Another thing about pitching inside. The whole “make them uncomfortable...move their feet...brush em back” thing is complete BS. It doesn’t work. When a kid starts playing kid pitch at 8, he gets hit. When he gets to be, say, 12 it hurts a bit more. When he gets to high school...
...pitchers throw inside because good hitters shouldn’t extend their arms. So they get hit. College, same thing. In A ball kids throw gas with zero command, so same good hitter gets hit again. In big leagues, with a runner on 3rd and fewer than 2 outs, infield in, here comes....
...that predictable sinker that runs in. Hitter gets hit. My point...you can’t make a good hitter uncomfortable. He’s been there, done that. He’s laughing in his head because your heaters inside are simply teeing him up with a 2-0 count. Then he’s going to torch you....
....you wanna get him out? Stop listening to that pitching coach giving you that outdated, awful pitching 101. It’s actually Quick Shower 101. Go in, out, up, down, change speeds, avoid patterns, and stop tipping.
Clean it up.
Clean it up.
Last thing...stop bringing up Pedro, Unit, Drysdale, Gibson, etc. Those guys got people out because they’re HOFers. Pitching inside was an art to them. For every guy like that, there are tons of other tough guys who pitched inside w no command, got shelled, and then got released.
