Straighting out the kid

[David B]

Originally Posted by waltjp

Sounds like you nailed it. Explain that the reason the pitcher tries to place the ball there is exactly because it's difficult to hit.

Good advice. That's part of the game - there are places that are a strike which give the pitcher the advantage - that's part of the beauty of the game.

Maddox, Clemens, Glavine come to mind as masters of those spots.

The low outside pitch right above the knee comes to mind as my favorite when I was F2. When the pitcher could hit that spot we had a good night.

Thansk
David

[mississippiump]

The kid started "crying"???? THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!!!!!

[kengibes]

When I'm teaching younger players about the strike zone, I will ask them to describe where they think the strike zone is. Invariably, I get a lot of quotations (or attempted quotations) from the rule book.

I then tell them, "The strike zone is where the umpire is calling strikes today." I try to get them to understand that every umpire has his own application of where the strike zone is and it's very benificial to spend the first inning determining exactly where the umpire is calling strikes today.