quote:Originally posted by BobbleheadDoll:
One coach we had used to tell the pitchers if they threw a strike on a low ball count for the 3rd strike he would bench you.
If the coach actually did that, what an idiot. See the comments in my post above.
{That's like the coach who tells the catcher to set up 2' off the plate (literally) on every 0-2 and 1-2 count. Batters don't swing at a pitch that far off the plate. Why not just tell the blue to give the batter a ball? All that coach is doing is running up the pitch count.}
The comments are valid on the difficulty of knowing where the pitch was intended to go. But it's not that hard to know the pitcher missed when the catcher sets up on one side of the plate and the pitch goes to the opposite side. Saw that a fair amount in the World Series.