You can read day one here and day two here.

I had gone over the rules and sort of knew what I was doing, so I figured I would give it a go.

Naturally, the first team I chose was the Padres and you can’t play with the friars unless you have them go against their freeway rivals, the Dodgers.

My first, I’m an idiot moment was when in the bottom of the second when Chad Billingsley was up to bat. I couldn’t figure out how pitchers hit, I re-read the instructions four our five times, googled it and even gave up for about a half an hour. I just couldn’t figure it out, until I started looking through the rest of the stuff in the box.

Turns out I am an idiot. You have to find the number in the upper right corner of the pitchers card then go in the box and grab the corresponding pitchers hitting card.

Seriously, they have a seperate card for hitting, and this took me a good 45 minutes to figure out. Facepalm.

After I figured out that major mental issue I went on playing and it went pretty smoothly. Though if you play by yourself you need a way to keep track of who’s hitting and who’s on what base. I would recommend using one of the six hundred rubber band they give you.

So I played the first game out and the Padres lost 3-1, shocker right, I had no other brain gaffes and it was a lot of fun.

Adrian Gonzalez was a stud going 3-4 with a run, remember I am using the 2007 team, and Mat Latos was lights out on the mount, seven innings pitched striking out 11 and only giving up three runs.

On the Dodgers side Andre Either hit a solo home run in the first and Russell Martin got injured in the third inning while striking out.

I played another two games with the Padres and Dodgers to see how a three game series would turn out.

As it would happen, the game is pretty darn realistic, the Dodgers swept, 3-1, 4-3, 3-1. Though in these games I didn’t do anything strategic on offense, no hit and run or sacrificing.

To hit and run you roll just the two red dice and follow the instructions on the strategy chart used to steal, same with sacrificing and squeeze plays.

Once I realized how the offensive strategy could provide a helpful twist to the game I used it more in the next series I played.

For the second series I played as the Red Sox and Yankees. This time I used hit and run more often, which was successful about half of the time, but provided some runs during one of the games.

The Yankees won the series 2-1, winning by a score of 2-1 in the first game 1-0 in the second game that took 12 innings and a Alex Rodriguez walk off home run off Eric Gagne to win the game. And the Sox won 3-1 in the third game thanks to a Julio Lugo two-run home run set up by a hit and run.

Tomorrow I will break down the “Advance Rules” and play a few games using them.