In MLB The Show 26, the 'Black Bat' bat setting (with 50% opacity) has become the dominant meta strategy for hitting, as it provides a significant advantage in making contact with pitches. This strategy was popularized by streamers like uhsizz and has spread throughout the gaming community, with players reporting dramatically improved hitting success rates when using this bat setting. The effectiveness of the Black Bat is particularly noticeable when players are in hitting slumps, as it allows for more consistent contact and home runs compared to standard bat settings.
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I Changed This One Setting And Started Hitting EVERYTHINGAdded:
If I lose this game, I'll gift a sub to a non-sub in my purple app.
If I lose.
And we're playing dribbles. I know this guy. E-Rod on the mound. Oh, boy.
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Costa wasn't here earlier.
Costa's [ __ ] obsessed with Alissa Leo.
Let's get old lord.
Good eye. I am David. Yes, sir, we are.
Links in the bio, baby.
Good eye.
Good eye.
Everyone start gambling in the purple app.
Bro, else I'm not eating your ass.
Wait, I'm kind of seeing the ball well with E-Rod though here.
Ish.
That's the great HE THROWS A DOT ON A 3-2. ONE OF THE GREATEST PITCH EVER.
[ __ ] Unreal pitch.
Absolutely unreal pitch.
Yeah, literally just the writing Calvin.
I I think it's a glitch, but who knows at this point.
Who knows at this point?
There you go. Yep. Bet against me today, guys. Bet against me today.
Bet against me today.
That's good timing, but I think my PCI was off of it.
Am I Am I ass? I mean, I I'm just getting STARED EVERY PITCH.
LIKE ALL OF PITCHES don't even look remotely close to being a strike and they just are every time.
I'm like, dude.
Like that's a strike. That's literally a strike, by the way.
I mean, dude. I hate the strike zone. I hate it.
I I I wish this strike zone would die in a heaping wildfire.
I mean, dude. I liked it at first.
The more I play it, oh my god. I I want to take brass knuckles to my [ __ ] face. So, when it's so small like that, it just doesn't look like >> [snorts] >> they're going to be a strike, but they are usually.
Excuse you, Kelvin.
I really am, Mac. Don't it's bad.
I don't know why.
I don't know what I'm doing differently.
I'm not doing nothing differently, I feel like.
Some days I just hop on and it's like, dude, I can't hit the ball. Today's one of those days.
Happens to the best, man. It happens to the best of us.
Sucks, but itchy on my hand.
On the man.
Black bat says, I might have to bring that back. I'm not going to lie.
Black bat might make its return this game. Cannot lie to you.
Black bat says is kind of nutty.
He might have to be brought out.
And he's only brought out when I'm in a slump.
That's a nut swing.
He might be No, he's out.
So, I'm saying, D, it's either like a dot like this, perfectly dotted, or it's like way out of the zone.
No in between.
It's actually criminal.
It sucks, bro. Like I don't know. I'm not a fan of the strike zone.
Like on the old strike zone, that ball is in the entire zone almost.
Understand, understand, understand.
That ball, I kid you not, nearly hit that [ __ ] Can I see where this ball ended up?
Any day now?
That was touching the zone? That is not where I wanted that. That's unfortunate.
That looked so much farther inside than I thought. Damn.
That's ass.
That's down the middle and he whiffed.
Best pitch in the game right there, case you're wondering.
Fastball down the middle, I swear to god it actually might be the best pitch in the game cuz you don't expect it.
I just randomly awesome slide [ __ ] That's why you put Ellie at shortstop.
That play right [ __ ] there. No other shortstop makes that play but Ellie.
Oh my god, a hit. Never mind.
His Ellie just glitched. HIS ELLIE JUST GLITCHED. [screaming] WHAT THE HELL?
WHY CAN'T I GET A HIT?
I LITERALLY CAN'T GET A HIT. This is hell. This is hell.
Easy with the foul ball, baby.
And then I get launch angled, and then I get launch angled, and then I get launch angled. Oh my god, I'm going to crash out. Never mind, it's off the wall. I'm complaining for zero reason.
That should have been a home run, though. Oh my god.
What is happening?
And then I don't want to hear the rest of that song. All right, [ __ ] you, McDonald's.
Bro, it's crazy, D. It's wild. It is wild.
I appreciate you, Xander. Have a good night, baby.
W man, Xander. W mans.
Really, Bruce Wayne? All right, I'm going back to black bat. It's happening.
The return.
The return to the black bat. It's back.
It is back. It is here.
Oh my god.
It's literally the best. IT'S LITERALLY THE [ __ ] BEST. WHAT THE [screaming] HELL?
FIRST [ __ ] SWING, DUDE. Are you kidding me?
First swing.
That's unreal. That's just the most luckiest [ __ ] thing I've ever seen, but I'll take it.
What was that?
And I swung a [ __ ] That was my fault.
Woah, GG Logan.
Six months in advance.
Woah, Logan. You sexy [ __ ] Six months in advance is unbelievable, Logan. I appreciate you, baby. W mans.
No ads for six months? That's a W viewer. That is a W mans. Smitty and Leon with the follows as well. Goody boys.
[ __ ] yell. It's going to be panty. I see you.
That was nuts.
Too late.
Like what is that pitch?
WHAT IS THAT PITCH?
Like PCI is god, bro. It's nuts.
Black PCI is the meta, You've seen it here first.
Exactly, Mass. That's the meta.
Part-time streamer, 6 months in. That's That's a W mans right there, Logan. W mans. W Justin D mans TD with the follows on TikTok. Appreciate you boys.
Does it taste like Nutella? It's for you to find out.
That is for you to find out.
Yeah, I sent him to God. I said it's him, [ __ ] So, yeah.
[ __ ] I'm on.
X channel points. Leon's channel points if you want a song request. 1,000 channel points.
Type in the artist and the song. It'll automatically queue up.
Logan, yes, sir. Wogan.
[ __ ] a Logan.
He's not an owl. He's a Wogan now.
Wogan.
Hulk Wogan.
Nobody, uh, a lot of steps, Dizzy. Kind of I would have to like help you.
Or you can just look up a video. That's what I did.
Just look up videos on YouTube, man.
That's what YouTube is for. Uh, Sulewski, are we off shrooms? What the [ __ ] are we doing out there, man?
Holy [ __ ] Too those high.
We got a drug test tool after this one.
Moco rings D fellas Moco.
M O K O. I used the gray one with the holes in it.
It's the meta. It's the meta meta.
W L X W. Yeah, I dropped a 20 bomb earlier in Gatsy's stream for a subathon.
How much for freaky time, Logan? You've already earned it, dude. 6-month in advance and a five gifty. That That'll That'll do it for you, Logan. I got you.
Me and Logan got some secret time today.
Look at the spot and bless y'all getting taught in the way of Beggar My Pardon.
I'm in Paris, Le Mans but back home home, I was starving.
I'm way more than a artist. Pokémon? I was.
I was a Pokémon nerd. I had a full binder of Pokémon cards and I lost them.
I have no idea where they went.
I could have had a [ __ ] Charizard in there for all I know or a Pikachu.
I had so many cards.
It was actually criminal how many cards I had. It was wild. Says I mug you? You probably do cuz I'm fat.
>> [snorts] >> Uh business with a file, it's good, brother.
It's gone. It's [ __ ] gone. BLACK BAT IS BACK.
>> [screaming] >> JAYRAM, COME HOME.
WE'RE hitting now. We're hitting a little here now. Come home.
I probably will still lose, Levi. I'm not going to lie. I probably still will lose.
I will somehow choke this game.
I promise it'll happen.
I promise. [snorts] It will happen.
Yeah, especially if I take swings like that all day long. Jesus Christ.
I mean, raw dog me to sleep.
>> [snorts] >> Black bat says he's back. He is back.
It's good home run. How you doing, baby?
What's good, BJ? And then what to follow? Sketty.
Miggy. Megalicious.
Sucks [ __ ] Never mind, I suck [ __ ] That swing should be I don't even know.
Framed in the worst swing of all time museum.
Is it West? Is it?
Shout out my hairline.
Shout out my hairline. Dot of the year.
Come home. Come home.
I don't know, Logan. I I feel like I get into a slump with it and then I change the circles and then I go off with circles and then it's just a reoccurring cycle. And then I'm on circles for a good amount of time and then I go back to the black bat when I'm slumping with circles and I have magically just started nukes. Then I'm on black bat for a bit and then I stick into a slump again. Then I go back to sir it's just that it's it's it's a loop, dude.
Literally just a loop.
Literally home run literally. Exactly what it is. Mama says with the bitties.
Bitties for my bitties.
That sounds fun Dizzy.
That sounds like a lot of fun.
penis all right. Am I better than playful?
Some days yes, some days no.
Depends on the day. Right now probably not. If I were to play playful he would he would play with my ass. That's what he would do.
He would play with my ass morbidly.
It would not be a pretty sight.
Unless he's also having a bad day. That is unfortunate. He was all over that and it's going to result in a double play.
Love it. My hair's fine, dude. I'm all right.
My hair is okay. I mean that's like a money swing and it's only 90 off the bat.
We'll take the hit though. Come on.
We're stealing too by the way. We are stealing.
Hit and run. Look at me go. Now that's baseball. Now that That's real life baseball right there.
Hitting and running in MLB The Show.
Name another streamer doing that [ __ ] No one but says with [snorts] black bat.
That's great eyes. That's great eyes.
I'm going to be on that but good eye.
And [snorts] a four pitch walk and his catcher just had a stroke.
We actually have 230 viewers in here.
Holy [ __ ] I appreciate all you boys in the purple hat man lurking or chatting.
Appreciate all you men.
Oh, piss my day La Cruz. God damn it.
Good eye. Good eye. Good eye. Hold on.
Let me lock in here. Base is juiced.
Type a one in the chat if I hit a nuke. Type a two if I choke.
Come on, Ellie. Come on.
Good eyes.
Good eyes.
Good timing. I just missed it. It's a run.
It's a run. We'll take the run. It's not bad. It could have been worse.
Damn. I just missed that.
Oh, I'm ready. Last hit's here. It's here.
If you guys type the two, you were correct. I choked.
Cuz I'm a child.
[ __ ] Yeah, I'M CHOKING ON IT, ALL RIGHT. Damn it.
Nice swing, sis.
Don't be an out. THANK YOU. YES.
Without you.
[ __ ] you, PHILLY PETE. I THOUGHT A BANGER.
OH, this is also a banger. Shout out Robert. He put me on to this [ __ ] Shout out Robert Morales.
I need to be hung in a facility.
YES! We're heading. AM I DREAMING?
HOLD ON.
WE'RE NOT. HOLY [ __ ] THIS is real life.
Oh my god, we're hitting the baseball.
Oh my god, we're hitting.
My glasses are crooked now. God damn it.
Here we go.
That's true. That's true.
What's guilty? What's guilty?
Bro, it's Notch. I put everyone onto the black bat. I'm the originator.
I am the originator of the black bat.
[ __ ] is unbelievable.
It's a black bat 50% transparent or opacity, whatever it's called.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, I uh Mass, thank you. Mass, let's make out after stream.
Me and Mass have a 10-minute make-out session on our own after stream.
And then we can all have a goonathon together.
Mass brought us back to life here. Shoutout Mass.
Pop with a follow. Let's go, baby.
I would use Ellie, but it's try He doesn't even have that bad of try lag, I feel like. Credit to Jay Ram, at least.
Michael Jackson Okay.
Remain calm.
Remain calm.
Go down to 10%? 10% is crazy low. I like where it's at right now. It's money.
It's been working, so I don't want to change it. No, this is a legend difficulty.
What do you need a refund for, Levi?
>> [snorts] >> Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Come on.
W Philly P W Philly P I think Yayo was the originator of the Who's Yayo? Yayo, he's the the Hispanic guy, right?
Is he? I don't know. I've been using black bats since last year. Since the start of last year.
I got put onto the black bat meta.
I put everyone on.
Without you.
Without you.
It's back.
Kevin G is back in full effect. You know who else is back? Says in his black bat.
It's not happening.
Come on.
Without you.
Don't do it, Philly P. Don't do it.
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS, WHO THE [ __ ] AM [screaming] I?
>> [music] >> OH MY GOD, ME AND MASS ARE GOING TO HAVE fun tonight.
Me and Mass are going to have fun tonight. Holy [ __ ] Come on.
Oh my god, someone touched my penis under A PALM TREE.
I'M ALL OVER THAT, TOO. I'm not even mad. I'm all over that, too. That should have been another hit. Oh my god, what the [ __ ] is happening? We might have to give Mass [ __ ] moderator, dead ass.
Get Mass moderator.
Holy [ __ ] Wow.
Unreal.
I'm just hitting everything. I don't know what's happening.
>> [snorts] >> Why is Kevin G playing? Cuz he's the best artist of our generation. Is that even a question? Why Why is that a question?
>> [snorts] >> Kevin G is nuts.
Guys, you do know Kevin G's my profile picture, right, on Xbox? It's a go.
Oh my [ __ ] god. Oh my [ __ ] god, I'm nuts. Oh my god, I'm nuts.
OH MY GOD. [screaming] >> COME ON.
FLIP THAT [ __ ] LIKE FLAPJACKS.
DAMN.
This song's a banger by the way.
Shout out D baby.
Guys don't know D baby, I'm putting you on.
Julian project with the fellas.
Appreciate you boys. Levi wants a refund because he bet on me to lose, that's why.
>> [laughter] >> I told everyone to bet on me to lose if they want free channel points. And I'm selling every single one of you [ __ ] points right now.
>> [music] >> OH, [screaming] AND I MISSED IT. [ __ ] This is a massacre right now. Holy [ __ ] This is an absolute massacre.
Golly.
>> [snorts] >> [ __ ] D baby is doubted. That's his nuts. I love me some D baby.
Bro, he's got a song called good day too. That song is gas.
Uh, baby playing with them keys like he Ray Charles, yeah.
Like Ray Charles, yeah.
Don't even do it.
That's a good little boy. That's a good little boy. And now watch this.
OH, TOUCH ME UNDER A COCONUT TREE.
We're in mercy range. Who would have thought we'd be in mercy territory after the last two games we just had. That's like a thing though, MacDon. Every time I I tell you guys to bet against me, I always just go off.
It's kind of nuts. Yeah, that's a banger, too, Dodge. What's good, Meeks?
Meeks, I saw you streaming on TikTok the other day or 2 days ago. I was at my girl's house. I was going to click in, but me and my girlfriend were doom scrolling.
WEST WITH A CANCEL!
Philly Pete [snorts] [ __ ] hates West got right now.
Sorry, Philly Pete. Can I get you to watch him again, man? He really is.
And that's A MERCY ON a Sizzling 10.
Where that came from, I have no idea cuz I was playing like dog [ __ ] before that, but I'll take it. I will take that to the grave with me.
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