Posted by: john (ajjdad@hotmail.com) on Thu May 8 13:04:47 2008

How do you hit an outside pitch without letting it get deep? The hands move away from the body, and slap it away. Look, I agree that in the perfect world, the best possible stroke to put on a ball, is based on rotaional hitting but, it's not a perfect world obviously.
I'm fortunate to watch the Red Sox a lot. As gifted as Manny Ramirez is, I've seen him numerous times taking the ball the other way, as does youkillis, ortiz etc. My point is that , again, ideally, should they let the ball get deep and excercise rotational hitting? Sure.
But, when a hitter is just trying to make contact, maybe the result of being fooled, he's just trying to get his bat on the ball. Linear, rotational, a hybrid of the two? Who Knows? Just try hitting something coming at you in excess of 90 mph and, try hitting it with a thin piece of wood! :)take care.