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Posted: November 17, 2008 at 10:01 AM | 13 comment(s)
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But how many times when hitting to the right side, does the hitter hit into a double play? If you try to hit to the right side, does it lower your On base chances?
Hitting to the right side, except on hit and run attempts, is pretty exclusively a runner on second nobody out strategy, so the DP is not an issue. If it occurs with a runner on first, it probably wasn't intentional.
I disagree. When I played, I often tried to go to the right side with a runner on first. With the second baseman cheating toward second for the double play and the first baseman playing on the bag to hold the runner, it left a big gap that was damn hard to resist if they gave me a pitch on the outside corner.
I've never heard of anyone in MLB doing that. If a big leaguer had that kind of ability to direct the ball, rather than the generic "right side of the infield," he ought to be able to hit .450.
Derek Jeter? He is one player who is notable for hitting toward RF (even perfecting the inside-out swing). Whether that's a tactic he developed to specifically take advantage of the 2nd-base hole is debatable.
Joe Garagiola (quoted from memory, but you get the gist)
They're just doing a promo for their station.
Another thing announcers praise excessively is the hit and run and how it keeps teams out of a DP. But they never mention that sometimes it forces a batter to swing at a pitch (to protect the runner) he otherwise might not have. IOW, it sometimes creates an out that might not have happened.
Baggypants Moskowitz must talk up this "ABC baseball" about 2-3 times a game (especially when the Yanks are losing by a run or two and have left men on base)...it got so bad last year that even plank-headed Michael Kay started saying it.
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