Ball Five Baseball 2020-2025

2020–2025: Ohtani, Judge and the modern game.

It starts with the strange 60-game season of 2020. Then come six seasons of modern greats. Aaron Judge hits 62 homers to set the American League record. Shohei Ohtani does what no one has done since Ruth, starring on the mound and at the plate, then becomes the first 50-homer, 50-steal player ever. The Braves, Astros and Rangers each win a title, and the Dodgers win back-to-back crowns in 2024 and 2025.

Now you manage them, every team and every season from 2020 to 2025, 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.