HS is having a decent season. Faced one of the best teams in our league as far as hitting teams the other night and we lost. The question i have....this good team has a very "average" pitcher. What i would describe as lolli-pop pitcher. Really nothing to her except she shut us out!! LOL
Her speed is somewhere in the mid to upper 40s. (slow for our HS area) Didnt throw really any movement pitches but our girls just could not hit her???? From what i saw, the girls eyes got as big as silver dollars when they saw how slowly she threw. All our girls as usual were up in the box....as the pitches came in they were around the girls chests...and as they crossed the plate they were belt high or slightly lower. We consistently popped ball after ball up.
Now the question i have is....wouldnt you as coaches tell the girls to move back in the box instead of forward?
I always thought you moved up in the box against faster pitchers to take away some of the movement pitches?
Just seemed like most of the girls were swinging early in the count at pitches that were way high and they could not
lay off of them.
So after 3 or 4 innings of putting nothing together the coaches made no changes...didnt even try bunting the ball? Even with a catcher or pitcher that didnt seem very athletic to me?
Her speed is somewhere in the mid to upper 40s. (slow for our HS area) Didnt throw really any movement pitches but our girls just could not hit her???? From what i saw, the girls eyes got as big as silver dollars when they saw how slowly she threw. All our girls as usual were up in the box....as the pitches came in they were around the girls chests...and as they crossed the plate they were belt high or slightly lower. We consistently popped ball after ball up.
Now the question i have is....wouldnt you as coaches tell the girls to move back in the box instead of forward?
I always thought you moved up in the box against faster pitchers to take away some of the movement pitches?
Just seemed like most of the girls were swinging early in the count at pitches that were way high and they could not
lay off of them.
So after 3 or 4 innings of putting nothing together the coaches made no changes...didnt even try bunting the ball? Even with a catcher or pitcher that didnt seem very athletic to me?
