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[toef]

Has anyone else felt like the relief pitching in this game seems a bit unfair?

I've played 6 games in Franchise mode so far, and my relief pitching has been consistently terrible. I've blown, 3-5 run leads after the 8th inning, on multiple occasions already.

Mariano Rivera's ERA is about a 54.00 or so, after a few appearances.

What seems to annoy me is I do pretty good with my starting pitchers... 8-10 strikeouts, 1 or 2 earned runs over 7-8 innings.

Then I pull out my starter for no reason, other than a set-up man and/or closer with full energy should be even more dominant, and shut the game down.

But instead, the computer gets hit after hit after hit. I'm not even missing my locations or doing poorly with the pitching meter, they just hit everything. In one game, Denard Span crushed an 0-2 pitch that was out of the zone for a 450+ ft home run, to tie up the game in the 9th. He had 3 home runs in 2010. It made me want to throw my controller into a wall.