MLB The Show 20: 4th Inning Program Guide and Overview

The 3rd Inning Program has come and gone, so now we get the 4th Inning Program for MLB The Show 20. The top player rewards will remain at 300 stars, but this time we get the return of a more extended “bonus” rewards for getting to 300 stars and beyond. The 300 star rewards will be Cy Young Award Winner Felix Hernandez, Signature Series Joe Torre and Prime Jacoby Ellsbury. King Felix will be the prize for many, and that should be a surprise to no one.

4th Inning Program is LIVE!
🏆Awards Felix Hernandez (@RealKingFelix)
🖊️Signature Series Joe Torre
⚾Prime Jacoby Ellsbury (@JacobyEllsbury)
🤼NEW Showdown
🗺️NEW Conquest Map
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— MLB The Show (@MLBTheShow) May 29, 2020

With those rewards and more in mind, here’s your 4th Inning Program guide and breakdown. This guide will change and update as more content is released.

Showdown

The entry fee is 500 stubs as usual. The Final Showdown in my test run was against the Cy Young Award Winner Felix Hernandez. You will be on All-Star difficulty for this final Showdown, so some might need to psyche themselves up before playing this.

Winning this Showdown will net you +70 program stars. Along the way, the same reward structure is in place as other Inning Program Showdowns, so you basically break even by getting past the first mini Showdown. You’ll get a silver player pack and a gold player pack as rewards along the way as well.

Conquest

This is a smaller Conquest map than last month’s 3rd Inning map, so it should go a little more quickly with only five strongholds to conquer (the AL West teams). The one goal to be aware of is you will need to take the Mariners stronghold in two turns or less. If you don’t do that during one of your runs on this map, you can’t ever finish the missions and get the +30 program stars.

There will certainly be secretes along the way, and you get a Ballin’ Is A Habit pack for conquering all the territories.

Father’s Day Conquest Map

This map will net you 15 points in the 4th Inning Program.

Missions

We have the two standard online missions so far, with the third bonus mission being switched out as usual. The other missions that are added will all be tied to new players released.

• Win 10 games in Ranked Seasons (+15 stars)
• Win 10 games in Ranked Seasons, Battle Royale or Events (+15 stars)
• Tally 20 total bases online with Rookie or Future Stars players (+15 stars)
• Tally 3 assists online with All-Star Omar Vizquel (+10 stars)
• Tally 5 runs online with Rookie Honus Wagner (+10 stars)

Collections And Moments

The first set of Moments are tied to the All-Star Omar Vizquel card.

• Welcome to 1999
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Tally 2 hits
• Walk-Off Slam
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Tally 3 hits
• 4 Hit Day
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 4 total bases
• All-Star Season – 2 games
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 4 hits
  • Tally 1 XBH
• 1999 All-Star Game
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Tally 1 hit
• Victorious Vizquel – 3 games
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 7 hits
• On-Base Omar
  • Difficulty: Hall of Fame
  • Tally 2 hits

The second set of Moments are tied to the Rookie Honus Wagner card.

• Hitting Honus
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Tally 2 hits
• Doubles Machine
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 2 XBH
• Wagner’s Got Wheels
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Tally 1 hit
  • Tally 1 SB
• Homer Honus
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 4 total bases
• Bonus Honus
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 3 hits
  • Tally 1 XBH
• 1909 World Series – 7 games
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 8 hits
  • Tally 3 XBH
• My Name Is Honus
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 6 total bases

The third set of Moments are tied to the Prime Ken Griffey Sr. card.

• Team Gwynning
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Tally 2 hits
• Like Father, Like Son – 2 games
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 2 XBH
• Born Hitters
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Tally 2 hits
• It’s A Biggio Cycle – 2 games
  • Difficulty: Veteran
  • Tally 10 total bases
• Dereck, I Am Your Father
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Get on base 1 time
  • Record 1 putout
  • Do not walk 1 batter
  • Do not hit 1 batter
  • Do not give up 1 hit
• The Greatest Duo – 2 games
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Tally 4 hits
  • Tally 2 XBH
• Father-Son Power
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Win 1 game
• I’m The Captain Now
  • Difficulty: All-Star
  • Win 1 games

As for collections:

• 4th Inning Collection (+75 stars) — collecting all three bosses from the 3rd Inning
• Rookie Series and Future Stars (+20 stars) — collecting 15 Rookie and Future Stars players
• All-Star Omar Vizquel (+20 stars) — collecting 4th Inning Program Vizquel
• Rookie Honus Wagner (+20 stars) — collecting 4th Inning Program Wagner
• Father’s Day Bat Skin (+5 points) — finishing enough moments in Ken Griffey Sr. Program
• Monthly Award Cavan Biggio (+10 points) — getting enough points in Ken Griffey Sr. Program
• Prime Ken Griffey Sr. (+10 points) – collecting 4th inning Program Griffey Sr.

Bosses And Rewards

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Above are the three bosses at 300 program stars.

Here are the three mini-bosses at 150 program stars in the 4th Inning Program:

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• Diamond Ted Williams
• Diamond Chris Archer
• Diamond Ryan Braun

This program in total goes up to 900 stars, so that’s 300 more stars than the 3rd Inning Program.

At launch, you can get 240 program stars (excluding dailies) which has also become the standard total on day one.

Here are the main rewards:

• 5 stars – The Show pack
• 20 stars – Gear Up (gold) choice pack
• 40 stars – Selfie Time home run celebration
• 60 stars – Drums universal profile icon
• 80 stars – Diamond choice pack for a bat slam
• 100 stars – Headliners Set 10 pack
• 120 stars – Koi Pond universal nameplate
• 140 stars – The Show pack
• 150 stars – Choice pack of mini-boss
• 160 stars – Go Crazy Folks, Go Crazy home run call
• 180 stars – The Show pack (x2)
• 200 stars – Ballin’ Is A Habit pack
• 220 stars – Classic Stadium choice pack
• 240 stars – Going, Going It’s Gone home run call
• 260 stars – Beach Sunset bat skin
• 280 stars – The Show pack (x2)
• 300 stars – 4th Inning Boss choice pack
• 350 stars – 2,000 stubs
• 400 stars – The Show pack (x5)
• 450 stars – Chomp stadium sound and 2,000 stubs
• 500 stars – Ballin’ Is A Habit pack
• 550 stars – 3,000 stubs
• 600 stars – Players League Semi-Finals choice pack
• 650 stars – Headliners Set 20 pack and 2,000 stubs
• 700 stars – Ballin’ Is A Habit pack
• 750 stars – The Show pack (x5) and 2,000 stubs
• 800 stars – The Show pack (x10)
• 850 stars – The Show pack (x10)
• 900 stars – The Show pack (x20)

Prestige

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You will need to prestige these cards like the others, which is via online stat missions that will take major time commitments. Here are the stats required:

• Jacoby Ellsbury
  • 98 hits
  • 44 XBH
  • 56 RBI
  • 57 runs
• Joe Torre
  • 86 hits
  • 26 XBH
  • 48 RBI
  • 39 runs
• Felix Hernandez
  • 60 IP
  • 118 IP
  • 60 strikeouts
  • 119 strikeouts