Tennessee Softball

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I didn’t think we would even get back in it. Good job Caylan. Our overall hitting is not good right now. Out upperclassmen need to step up. The missed fly ball set the tone for the game. Maybe we found our mojo a little at the end.
 
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Just thinking out loud. Why do you never see softball players choke up with 2 strikes or when there are runners at 3rd with fewer than 2 outs and you MUST put the ball in play? You see it more in baseball, but even they don't do it enough. You have better control of anything the closer you hold it to the business end. A bat, a golf club, a pencil. The plate is 17" wide. I guess most players swing about a 34" bat? Choking up 2" will reduce your reach of the low outside pitch, but that's a tough pitch to hit anyway. It will increase your control and your bat quickness and should improve your chances of making contact in all other quadrants of the zone. Just a pet peeve of mine.
 
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larjoranj said:
Just thinking out loud. Why do you never see softball players choke up with 2 strikes or when there are runners at 3rd with fewer than 2 outs and you MUST put the ball in play? You see it more in baseball, but even they don't do it enough. You have better control of anything the closer you hold it to the business end. A bat, a golf club, a pencil. The plate is 17" wide. I guess most players swing about a 34" bat? Choking up 2" will reduce your reach of the low outside pitch, but that's a tough pitch to hit anyway. It will increase your control and your bat quickness and should improve your chances of making contact in all other quadrants of the zone. Just a pet peeve of mine.
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Hitters aren’t taught to protect the plate with two strikes anymore. I agree with you but it’s swing away with two strikes now
 
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I was switching back and forth between softball and baseball today so I didn't see it all. A couple of observations though. I think we sometimes under utilize the change up, but twice today I saw Arnold throw a change up on a 3 ball count. She does not have particularly good command of her change and she had not thrown one to either batter up to that point in the at bat, so she couldn't be sure of the feel for it. She walked both batters. Why would you wait until a 3 ball count to throw your first change up when it is not close to your best control pitch?

Also, it looks to me like our catcher often sets up 6 inches outside for a waste pitch. Which is fine if you are ahead in the count or if you have good control that day and can pretty much come back and throw a strike whenever you need to. But when the count is 2-2 and you set up 6" outside, and the pitch goes 6" outside, and the batter takes it for ball 3, and your control hasn't been that sharp, then you have to either risk walking the batter or getting too much of the plate on the 3-2 pitch. Why not set up 6" outside when you are ahead but set up 2" outside when it's 2-2 and get more chases? I'm sure I'm being too picky.
 
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What bothers me the most about slappers are they are not taking “full” swings to make contact yet they seem to strike out more than most and especially with runners in scoring position with less tha 2 outs. They of all batters should get contact on the ball.
 
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What's up with Leach's lower walk and higher strikeout numbers this season? She has almost as many Ks this season as she did all of last season, and her walks are WAY down.
 
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volman128 said:
What's up with Leach's lower walk and higher strikeout numbers this season? She has almost as many Ks this season as she did all of last season, and her walks are WAY down.
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For her she has been in a flunk for a couple of weeks now. I know she is patient but she has been looking at a lot of good pitches.
 
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larjoranj said:
I was switching back and forth between softball and baseball today so I didn't see it all. A couple of observations though. I think we sometimes under utilize the change up, but twice today I saw Arnold throw a change up on a 3 ball count. She does not have particularly good command of her change and she had not thrown one to either batter up to that point in the at bat, so she couldn't be sure of the feel for it. She walked both batters. Why would you wait until a 3 ball count to throw your first change up when it is not close to your best control pitch?

Also, it looks to me like our catcher often sets up 6 inches outside for a waste pitch. Which is fine if you are ahead in the count or if you have good control that day and can pretty much come back and throw a strike whenever you need to. But when the count is 2-2 and you set up 6" outside, and the pitch goes 6" outside, and the batter takes it for ball 3, and your control hasn't been that sharp, then you have to either risk walking the batter or getting too much of the plate on the 3-2 pitch. Why not set up 6" outside when you are ahead but set up 2" outside when it's 2-2 and get more chases? I'm sure I'm being too picky.
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Karen knows all this, doesn’t she?
 
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