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How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:03 PM
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:04 PM
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Mind boggling. Hard to watch.
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:04 PM
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Beyond frustrating to watch.
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:04 PM
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It’s unexplainable. I don’t know how Monte doesn’t lose his #### watching that. Just pathetic.
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:04 PM
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That’s sort of how it’s going for us this year. At this point I just hope any postseason is still in play. We will lucky to win another series at this point with who we have left. Went from host, to lock for post season, to now praying we get a chance.
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:05 PM
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They weren’t straight down the middle but they were certainly too close to take especially with the bases loaded. Don’t know that I’ve ever seen this many backwards K’s in a season
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:07 PM
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There’s always “ that guy “.... here on tnet. Yes, they were all down the middle.
Stop
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:13 PM
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Strike 2 barely caught the outside corner and strike 3 was across his knees. There is not a world where the 2nd pitch was right down the middle. GTFOH
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Too close to take (especially pitch 3)
Apr 23, 2019, 9:16 PM
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But they were absolutely NOT right down the middle. The second pitch has been called a a ball all night long, and the third pitch (which he should've still tried to foul off), was a nasty curve and you are 100% wrong about either being anywhere near "down the middle."
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 9:09 PM
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All 3 we're very hittable pitches.
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That second pitch was outside and a ball, BUT...
Apr 23, 2019, 9:11 PM
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You got to protect the plate with 2 strikes.
Before the last pitch, I said aloud, “Well, expect a low breaking ball. Probably in the dirt.”
And it was a lower breaking ball. It’s not difficult figuring out what’s coming. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
~JKB
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Re: That second pitch was outside and a ball, BUT...
Apr 23, 2019, 9:38 PM
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You got to protect the plate with 2 strikes.
Therein lies one of the problems with this baseball team. It's not that you have to protect the plate with 2 strikes....... you need to protect it with with no strikes. If the ball is in the strike zone and you can get a swing on it, then swing and hit it where it's pitched. There is no shame in hitting a single - particularly when several of them are strung together. If you do that, then sooner or later someone will put a good swing on one and it'll leave the park for a grand slam. The key to consistent winning baseball is on-base percentage and situational hitting/bunting - not exactly small ball, but a combination of small ball and percentage baseball. We just don't seem to understand that the long ball isn't necessary to win games.
We need to learn to bunt, hit behind the runner and hit over the infield and into the power lanes with the line drive. Walks, singles, doubles and triples can win all the games you need to become champions.
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Re: That second pitch was outside and a ball, BUT...
Apr 23, 2019, 9:53 PM
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My issue is even if we’re a home run hitting team (and lately we’ve not been) if we were to get to Omaha that stadium traditionally does not yield many home runs. I would not think our swing for the fences philosophy on every pitch would play well there. Now I know we’re a long wat from having to worry about fhat right now but if our goal is Omaha I would think we’d be implementing a philosophy that could be successful if we were to get there.
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Re: How do you sit there and watch 3 straight down the middle?
Apr 23, 2019, 10:00 PM
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Just can't trust the ump to call a ball on a pitch like the last strike, especially with 2 outs and the bases full.
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Not swing? :)***
Apr 23, 2019, 11:04 PM
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