Posted by: skip (piks5@sbcglobal.net) on Mon Sep 10 12:38:04 2007

> This year of fall ball is my first on the big field, and so far im perfect at the plate. But, i seem to be hitting more to the opposite field then pulling it. I hit line drives, but for the first time im really hittign them to the opposite field. Any reason why?

Shawn,
I'm coaching kids who on the big field for the first time, and most of them have not figured out their new timing vs. pitchers 60 ft away. Also, the pitches have more movement, even it's not so much curving as just dropping from gravity.

When good hitters such as yourself are in any way confused or uncertain, they are smart enough to wait longer on the pitch, and not try to pull everything. You're in a new situation, so you are staying back and waiting, the way you're supposed to. Next year, when the fastballs get faster and less droopy, and more predictable, you'll start hitting it more up the middle and to your pull field the way you used to.

Then, when you are even older, and veteran teenaged pitchers have command and are curving and fastballing you away in the zone, you'll go back to hitting the ball the opp. way a lot, the way most of the successfull HS hitters are forced to do.
skip