The swing was spent early, pushing is all she had left. For 200ft fences the swing doesn't have to be perfect.
To stay on that pitch she needed to decelerate. Almost like trying to check the swing but way too late in the swing.
When you teach such a push-like swing, which I generally refer to as 'clubbing', you build-in barrel deceleration into the swing. The hitter then must swing with the built-in deceleration that they have embedded into their swing.
Maybe a pull hitter, who stepped open, and this was the only 'adjustment' she knew how to make to keep the bat in the zone longer.
A hitter who knows how to hit the ball where it's pitched.
I don't know about this 'deceleration' that you speak of. I'm thinking you may be confusing that the swing is on 'auto pilot' after launch but, not decelerating going into the ball. Even after launch of the swing there still is some 'fine tuning' adjustments made toward/to the ball. Not something I would be 'teaching'(deceleration). Again I could be wrong.
Maybe a pull hitter, who stepped open, and this was the only 'adjustment' she knew how to make to keep the bat in the zone longer.
A hitter who knows how to hit the ball where it's pitched.
I don't know about this 'deceleration' that you speak of. I'm thinking you may be confusing that the swing is on 'auto pilot' after launch but, not decelerating going into the ball. Even after launch of the swing there still is some 'fine tuning' adjustments made toward/to the ball. Not something I would be 'teaching'(deceleration). Again I could be wrong.
That's training a hitter to be a contact hitter in MHO.