On Monday night, UCLA scored 16 runs against Oklahoma. That seems like an awful lot of runs, doesn't it? More than anyone would think?
On Tuesday night, UCLA hit 4 homers off G. Juarez. They hit the homer on the same pitch, FOUR TIMES. On the last homer, Tautalafua adjusted her position in the box in the middle of the pitch. On an 0-1 count, she moved away from the plate, so that she could not touch a pitch on the outside part of the plate.
Somehow, she suddenly decided that protecting the outside of the plate when behind in the count was a bad idea.
Luck? Skill? Divine intervention? Did the softball gods put in a call on the banana phone?
Nope...someone on the UCLA staff (and I'm looking at you, Ms. Fernandez) found a way to pick the pitcher or pick the signals coming in from the bench.
Go back through the game, and you'll see the UCLA batters teeing off on that pitch over and over again. UCLA batters made contact almost every time Juarez threw the pitch, like they knew the location of the pitch.
On Tuesday night, UCLA hit 4 homers off G. Juarez. They hit the homer on the same pitch, FOUR TIMES. On the last homer, Tautalafua adjusted her position in the box in the middle of the pitch. On an 0-1 count, she moved away from the plate, so that she could not touch a pitch on the outside part of the plate.
Somehow, she suddenly decided that protecting the outside of the plate when behind in the count was a bad idea.
Luck? Skill? Divine intervention? Did the softball gods put in a call on the banana phone?
Nope...someone on the UCLA staff (and I'm looking at you, Ms. Fernandez) found a way to pick the pitcher or pick the signals coming in from the bench.
Go back through the game, and you'll see the UCLA batters teeing off on that pitch over and over again. UCLA batters made contact almost every time Juarez threw the pitch, like they knew the location of the pitch.
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