Posted by: Coach Hughes () on Sun Aug 31 19:33:32 2003

i have viewed my final arch tape serveral times but i am still confused on how to hit the outside pitch with rotational mechanics
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> > With all due respect to Mr. Mankin, the reason you are confused is because hitting an outside pitch is not compatible with so-called rotational mechanics. On the outside pitch you have to hit the inside part of the ball, which means letting the ball get in farther as well as not fully rotating the hips.
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> so basically what you are saying is that a hitter needs to use linear mechanics to handle the outside pitch

Whatever you want to call it, as Doug said, you have to go after the ball.Without getting into a detailed lesson on anatomy, fact is, unless you are tall & lanky, have looooong arms, you can't fully rotate the hips & hit the ball in front of the plate (outside pitch) without rolling the wrists.