First pitch: 7 balls, 7 strikes First pitch result: taken for ball = 4, swinging strike = 10 (7 in-zone, 3 outside), called strike = 0 AB Results: 1/4 after taking first pitch, 3/10 after swinging at first pitch - 4/14 for series Notes: - In 3 straight series, opposing pitchers have thrown first pitch strikes precisely 50% of the time - Nice 1st pitch success early in game 2 of the series! Aggressiveness paid off in 2 consecutive ABs - Very aggressive early in counts through the series, swinging on 10 of 14 1st pitches - Thought: you only have one “cold” blue zone against RHP, bottom left...early in counts, consider any pitch in that area to be a ball, since the player isn’t really hitting many pitches in that location well for ya. Philly got you a few times with pitches low and in that you’d have done well to take. - Zone is cold high-in and low-in, same diff. Just cut off the inside third of the plate early in counts against lefties - Yes, that is totally what I was saying in game 1 lol...bahhhhhd - See ya in the comments tomorrow!
