Reply to "Q for HS coaches: Are you OK with your batters sometimes sitting low/away with 2 strikes?"

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Dominik85 posted:
I also think you should dare the ump to call you out on high fastballs. Of course this doesn't mean taking a waist high fastball but try to shrink the top of the zone an inch or two

Good post. Thanks.

I agree that if you're sitting low, "you should dare the ump to call you out on high fastballs."

However, your next words suggest you don't want your batters to ever sell out low/away in the situation I described.

If I call time to confer with my batter, and ask him to sit (sell out) low/away, and then he fouls off a pitch two inches below the top of the zone, it tells me he probably didn't sell out low/away.

For me, sell-out means you're toast if you get crossed up.

10/24/191:21 PM

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