Easy points:
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When you fill up your and your opponent fills up their point bars,
wait until your opponent uses Power Blast. Strike the batter out
with Big Heat and you will get 100,000 points for a Big Strike Out.
You must do this a few times.

Easy runs:
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A few batters before your rookie is up, try to get base hits with
them. For example, use Carl Crawford, Hank Blaylock, and Justin
Morneau. If you want to do this, load up the bases if possible. Once
they are loaded you should be able to hit a home run with your
rookie without problems. If you do this four times you will receive
unlimited Power Blasts for the rest of the game.

Recommended Players:
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On the Rookie Challenge you have the opportunity of stealing ten players.
Take
outfielders first because if somebody gets a hold of a hanging curve you
want speed;
glove; and if someone's in scoring position, a good arm.
These are two groups of outfielders that have all that. These outfielders
should improve
your win percentage and increase your number of shutouts and no hitters for
experienced
players.

Carl Crawford
Vlad Guerrero
Torri Hunter
Alex Rios
Vernon Wells

Andruw Jones
Carlos Lee
Jason Bay
Carlos Beltran
Mike Cameron

Rookie Challenge: Easier Contact/Distance Hitting:
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Note: This excludes All Star weekend. You can get a better score for hitting
in these drills if you
place a pitcher with the fewest pitches in the #1 slot in your pitching
rotation. The fewer the pitches,
the more likely you will know what he is going to throw. This works even
better if you have a relief
pitcher who has all fastball types of pitches, (for example. fastball,
2-seam fastball, cutter). If you
know what is coming, you should not have a problem hitting the ball. Make
sure the pitchers you wish
to use during the game are not on the "bench" otherwise you cannot use them
during the game.
With this exception, it does not matter what your pitching rotation order
is, because you can select
them before the start of the game