My name is Averey Kolomvotos im 18 years old and im a senior at Cesar Chavez High School. I have been playing MLB Showdown for about four or five months. MLB showdown is a baseball card game that was invented back into 2000 and stopped making it in 2005. Recently it came back from a guy named Colbly Tallafuss he made the 2011-2013 sets he is also working on the 2014 set right now.

Must be Wondering how you play this game. Well both sides have a 20 sided dice. Each team has a 20 man roster. On each players card they have a point value you add up your teams point value and it has to be at 5,000 points or below. When your team is pitching your pitcher has a number in the upper right hand corner and its called control. You roll your dice and say you roll a seven you add the seven to the pitchers control which is four. seven plus four equals 11 remember that number. After you get the number you look at the hitters number in the corner and if the pitcher has a higher number the pitcher gets control. Both the pitcher and the hitter have a chart 1-20 in the bottom right hand of the card. once you find out who has control you roll off the players chart that won control to find out if the player gets out or if he gets a hit.

The cards also have a defensive factor into it. Right below the players point total it shows what position that the player is eligible to play and how many points they get to that position. So say you want to turn a double play you add up your 3rd, shortstop,2nd, and 1st basemen total points you add that to the total of your dice roll and if you total beats the runners speed then its a double play. And they same thing goes for the outfield if the runner is trying to score. your outfields total numbers next to the defense vs the runners speed.

The pitchers also have a limit on how many innings they can go. some can go 7 innings or 6 innings. Once that pitcher goes past that limit they will lose 1 control every inning they go past their limit. There are advanced rules but we can always go there later because it gets really complicated.