So many called strikes this weekend. Why??

Wild Hogg® · 2025-03-30T14:35:25.417Z

I have never seen so many called strikes against us as we had this weekend. I wonder if this was planned by the coaches or did the batters just become passive all of a sudden? Poor Paino & Cuifo looked like statues up there and Priest, after hitting a first-pitch home run earlier, took virtually every strike the rest of the game. Someone with inside info might help us here because it's beginning to look like Monteball or Leggittball again and I just wonder if they guys are being told to do this?

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Re: So many called strikes this weekend. Why??

Mar 30, 2025, 10:54 AM

I’m sorry but the approach is ANYTHING but MonteBall. Monte was all about home runs only. No small ball. Nothing wrong with Legget ball either. Small ball wins championships behind elite pitching. You’ve gotta be able to manufacture runs when facing elite shut down pitchers.

It’s all about quality at bats. They are being taught to work the pitcher. If everyone comes up there hacking at every pitch it makes it easy for an elite starter to last 8 innings with less than 100 pitches. If 2 of 3 batters can push the at bat to 10-12 pitches that shortens the outing and gets to the bullpen quicker. Which is exactly what you saw yesterday evening. Those were sub 2 ERA pitchers for Tech and our guys ran them out of the game by being selective.

I hate to admit it but the Georgia Tech announcers were all over it. Winning ball means moving your foul pole and taking at bats deep into pitch counts. Situational baseball wins championships. Monte Ball teams live and mostly die by the home run or lack thereof. We saw it against Vandy in the regionals. We couldn’t manufacture a run because those guys were trying to hit every pitch out of the yard.

If Bailey becomes dominant as a starter we’re set. That opens the door for Allen or Darden to be the day three starter aka series Enders. That’s the recipe to win it all. Go up two zero in a series and you have two games to slam three door. If our pitching can hold elite hitting two two to three runs we will win.