Duane
some softball dude
I'd love to get the groups thoughts on this.
My last pitching rotation (3 girls) pitched in the 54-58 speed range. We weren't an over powering group but all had great control. Something I often did was call an intentional wild pitch. My pitcher would throw a fast ball high and away, sometimes up and in; often times off the back stop. Why? I felt the goal of pitching was to keep hitters off balance and guessing. We wanted to find that ideal mix of pitched strikes vs balls (70% seems to be a good number). Putting that doubt in the batters mind that they were kind of wild worked wonders in terms of controlling the plate. We obviously did not do this with runners on base.
Thoughts?
My last pitching rotation (3 girls) pitched in the 54-58 speed range. We weren't an over powering group but all had great control. Something I often did was call an intentional wild pitch. My pitcher would throw a fast ball high and away, sometimes up and in; often times off the back stop. Why? I felt the goal of pitching was to keep hitters off balance and guessing. We wanted to find that ideal mix of pitched strikes vs balls (70% seems to be a good number). Putting that doubt in the batters mind that they were kind of wild worked wonders in terms of controlling the plate. We obviously did not do this with runners on base.
Thoughts?