Posted by: dougdinger () on Sun Oct 24 19:46:55 2004

Hi All,
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> > > > After analyzing the proclivities of "average hitters" in frame-by-frame notion, I noticed that most of the great hitters have a predisposition towards pull hitting.
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> > > > Damon, though not a execptinal hitter, pulled an outside pitch for a grand slam, and finished the Red Sox's improbable comebacks.
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> > > > We can learn something from his approach by attempting to be "pull field orientees."
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> > > > Sincerely,
> > > > BHL
> > > > Knight1285@aol.com
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> > > I guess we should ignore the base hits to left.
> > One grand slam doesn't mean much. What about David Ortiz's home runs over the green monster?
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> Hi Dougdinger,
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> What about Bellhorn's two home runs off the Pesky Pole?
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> BHL

What about the near homerun he had to deadcenter? I still don't think you have to pull everything and try to jack one every pitch up at bat. There's lots of green between the two foul poles, and like Williams' shows in his Science of Hitting, the angle of the bat on inside and outside pitches decreases the chance of hitting the sweet spot by 1/3. And like Tim McCarver said "produce but don't direct". It's very very difficult to direct your hits. I hear more than any other cue by Major League hitters is that they try to hit the ball back up the middle.