DD stopped growing at 5' 5" when she was 13. Her freshman year she learned that a couple local HS umps were notorious for calling outside pitches strikes, even pitches in the opposite batters box. Her coach told her "don't leave it up to the ump" meaning hit your pitch before the called third strike off the far side of the plate. But she took his instruction quite literally and switched from a 32 to a 34 so she could reach any pitch this side of the chalk in the other batters box. With practice she learned to put a charge into any pitch over the imaginary 25 inch wide plate. In a perfect world she should not have needed to go to this extreme but she embraced the challenge and she told me many times she really enjoyed taking control of her at-bats from the notorious umps.I just don’t really understand why you have to swing a longer bat when your 5.3.
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