As a pro manager and college baseball coach, one of the first signs your starting pitcher was in trouble was when hitters quit making outs on the ground and he started throwing fly balls. When I was a young minor league catcher, if I was not in the starting line-up, I would go to the bull pen to warm up pitchers as needed during the game. As long as the starter was throwing ground balls, I would trade the fans baseballs for cokes, hot dogs, and girls phone numbers. As soon as he started throwing fly balls, the phone would ring and the pitching coach would say, “Get (whoever) ready, we are in trouble!”
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Lots of coaches tell me to hit the ball on the ground is that wrong?
ReplyDeleteThese same coaches teach pitchers to throw ground balls. Pitchers love ground balls. If ground balls are good for the pitcher, how can it be good for the hitter? Ask your coach when he last took a pitcher out of a game for throwing too many ground balls /
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