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Arizona State's Annie Lockwood, 2011 WCWS, HR:
Danae Hays. Double:
you might have heard of having TO CHOOSE, inside or outside, Middle in, or, MiDDLE out.
The swings ARE different.
IMO a hitter only needs to learn one basic swing. I don’t believe hitters should be learning a different swing for each location of the strike zone.
Let’s try to make this simpler.
Consider the perspective of “looking inside, and reacting outside”. From that perspective you look first for the pitch being inside, and ‘react’ to the pitch not being inside. The ‘react’ can be thought of as the allowance of extension of the top arm … and that allowance of extension is largely governed by direction.
In simple terms … it’s a throw of the bat head … a throw with direction.