- Sep 29, 2014
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I'm with Sweet Lou...you want them to swing but they can't chase. Striking out trying to make contact doesn't do you any good.
Had a couple situations like this that stick out and honestly the ones that stick out are when the kid comes through, maybe a dozen times it doesn't work out but I guess those don't jump into my mind because it was just happening as expected.
I coached my sons BB team and we were the only team that even came close all year to beating the stud team, finally towards the end of the season we have last bats one run down in this situation and my stud hitter walks literally nothing close to swing at, next kid up is smallest kid on the team and barely makes contact and when he does its pretty weak...first pitch drilled over first base just fair we win.
Our regular rec season was over and we had one stud team and one good team that was basically where all the All Stars were pulled from I got the best player on my team on but the coach really wouldn't budge to get me a second girl...I begged and I mean groveled, pleaded and pestered this guy until finally he says "sure but she probably won't play much". Didn't matter to me because I knew once she started practicing she would work her way into the lineup, to his credit this guy did care about putting the best team on the field he just didn't really know how good this girl was. So I drive up for the state finals to watch the last game and they are in this situation down one and this coaches favorite player is up but they just don't pitch anything remotely in the zone, next batter up you guessed it their All Star run is on the line with the girl he didn't want up at the plate, and she drove that ball in the gap almost to the base of the fence...game over we win. After the game I couldn't help myself and gave him the "told you so" he just smiled and said "thanks you were right".
Had a couple situations like this that stick out and honestly the ones that stick out are when the kid comes through, maybe a dozen times it doesn't work out but I guess those don't jump into my mind because it was just happening as expected.
I coached my sons BB team and we were the only team that even came close all year to beating the stud team, finally towards the end of the season we have last bats one run down in this situation and my stud hitter walks literally nothing close to swing at, next kid up is smallest kid on the team and barely makes contact and when he does its pretty weak...first pitch drilled over first base just fair we win.
Our regular rec season was over and we had one stud team and one good team that was basically where all the All Stars were pulled from I got the best player on my team on but the coach really wouldn't budge to get me a second girl...I begged and I mean groveled, pleaded and pestered this guy until finally he says "sure but she probably won't play much". Didn't matter to me because I knew once she started practicing she would work her way into the lineup, to his credit this guy did care about putting the best team on the field he just didn't really know how good this girl was. So I drive up for the state finals to watch the last game and they are in this situation down one and this coaches favorite player is up but they just don't pitch anything remotely in the zone, next batter up you guessed it their All Star run is on the line with the girl he didn't want up at the plate, and she drove that ball in the gap almost to the base of the fence...game over we win. After the game I couldn't help myself and gave him the "told you so" he just smiled and said "thanks you were right".