ActionSims

Baseball Changelog

• Nov 5, 2026

• Bug fix

  The home team's lineup intro now plays after the top of the 1st, the same as the visitors'. It could fail to show up when the third out's sounds were still loading.

• Bug fix

  The roll breakdown under a play now names the outcome each roll picked, shows long shots as <1% instead of 0% and shows rolls to four places so you can see which outcome they landed on.

• Nov 4, 2026

• New feature

  With the announcer on, he now reads a short commercial for a made-up sponsor between innings, styled for the era of the home team's season. Click the field or press Esc to skip one, or turn them off with the new Commercials toggle in Game Flow.

• New feature

  Hover over or tap the batter's name in Now Batting to see his real hitting for the season he's playing in and the two before it.

• New feature

  Draft Seasons can now include Negro League players. Check the box at setup to draft them, or the league's owner can add them to the free agents later from the League Members page.

• New feature

  The announcer now calls every pitching change, yours or the other manager's, as the new pitcher takes the mound. A change made right after a play waits until that play is over, so the play always shows the pitcher who threw it.

• New feature

  After every half-inning the announcer now tells you where the game is headed: "We go to the bottom of the fifth" or "We're headed to the sixth." In a tied game in extra innings he says it's still tied and names the next inning in one line.

• Improvement

  The gameboard's scoreboard now shows the half-inning, the team hitting and the count and outs as B S O dots, like a ballpark scoreboard. The separate box that used to show them beside the field is gone.

• Improvement

  Turning off Real lineups and starting pitchers from a season's Lineups tab now asks whether to turn injuries back on. Players healed when injuries went off stay healed and new injuries start with your next game.

• New feature

  The Game of the Day page now has Points Standings for this week, this month and this year, adding up each player's strategy points with their games played and wins. Only your best game each day counts, so replaying a day can't pile up points.

• New feature

  After the top of the 7th, the ballpark organ now plays "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" for the seventh-inning stretch. It plays at your crowd noise volume and any click ends it early.

• Nov 3, 2026

• Bug fix

  On a walk-off, the game log's closing line now names the right winning, losing and save pitchers. Before, it could credit the win to a pitcher who left before the winning run scored.

• Improvement

  On a fly ball or line drive with fewer than two outs, the runners on first and second now take a lead while the ball is in the air. They head back to their base on a catch or keep going from their lead when it drops in.

• Improvement

  With player photos on, a new Photos on the field setting under Display can show each fielder's photo above his name on the field, before each at-bat or all the time. It starts off.

• Improvement

  The announcer now calls pickoff throws the runner beats, wild pitches, passed balls, a catcher's throw that gets away and defensive indifference. Runners who move up or score on these plays get their own call after it.

• Improvement

  On a wild pitch or passed ball, the catcher now turns and chases the ball toward the backstop as it gets by him.

• Bug fix

  On a strike 'em out, throw 'em out double play, the announcer now calls the runner being thrown out. A runner who steals on strike three is now called with a stolen base.

• Bug fix

  With Animations off, the batting order introduction before each team's first time up no longer plays.

• Bug fix

  A brief flicker on the field just before a third out played could show the next half-inning early and give the out away. The next half now stays hidden until the play is over.

• Bug fix

  When you're signed in, turning Animations off on the gameboard now carries over to every game you play in every mode, the same as your sound settings. Before, the next game started with animations back on.

• Bug fix

  Fixed the field animation on a steal with a wild throw. The catcher's throw now goes to the base being stolen, and the runner takes the extra base after it gets away.

• Bug fix

  The announcer now keeps pace with the field. Each call starts as the play it describes shows on the field, and the next batter steps in once he's done talking. On a slow connection a play can wait a moment before it starts while its sounds load, so every sound plays on time.

• Nov 2, 2026

• New feature

  A Print Scoresheet link at the top of the gameboard opens a blank scoresheet with both starting lineups filled in, one page per team, for keeping score by hand. Print it or save it as a PDF from your browser's print window.

• New feature

  Active Roster's Free Agents section now has a search box. Find any free agent by name, with an optional position, and call him up in one click, in Draft Seasons and custom seasons with All-Star teams.

• New feature

  On a steal or double steal, the announcer now says the runner is going as he breaks for the next base. He calls the result once the throw is caught, the same as before.