7th Inning Stretch

🎯 The Goal

Manage a baseball organization as GM, manager, and players through a full multi-stage season. Win enough regular season games to earn Season Points ($\star$), qualify for the post-season, and ultimately win two consecutive playoff series to capture the championship.

⚙️ Core Actions

The game flows through distinct management and gameplay phases:

• Draft & Schedule (Spring Training/Trade Deadline): Draw tactical cards from the supply tiers. Draft one side as a new player for your roster and commit the reverse side to your schedule as a future opposing team.
• Manage the Lineup & Rotation: Set a 9-man batting order and choose a starting pitcher. Roll a 10-sided die to determine which batter starts “at the plate”.
• Run the Offense: Step up to bat, gather the player’s unique dice and token resources, and chuck dice to hit conditions (such as matching pairs or high dice) to advance runners and score runs. Spend tokens to trigger rerolls or adjust die faces.
• Execute Base-Stealing & Extra Bases: Push your luck by rolling remaining resource dice to steal open bases or stretch a hit into extra bases, balancing big plays against risking an automatic out.
• Command the Defense: When the opponent bats, roll their team’s specific logic dice to see how many runs they threaten. Mitigate the damage by pushing your pitcher’s stamina, placing exhaustion tokens to alter the enemy’s dice values.

🧠 Why you’ll like it

It is a brilliant, quick-playing solo sports simulation that replaces complex stat-tracking with tense, arcady dice manipulation. Because every card features a player on one side and an AI team behavior on the other, drafting a superstar player means you are simultaneously choosing which dangerous opponent you must face later in the season. It perfectly distills the drama of late-inning baseball into a fast, highly replayable puzzle.