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Hondo

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  1. Pitch 2 was usually the changeup. They were watching the 1st pitch belt high breaking ball and then swinging for the fences at what they thought was a fastball on pitch 2. Then he'd show the fast ball out of the zone (usually outside) and strike them out with another changeup. The changeup was the only pitch he had that was any good (and it was absolutely nasty). Everything else was to set up the change. And we fell for it inning after inning after inning. O'Dowd and Daly were the only 2 who consistently had the right approach (probably because they aren't power hitters who look for fastballs to begin with). Everyone else acted like they were facing Paul Skenes and looking to hit fastballs, only to be fooled by the changeup. It was maddening to watch. Zero adjustments made and we lost the game because of it. Nothing he threw was unhittable if they would have just treated him like the pitcher he is instead of looking for fastballs.
  2. Played at a competing school, but grew up loving Texas baseball and am a UT alumnus. Created an account tonight so I could comment on what I was seeing. My bad. Threw off the mojo.
  3. "The strength of this team is the team."
  4. Tanner Witt for a 150 pitch CG tomorrow.
  5. I want to see him vs. LSU. They'll tattoo his ass. His *stuff* is not unhittable. It's just unhittable with our approach.
  6. Can't be the long ball hero taking pitches. Gotta swing for the fences at fastballs that turn out to actually be changeups so we can win 20-0 in game 2!
  7. With a 5 run lead, no need to change anything. Just keep throwing the breaking ball/change up combo. We may get a few singles, but not enough to get 6 runs.
  8. Gonna laugh my ass off if we finally decide to change our approach and that fucker comes out pumping 92mph flat fast balls for strikes.
  9. Normally, I'd say Stanford shouldn't push their luck and run him out for the 9th - because, you know, we've seen him 4 fucking times and won't be fooled by the pitch sequence... But hell, we waited 7 innings to do anything other than look for fastballs and whiff at changeups. Why not put him back out there?
  10. Don't get better than the 1st and 3rd strike.
  11. FB up for a ball. Changeup or hook coming.
  12. 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.
  13. Swung through a FB. Ok. Changeup coming.
  14. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker. Followed by the changeup. Shocker.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt (knees). Shocker.
  19. O'Dowd has had the best approach all night. Hit it right at him, but sat on the hook.
  20. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  21. 1st pitch breaking ball at the belt. Shocker.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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