contests?

Going to be NES only for these contests.

Gotcha. Thanks for letting me know.

If you get really motivated to organize things (and I'm sure organizing these is a lot of work), and wanna startup an SNES one, I'm all ears

I'd love to but I don't want to promise anything if I don't know if I could keep up with it every week.

Update +15. 15-0 in 6 innings. 

like Guts said, Mercy or Slaughter rule applies. Always need to finish out the inning. 

Nice to see you back Caleb! Btw,not sure if you know but you have an small outside shot at winning the sports genre if you wanted to take a serious crack at it. Of course Bert is in the driver's seat though and will definitely look to lock this one up.

I ended up taking this season off but I've been thinking about jumping into this week's game. I'm actually in the process of moving since my wife and I bought a house but I should be able to put up a score by the deadline

7 - 2 = 5

Score has gone up each night this week! I dunno if I can touch some of you Babe Ruths out there though! Thanks again to guts for the tips.

I'm not having much luck either. It seems like anytime you put up a 3+ run lead, the "NFL Blitz effect" kicks in. In one game, I scored 6 runs in the first inning only to have the computer come right back with three home runs on pitches that weren't even over the plate. Even with my current score, right after I went up 5-0 in the 5th inning, the computer immediately came back and hit two back to back home runs on pitches that weren't even close to being strikes.

I had a similar game the other day.  6 runs in the first inning, then the comp switched pitchers and slaughtered my at bats.  Once they went up to bat, it was homerun after homerun.  They caught up and I just reset the game then and there.  

Right now I'm sitting on a 5 point game but I'm still motivated to try and do better so I won't be posting any pictures up just yet.

Yeah my only other games played I scored more runs but then the computer killed me to win big time. But don't get me wrong, I'm still having fun with it!

This game really could use a quit/restart game option since there's no way to start over without having to redraft your team other than intentionally losing.

Score update. I finally managed not to get NFL Blitzed by the computer. My pitcher still had some movement left on his pitches so I was able to throw inside and get three straight ground balls. I'm sure gutsman will come back with a higher score, but what's the tiebreaker since we both beat the computer via the mercy rule with the same amount of runs?

Good to be back even if it's a hot second. I highly doubt it consiering Bert's a very good player but you never know. I had a good score ready to go until the last inning when my pitcher just crapped the bed and gave up 4 runs (on 2 back to back HRs). 

Just a quick note that when picking players the computer doesn't backtrack so if it passes up a player(s) you want just simply pick the players you want ahead of the computer and come back for the passed up guys later. Doing this should allow you to field a team with most if not all of the players you want.

+10
    it was not pretty but its a start

Here's mine......the best I could do tho game was starting to irritate me

I updated the tie break rule (earliest inning takes precedence).

I know how you feel I probably played 20 games before I got my -1 score.....

yeah gutsman said something about timeing when your hiting so i m  trying things but no go so far

Well, I wasn't able to procure a copy of this game, and I don't want to emulate, so I'm sitting out. I'll be in the next two weeks, though.