Reply to "First Pitch Strikes"

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Hate to pound this one to death but last weekend this was again shown to me how important this is:

We are at a tournament/try out for some of the top 16U kids in the West. We ended up playing the "B" team and "A" team for one of the top 5 - 16U teams in the country.

At the start of the "B" team game they had one of the best looking 16U pitchers I have seen warming up, kid was probably 6'4" nice long clean delivery, nice fast ball with nasty slider and curve. I thought to myself "this is going to be one tough day". Guess what? Could not get his first pitches over so the kids just laid off his nasty stuff until he had to throw a strike and they made him pay. He was gone after 3 and we beat them handily.

Next day playing the top team, kid on the mound looked OK, nothing special, looked hittable. Guess what? He was in the zone all day and his defense did their job. We did not score a single run off the kid.

THROW FIRST PITCH STRIKES!!!!

1/15/0810:22 AM

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