Ball Five Baseball 2010-2019

The 2010s: the Giants’ dynasty, Trout, and the Cubs finally win.

Roy Halladay throws a perfect game and a playoff no-hitter in 2010. The Giants win three titles in five years, capped by Madison Bumgarner’s legendary 2014 World Series. Miguel Cabrera wins the first Triple Crown in 45 years. Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw dominate the decade. The Royals’ contact-and-speed attack wins it all in 2015. The Cubs end a 108-year drought in a classic Game 7 in 2016, and the Nationals finish the decade as champions.

Now you manage them, every team and every season from 2010 to 2019, played at-bat by at-bat.

What’s in the game

• Player cards built from each player’s real season stats, with lefty/righty splits on every hitter and pitcher
• Cards that flip like the ones you got in the mail, with real stats on the back
• Fielding checks based on each fielder’s range and errors
• Pitcher warm-up tosses set his form for the day, and fatigue colors tell you when he’s tiring
• Momentum: a pitcher can get in a groove or get rattled
• Steals, pickoffs, hit-and-runs, bunts, intentional walks and pitchouts. You make the calls.
• “At the wall” plays: robbed home runs, balls off the wall, and wind-blown homers
• Real schedules, standings, season stats, box scores and play-by-play

Microsoft Excel only, not a board game. Works in Windows or Mac Excel. Download right after checkout, set up and ready to play.

Bonus: comes with the 1985–86 English First Division season of 5 Minute Soccer, free.