In Rickey, I’ve had my relief pitchers hitting in the late innings and not being pinch hit for, even in close games. In my most recent game, my relief pitcher batted twice, and made the last out in the 9th of a 1 run game.

I had pinch hitters available, his box is checked, so he’s able to be pinch hit for, and my pinch hit setting is on average. Any idea why this might be happening? It seems to be happening every game

I would guess that between your Defensive replacement and/or Rest settings, you should have PHs available but the sim manager is holding them out for other possible usage. I'm carrying one player who's a DH/C4. He's had 8 PHABs in 16 games so far, because he isn't really needed at any position.

I suppose you could try boosting the PH setting above average. I've never done it so I'm not sure what unexpected effects might happen.

Its been happening to my NL teams in worlds without Universal DH since a recent update - my *theory* is NL relief pitchers haven't faced 3 batters and thus are being forced to pitch the next inning, but unlike in real baseball where those pitchers are no longer required to bat while they wait to pitch, here they are still forced to bat and not get pinch hit for. Thus my strong suggestion (which I also sent in a ticket) is that worlds without universal DH should not enforce the 3 batter minimum for pitchers.

This is happening in all worlds without the universal DH. I submitted a ticket asking for a workaround. The reply: "There isn't a setting that's going to really make it so the pitcher won't bat in these situations."

Please consider upvoting (Click on the up arrow) of my Community/Feedback post on Pitchers Batting in Obvious PH Situations.

I looked into some of ttnorm’s games. A common occurrence was that a pitcher faced 3 batters, retired them all, and then did not get hit for.

SiteStaff, if you’re reading this— please check the new 3-batter minimum code and make sure that the check for number of batters faced can occur at the end of an inning. My concern is that the sim isn’t allowing a PH because it doesn’t check if the pitcher has faced 3 batters until the beginning of the next defensive inning, so it thinks the pitcher can’t be removed.

I’m not 100% sure that’s the cause. See the game below. My relief pitcher batted twice, including making the last out in a one run game in the bottom of the 9th, after throwing 2.2 innings and facing 8 hitters.

https://www.whatifsports.com/hbd/Pages/Popups/Boxscore.aspx?gid=146393940&tab=box&mode=classic

I was told in a ticket that there is a bug and they are working on a fix, what that fix is remains to be seen…

Posted by goodtymes31 on 9/23/2026 11:14:00 PM (view original):
I’m not 100% sure that’s the cause. See the game below. My relief pitcher batted twice, including making the last out in a one run game in the bottom of the 9th, after throwing 2.2 innings and facing 8 hitters.

https://www.whatifsports.com/hbd/Pages/Popups/Boxscore.aspx?gid=146393940&tab=box&mode=classic

Agree. In my AM game, my LR pitcher pitched 3 innings and was not pinch hit for in a tied game with a runner on base in the bottom of the 8th.

The fix for this bug is now live. Thank you for raising the issue.

Posted by tzentmeyer on 9/24/2026 1:54:00 PM (view original):
The fix for this bug is now live. Thank you for raising the issue.

Can you clarify what the fix is (or isn't), so we know what to be looking for? Thanks.

In the prior release, there was a mistake made merging code involving a closing curly brace being in the wrong spot which short-circuited some logic flow.

Net effect of the mistake: when evaluating to pinch-hit for a pitcher, the engine would only pinch-hit for a pitcher when the batting team was in the 7th inning or later AND led by exactly 1–3 runs.

The fix restores the expected logic flow.

Much appreciated