How 2 beat the baseball minigame
Also glad you finally got a 3DS Dusty 
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Knowledge and luck. Hitting the ball earlier causes it to go to the right. Hitting it later causes it to go to the left. Holding up(if I remember) causes it to hit the vases closest, holding down causes the ball to hit the vases in the back. Neutral causes it to go to/down the middle.
Once you get the timing right you'll be able to get the ball in the general direction you want, but I could never get it to go
exactly where I wanted, hence the luck. What you need to do is:
1) hit 3 vases in a row. This causes a crow to appear which if you hit you get 20 points. This is the key to really getting the score for the heart piece. Go for streaks. Try to avoid hitting in an area void of pots as it's better to hit a regular pot and keep a streak going than to go for a gold pot and miss. Even if you miss the bird when it's in the middle, it's fairly easy to hit it on the left as well.
2) Avoid hitting the pitcher. He'll rebel via a fast pitch that can be hit, but you'll never have the reaction time to hit it where you want. If you don't get a strike you might miss a pot and end a streak.
3) Hit the crabs to make all the vases respawn, which is necessary for the streaks.
4) Good luck.