Do good hitters time the pitcher?

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Jan 20, 2009
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Tony isn't it? From FPF? Long time.

Check the clips I linked.

Yep, that's me. Coached through 2004, then went to the "dark side". Left umpiring in 2007 for the same reason I got into it - just don't have much of an opinion of most umpires. Coaching a 12-U team with no dd on it and having a ball.
 
Jan 20, 2009
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Or here. http://home.mindspring.com/~rmk/Riverasingle.mpg

Use your cursor keys to look at these frame by frame. Note the movement happening before the ball leaves the pitcher's hand to see my point about timing. A phrase I've heard used is, the hitter has to learn to dance with the pitcher.

OK, we were talking about 2 different things. Absolutley there is timing and ryhthm that will vary with each pitcher, especially going into hard focus, pre-load and stride all before the pitcher releases the ball.

I was picking on the "focus on the hip" that I am seeing in several posts across several threads.

tc
 
May 12, 2008
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Yep, that's me. Coached through 2004, then went to the "dark side". Left umpiring in 2007 for the same reason I got into it - just don't have much of an opinion of most umpires. Coaching a 12-U team with no dd on it and having a ball.

Good for you and good for the sport. Way to go.
 
May 12, 2008
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OK, we were talking about 2 different things. Absolutley there is timing and ryhthm that will vary with each pitcher, especially going into hard focus, pre-load and stride all before the pitcher releases the ball.

I was picking on the "focus on the hip" that I am seeing in several posts across several threads.

tc

I figured we agreed once we understood each other.
 
Jan 15, 2009
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You definitely need to get the timing of the pitcher established so that you know when to start your motion as a batter. Also timing when you will go from soft focus (seeing pitcher) to hard focus (looking at the area where you will pick up the ball).

We ran into a unique pitcher last weekend. It seems most of the pitchers we come across race through their motion, this girl was extremely delibrate, I got to one thousand three on a count from when she started her motion to ball delivery, reminded me of bowling. She wasn't pitching fast, but she was being effective and I think her change of pace threw some of our girls and/or they started hard focus too early and lost focus before the ball actually came. Tough to make a career out of that, but effective in the short term.
 

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