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  1. Hondo
    FB up for a ball. Changeup or hook coming.
  2. Hondo
    That was the pitch, GG.
  3. Hondo
    THAT is how you hit this guy. Fuck the fastball. If he throws it for a strike, you fight it off. Sit on the off speed.
  4. Hondo
    Swung through a FB. Ok. Changeup coming.
  5. Hondo
    1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker. Followed by the changeup. Shocker.
  6. Hondo
    I'd say touche' if the game was over and we were talking about what they should have done. I've been calling this shit since the 2nd inning. Granted, I've played some ball (albeit a couple of decades ago)...but I'm no savant. It's THAT obvious.
  7. Hondo
    Nah, high 90's...and you fight it off to get to the next pitch. He's thrown very few fastballs and most of them have been out of the zone. Or you can just keep doing what we've done and fan at changeups all night and watch meat breaking balls.
  8. Hondo
    Go back and watch from the 2nd time through the lineup when I mentioned he would still pitch backwards, but lead with the breaking ball...and then tally up how many 1st pitch breaking balls he threw. Also tally up how many were 1st pitch breaking balls followed by a 2nd pitch changeup. I'll wait.
  9. Hondo
    What do you know...
  10. Hondo
    1st pitch breaking ball at the belt (knees). Shocker.
  11. Hondo
    O'Dowd has had the best approach all night. Hit it right at him, but sat on the hook.
  12. Hondo
    1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  13. Hondo
    1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  14. Hondo
    No. Absolutely wrong, with the exception of the pitcher having a dominating fastball. This guy's is 92-93 and straight as a fucking arrow...no movement. You can fight that off all day and sit on the other shit.
  15. Hondo
    When you know you're not going to get many (if any) fastballs for strikes and the guy has a good change up, you basically go up there with the approach of "count to 1, then swing opposite field." It's the only way to force you to let the ball travel. It also gives you a chance to see the bottom fall out of the change up and you can check/lay off. As it is, they're up there with fastball timing and they're committing before the changeup dumps. On the breaking ball, they see spin and they're just looping their swing to keep the bat in the zone, hopefully long enough to make contact. Result - weak pull ground ball. Think opposite field and they'll barrel them up with some stank on it. You don't beat pitchers like him with home runs (and the ball ain't carrying tonight anyway). You beat them with single after single after single. And you fucking run - stealing on those changeups in the dirt and hit-and-run on the others.
  16. Hondo
    They're NOT doing it, and not because it's not easy. They're just not. That's why it's so fucking maddening.
  17. Hondo
    There's the FB. Setting up the...
  18. Hondo
    1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  19. Hondo
    1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  20. Hondo
    1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  21. Hondo
    This goofy bastard KNOWS he doesn't have a fastball that can beat anybody, so he's only going to throw it occasionally to setup that badass changeup. WHY are are even looking for it? We should be teeing off on his off speed stuff, specifically the breaking pitch. The bottom falls out of the changeup, so I wouldn't even swing at that unless it started chest high. Basically, look for spin and pound it opposite field. I'm sick of fucking typing it. We should have about 15 hits that all look just like Daly's long single in the gap (or the mirror image for our lefties). No "playing for tomorrow." It's a 3 run game and we should be hammering this pencil-necked fuck.
  22. Hondo
    3 batters, three absolutely meat first pitch breaking balls. Followed by another or a changeup. Threw 2 fastballs in the inning and those were to set up the change up. PP laid off those, then was looking for the FB in (can't blame him) and got a front door breaking ball. If they'll fucking sit on the offspeed and look to go opposite field, they'll be able to handle anything he throws. The only contact they're making with his offspeed stuff is weak pull ground balls because they're WAY early and just dragging the bat through the zone.
  23. Hondo
    Changeup down coming.
  24. Hondo
    And...led PP off with...a...high breaking ball.
  25. Hondo
    Sit on the MF-ing breaking ball and changeup. The ONLY swing at a fastball is to foul it off and get to the next pitch. For fuck's sake, it's not that hard.

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