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CaCO3Girl10,000+ posts

WashBarn posted:
We're seeing so many low and/or outside pitches off the plate this season it's crazy. How should players prepare to hit balls at their knees 9 inches off the plate? Understanding that with 2 strikes you need to be in big time protect mode -but being down 0-2 on 2 badly called strikes is a tough place to be.

I will take your game over the one I saw this year.

JV game, both sides had fairly good command of the strike zone. There were a lot of painted corners and very VERY pretty pitches....all BALLS! Up the middle, waist height, was the only strike being called. Both sides tried 3 different pitchers, from super fast to super slow, heck we threw in a submarine pitcher...nothing worked. Between both sides the ump rung up 25 walks that game....game was almost 3 hours long!

4/21/177:21 AM

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