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Hondo

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  1. What do you know...
  2. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt (knees). Shocker.
  3. O'Dowd has had the best approach all night. Hit it right at him, but sat on the hook.
  4. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  5. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  6. No. Absolutely wrong, with the exception of the pitcher having a dominating fastball. This guy's is 92-93 and straight as a fucking arrow...no movement. You can fight that off all day and sit on the other shit.
  7. When you know you're not going to get many (if any) fastballs for strikes and the guy has a good change up, you basically go up there with the approach of "count to 1, then swing opposite field." It's the only way to force you to let the ball travel. It also gives you a chance to see the bottom fall out of the change up and you can check/lay off. As it is, they're up there with fastball timing and they're committing before the changeup dumps. On the breaking ball, they see spin and they're just looping their swing to keep the bat in the zone, hopefully long enough to make contact. Result - weak pull ground ball. Think opposite field and they'll barrel them up with some stank on it. You don't beat pitchers like him with home runs (and the ball ain't carrying tonight anyway). You beat them with single after single after single. And you fucking run - stealing on those changeups in the dirt and hit-and-run on the others.
  8. They're NOT doing it, and not because it's not easy. They're just not. That's why it's so fucking maddening.
  9. There's the FB. Setting up the...
  10. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  11. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  12. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  13. This goofy bastard KNOWS he doesn't have a fastball that can beat anybody, so he's only going to throw it occasionally to setup that badass changeup. WHY are are even looking for it? We should be teeing off on his off speed stuff, specifically the breaking pitch. The bottom falls out of the changeup, so I wouldn't even swing at that unless it started chest high. Basically, look for spin and pound it opposite field. I'm sick of fucking typing it. We should have about 15 hits that all look just like Daly's long single in the gap (or the mirror image for our lefties). No "playing for tomorrow." It's a 3 run game and we should be hammering this pencil-necked fuck.
  14. 3 batters, three absolutely meat first pitch breaking balls. Followed by another or a changeup. Threw 2 fastballs in the inning and those were to set up the change up. PP laid off those, then was looking for the FB in (can't blame him) and got a front door breaking ball. If they'll fucking sit on the offspeed and look to go opposite field, they'll be able to handle anything he throws. The only contact they're making with his offspeed stuff is weak pull ground balls because they're WAY early and just dragging the bat through the zone.
  15. Changeup down coming.
  16. And...led PP off with...a...high breaking ball.
  17. Sit on the MF-ing breaking ball and changeup. The ONLY swing at a fastball is to foul it off and get to the next pitch. For fuck's sake, it's not that hard.
  18. Led Thomas off with a high breaking ball.
  19. See? Led Daly off with a meat breaking pitch that should have been parked in the trees.
  20. Was going to mention earlier that something seemed off with GG. The ball is getting on him a little quick...like he's not seeing it well. He told LBJ to recheck his pitch call at least once, but I don't think they're getting crossed up. The ball's just getting on him...his glove is late.
  21. I'm just a "played 2 years of college ball before injuries ended everything and that was 25 years ago" nobody.
  22. 4 innings left and it's a 3 run game. If they'll sit off speed like I'm saying, we'll have the lead back by the bottom of the 6th. Their pitcher has a killer changeup, but that's it. His breaking ball is up and his FB has no run. He's making us look foolish because we're trying to hit fastballs that aren't coming.
  23. Stanford hitters have basically been told "if you see spin, do not swing." The zone is so tight and with LBJ's 6-12 movement, if it's spinning, they know it'll be below the zone and they're laying off. Very good coaching and good plate discipline. Gotta give them credit for that.
  24. Make him pick a changeup out of the dirt and throw out EK. If he can do that, then so be it. But make him. Put the pressure on.
  25. Surprised we aren't running more with as much off speed stuff as he's throwing too. If he has 1 or 2 strikes and has just thrown a fastball, I'd have them running since the changeup in the dirt is coming.
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