MLB The Show 21: 2nd Inning Program Guide and Overview

Chase Becotte

Published: May 7, 2021 04:11 pm

The 2nd Inning Program has launched today in MLB The Show 21 Diamond Dynasty. More people than usual got to finish all the XP goals in the first program, so it will be interesting to see now if getting all of the rewards is more commonplace than it was in previous years due to the new way SDS is handling XP overall with no long-term XP goals. This new program will end 28 days from now, and the three new bosses will be available once more at 350,000 XP.

MLB The Show 21 2nd Inning Program Guide

Showdown

The 2nd Inning Showdown here includes drafting one of the three Bosses from the 2nd Inning Program. I have not yet done the Final Showdown, but it’s generally going to be the Boss from the program, but I’m not sure if they fill in a different pitcher for the Final Showdown should you pick Lee Smith. Still, you should always pick one of the hitters rather than the pitcher. You can earn a little over 4K in stubs and four The Show packs if you knock out every mission in the Showdown.

You will earn 35,000 XP for beating the Final Showdown.

Conquest

The first Conquest map includes conquering eight strongholds. You do need to steal 3 million fans as well, so be sure not to skip out on that before taking all of the strongholds. You get at least six The Show packs and a Ballin’ Is A Habit pack for completing the map, but there will be secrets on the board as well.

Finishing the map will net you 25,000 XP.

The second Conquest map includes conquering six strongholds. You need to steal (abduct) 4 million fans as well. You will get at least two The Show packs, but surely there will be more hidden rewards on the map as well, which you can see courtesy of JProGaming:

UFO Map #MLBTheShow21 pic.twitter.com/B8DXKAuguU

— JPro Designz (@JProDesignz) May 22, 2021

Finishing the map will net you 25,000 XP.

Missions

There are three online missions to complete as of now. This is standard and more will be added throughout the month.

Competitive Dubs – Win 10 games in online modes (5,000 XP)
21 Run Street – Score 21 runs in online modes with Prospect, Rookie, or Breakout players (7,500 XP)
Speed Demon – Tally 10 stolen bases in online modes (5,000 XP)
Summer Time Vibe – Tally 15 XBH with Breakout, All-Star, or Live series players in online modes (5,000 XP)
Forty Two Total – Tally 42 bases with 42 series players in online modes (7,500 XP)
Heroes In Relief – Tally 9 IP with relief or closing pitchers in online modes (5,000 XP)
Two Way Show – Tally 5 hits with any pitchers in online modes (3,750 XP)
Silver Studs – Tally 7 RBI with any silver players in online modes (3,750 XP)
Midas Touch – Tally 10 strikeouts with any gold pitchers in online modes (4,000 XP)
Can I Get An Assist – Tally 10 assists with middle infielders in online modes (3,000 XP)
We Do This All Day – Tally 10 putouts with outfielders in online modes (3,000 XP)

Collections And Moments

Note: For any old player programs from prior Innings, they still exist if you have not completed them yet. However, you won’t get the XP for “collecting” the cards in the new Inning, nor do you get XP for the prior Inning program anymore once it is gone.

The first set of Moments are tied to All-Star Fred McGriff.

Pretty Slow Start – 5 games
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Tally 16 total bases
Slam Dog
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Hit 1 home run
Padres Vs. Expos – 4 games
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Tally 7 hits
- Tally 4 XBH
1992 All-Star Game
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Tally 2 hits
More Homers Than You
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Hit 1 home run
Crime Dog
- Tally 2 hits
- Tally 1 XBH

The second set of Moments are tied to All-Star Bruce Sutter.

Just The Start
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Strike out 3 batters
Long Reliever Or Closer?
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Strike out 7 batters
Tough For Most
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Save 1 game
- Do not give up 1 hit
Bruuuuce – 2 games
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Save 2 games
- Do not blow 1 save
1979 Cy Young
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Save 1 game
- Strike out 1 batter
- Do not give up 1 run
Save Leader
- Difficulty: Veteran
- Save 1 game
- Do not give up 1 run

As for collections:

2nd Inning Collection – Collect all 3 1st Inning Bosses (50,000 XP)
All-Star Fred McGriff – Collect Crime Dog (35,000 XP)
Collect Rookies – Collect 15 rookies (15,000 XP)
All-Star Jason Giambi – Collect diamond Evolution Giambi (5,000 XP)
All-Star Madison Bumgarner – Collect diamond Evolution Bumgarner (15,000 XP)
Breakout Matt Kemp – Collect diamond Evolution Kemp (15,000 XP)
All-Star Bruce Sutter – Collect Bruce Sutter (35,000 XP)
Team Affinity Season 2 – Collect 3 Legends and Flashbacks from Season 2 (35,000 XP)
May Topps Now – Collect 3 May Topps Now players (35,000 XP)

Bosses And Rewards

Here are the three Bosses at 350,000 XP, plus their quirks:

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Here are the first set of players you choose from on the XP path multiple times. They are bronze and silver players. You select one bronze and one silver each time:

Silver Ken Griffey Jr.
Silver Chipper Jones
Silver Frank Thomas
Bronze Hank Aaron
Bronze Don Sutton
Bronze Brooks Robinson

The second choice pack you run into is a 2nd Inning Program gold choice pack.

Gold Ryan Klesko
Gold Michael Young
Gold Jim Hunter

The third choice pack you run into is a 2nd Inning Program Classics choice pack:

Diamond Austin Riley
Diamond Michael Kopech
Diamond Brad Miller

(I’m Team Brad Miller all the way here.)

You only get one bite as this apple, so you’ll need to make your choice count, otherwise you’ll need to buy the other two on the market as of now.

The MLB The Show 21 2nd Inning Program in total goes up to 650,000 XP once again. At launch, you can acquire roughly 92K in XP knocking out everything available, but that number will increase from here.

Here are the main rewards: