{"id":1167,"date":"2008-04-06T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T21:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/06\/rtts-update-those-damn-walks\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T21:48:00","slug":"rtts-update-those-damn-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/06\/rtts-update-those-damn-walks\/","title":{"rendered":"RTTS Update (Those Damn Walks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put together a decent run at my first set of goals, but my plate discipline sucks, which is really a generous description.  I started off on the bench, but after one of the starting pitchers went on the DL, I was promoted to the starting lineup as the Macon Braves CF.  Not sure how that works, but I will take what I can get.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>18G, 55AB, 25H, .454AVG, 6HR, 8RBI, 2D, 0BB, 4K<\/p>\n<p>+Increase your bunting ability over the next 4 series.<br \/>\n+Increase your contact vs. LHP over the next 4 series.<br \/>\n+Increase your plate discipline over the next 4 series.<br \/>\n-Over the next 4 series, draw 5 or more base on balls.  [This was set to 2 walks, but the goal was adjusted.  Either way, I did not walk once, so it did not matter.]<br \/>\n+Over the next 4 series, collect 6 or more total bases.  [45]<br \/>\n+Over the next 4 series, have an on base percentage of .400 or higher.  [.446]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I could have drawn 2-5 walks I would be sitting pretty at AAA Richmond.  Not sure how I can get better because I have a lifetime of swinging at first pitches and everything under the sun.  Not just in videogames; real life as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put together a decent run at my first set of goals, but my plate discipline sucks, which is really a generous description. I started off on the bench, but after one of the starting pitchers went on the DL, I was promoted to the starting lineup as the Macon Braves CF. Not sure how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/04\/06\/rtts-update-those-damn-walks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RTTS Update (Those Damn Walks)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}