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Originally Posted by johnnyg08
Hey guys...need some tips to get back in the saddle on the dish...I feel like my zone is floating, I'm missing pitches, especially the below the knee pitch that I called a strike a couple times last night. Just not in my groove so far this year...what are your thoughts when/if this happens to you?...how to you correct yourself?...I'm trying to take some more plates, so I can go back to the fundmentals...slot position, height, distance, timing...I use the Gerry Davis/heel/toe position. I just am really in a funk and I'm the one that it's probably affecting the most because I know that I'm missing pitches and I'm not proud of it.
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Perhpas the best advice I received was from Jon Bible who said treat the strike zone as a "window" and if the ball is in the "window" it's a strike.
That philiosphy has served me well.
The fact is no matter how hard "we beat oursleves up" we are not going to miss some. I sometimes "beat myself up" as well ,when I miss a close pitch for strike 3 and the batter proceeds to get a hit on the next pitch and the inning takes on a different effect but it's called being human. The point is to be consistent
Depending upon who is pitching in a 7 inning game we could be looking at 200 pitches or more. If the Stud Varsity pitcher's are on the hill it will be less but the point is we are seeing many many pitches during the coarse of the game and we are bound to miss some.
Pete Booth