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  • Rsnation
    Rookie
    • Jun 2003
    • 5

    #16
    Re: MVP? I\'ll bring this up

    Fastball/curveball/changeup/slider are a must. All three are diffrent speeds, and if you pitcher has all four, with style + grace, you can K 10-15 on a good day, or at least one per inning pitched on an okay day...

    Changing speeds is the key, but not repeating the same patterns is what gets you more K's. DOn't allways go, fastball-fastball-change/curve. Go curve high, change low, and fast ball high up out of the zone for strike three. then go slider high outside, high inside, and curve low out of the zone. MIX IT UP... using half the pitch meter is a good, but on strike three give it all you got.

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    • CMH
      Making you famous
      • Oct 2002
      • 26203

      #17
      Re: MVP? I\'ll bring this up

      Yea, using half the meter works to confuse the batter, but it's recommmended you go full throttle for that last strike.

      Unless, you've already gone full throttle with a curve and the guy didn't bite. Then I usually try to speed up the guy's bat with a fastball (out of the zone...he doesn't swing, but he thinks fastball) and then hope to have the batter swing at a half meter curveball. I think the lack of break makes the guy think it's a fastball and he ends up over swinging.

      Changing speeds is important. Change speeds with the meter and change speeds with different pitches.
      "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

      "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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      • CMH
        Making you famous
        • Oct 2002
        • 26203

        #18
        Re: MVP? I\'ll bring this up

        Yea, using half the meter works to confuse the batter, but it's recommmended you go full throttle for that last strike.

        Unless, you've already gone full throttle with a curve and the guy didn't bite. Then I usually try to speed up the guy's bat with a fastball (out of the zone...he doesn't swing, but he thinks fastball) and then hope to have the batter swing at a half meter curveball. I think the lack of break makes the guy think it's a fastball and he ends up over swinging.

        Changing speeds is important. Change speeds with the meter and change speeds with different pitches.
        "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

        "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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        • CMH
          Making you famous
          • Oct 2002
          • 26203

          #19
          Re: MVP? I\'ll bring this up

          Yea, using half the meter works to confuse the batter, but it's recommmended you go full throttle for that last strike.

          Unless, you've already gone full throttle with a curve and the guy didn't bite. Then I usually try to speed up the guy's bat with a fastball (out of the zone...he doesn't swing, but he thinks fastball) and then hope to have the batter swing at a half meter curveball. I think the lack of break makes the guy think it's a fastball and he ends up over swinging.

          Changing speeds is important. Change speeds with the meter and change speeds with different pitches.
          "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

          "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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