Lance Lynn turns Mike Trout into a bad hitter, a breakdown 

Yeah I truly don't understand how he wasn't hitting those, it makes no sense

@@andrewmorrisondesign I can see that he is swinging underneath all of them, but I don't know why.

@@viperdude281 Exactly. Only thing I can think of is maybe Lance Lynn's fastball release point is lower than most? So it fools Trout that way? Anyone's guess lol

Can anyone fill us in om why he is missing those fastballs? It's not like 96 mph is ungodly lol

Lynn spins his fastball really well. That's why it has the jumping effect at the end of its flight path and why Trout swings under it, because he instinctively expects it to drop more than it does.

What’s fascinating about Lynn is that his speed isn’t even that fast. He’s mid-90s. You’d think to get away with throwing that many fastballs, he’d have to be like Aroldis Chapman in his pitch speed, but no.

Lynn proves that keeping things simple is the best approach. Too many pitching coaches seem to just make things complicated for their pitchers just to prove their worth.

@@yankobb where the hell are you getting your information

You can see the control he has. That has to be the difference. The FB down the middle on the first pitch and then the ability to place it just a bit up and away or up and in makes the pitch look so similar to the batter then they swing under it. Batting is hard enough but when you get a pitcher that has control like that it looks next to impossible to hit the damn ball.

@@kingponto1295 location and movement. It’s not a clothesline fastball. Whatever grip he’s got going on there it sure as hell jumps around

oh so that’s why Freddie freeman won the MVP

I’m surprised he’s so good considering his initials are L L. So many Ls

@@rjws69 They cancel each other out to make a w

@@arnav9192 Big brain

He the comic book main character, he gotta be with that name.

Print that on a tee shirt, I'm in. XLT if you please!

Yeah this comment had me lol.

I chuckled pretty hard at this point in the video

Not hits, he makes contact which includes foul balls. Still impressive though

Not what that stat means. It’s 86 percent of the ones he swings at in the zone. There are still those that are just strikes through and through with no swing that do not get counted in this statistic

Not really.

@@donnycooper8719 hitting means making contact. If I hit you in the face it means the same as me making contact with your face.

@@donnycooper8719 we know lol he was saying he “hits the ball” not “gets hits”

My recommendation for new people getting into the sport, choose a team to root for. Don't just watch random matches

@@samuelperez5211 well my dads is a Phillies fan so I’ll just go with watching them, he also isn’t really into baseball

@@Thriftyknight just don’t pick the astros

@@lqj4376 I’m officially a astros fan

@@lqj4376 jk

@kimmy Snyder Dude what a coincidence! My grandma's Husband's boyfriend played on the same team as his father! And knew Lance.

@@robloxcodes3672 I think we might be cousins

What a random fact at the end lmao

Wow! Small world. My wife’s boyfriend is good friends with lance.

Crazy! My barber cuts his mother’s hair!

😂😂😂😂😂

😂 perfect analogy. Well done sir!

That’s me. My friend got so mad in some fighting game he had. He knew all the combos. I spammed A. He was screaming.

😂

Wowwwwww

As a Cardinals fan, I can tell you: that is the Lance Lynn Story.

As a Twins fan, watching him dominate the playoff teams in 2018 was fun but then I remember when he threw over 30 pitches and gave up a grand slam against the Pirates

Usually wife / kids have it.

It’s like Ji-man Choi lighting up Gerrit Cole.

Lynn's been doing this now for years, one of the few guys who just beats people with fastballs...I have a feeling it's extremely heavy too; when catching it... I love the way he utilizes it.

@@griffindubois4359 Perfect example! I cannot wrap my head around that matchup.

Thats why I use a burner phone

You mean yerminator

YERMINATOR

@@judahpaul446 this is the best thing I’ve heard today

Jomboy still researching on how to pronounce his name

Bro 😎 picked him in fantasy and he is doing amazing he has 20 points already and he’s play like 3 games

why is trout missing these? Is there something special about the pitches or what?

@@tasmayshah5539 My guess is the fastball pitches all look very similar, and Lynn is scary good at placing the ball where he wants in the strike zone. He starts with a fastball right in the middle in each at-bat, them follows a little up or in. The pitches look so similar that Trout places the bat where the ball was last pitch and misses under. Every time.

aka the "Fustball".

Lol "Fuck you, you hit it...."

I check the comments just to find someone else appreciation for the term "F U fastballs."

Go dodgers

Go dodgers

Dodgers fans being annoying as usual I see...

@@jacobflowers0529 Go dodgers

@@jacobflowers0529 I'm surprised Dodgers fans have the intelligence to type something in the comments. They must be evolving. Go Angels.

Must have phenomenal backspin.

yeah the backspin on his pitches is insane

Exactly.

@@TheOtherBradBird does the backspin make it go up?

I watched him as an Ole Miss Rebel. He has done really well for himself since then.

Ding ding! There are virtually zero holes in Trout's game, but Lynn set him up by pounding the zone, and then jammed him with the cutter up & in. Notice Trout never chased low & away.

i dont watch lance much but he can put his fast ball anywhere in the zone, great plate coverage

Lance Lynn and Marco Gonzales

@@jezza_fat Does Marco shut him down too? I'm an M's fan and I didn't even realize that. Just vividly remember Paxton striking Trout out four times on his birthday a few years back. He has always dominated him

@@griffincooper9534 yeah Lynn and Marco are the angels kryptonite lol

Hes the reason why saint louis went to the world series. Hes an inning eater and when your 3rd best pitch can eat up over a 180 innings and win over 15 games you make the playoffs. And his playoff record is amazing. I expect to see the white Sox go to the world series and he will be the top reason why. It's why larosa got him. He knows what Lynn can do for a team.

And then the Cards let him go. As well as the current aces for Miami and Seattle. STL resident here. Ugh. Nice to see Grichuk having a nice start.

@@chrisweidner4768 He was let go following TJ surgery. The Cardinals didn't think he would get them much more (plus Lilliquist was busy ruining Martinez, Wacha, and Rosenthal). Going elsewhere was likely the best thing for him at the time.

@@chrisweidner4768 yeah our players we made are pretty much on every team in the league almost. How many out fielder that came up in our farm system are starters on other teams. Like five I think.

@@thecynic807 Happy for Grichuk. 2 hits again tonight. Now hitting .500. I know he didn't come up with us. Just wish we hadn't let him go.

No, we were up three games to one on the giants when he air mailed the ball into center feild and ended that game and we never recovered. He made a curse for us that wont go away for a long time.

@@Jeff-mn1uq and yet he has a championship ring... as a Cardinal. What a curse! Lol

White Sox have a core of some mean hombres. I love that about baseball KC and the Blue Jays and The Padres like teams like this.

I watched most of that series and still cannot figure out how the White Sox lost three out of four.

@@samismith8752 defense mainly. Today was defense, offense, and pitching.

@@MeToo-py1tq it's gonna be a lot better once this group gels together! As you can see by today we are still going through the motions.

I was looking for someone else who was saying this, some of those pitches had some crazy movement

His ball has upward movement. Trout misses under and fouls up. Also his pop up numbers are well above average too.

@@mchenryjeremy I mean, you’re not wrong, but the ball doesn’t move up. It’s just hanging up longer cause LLs spin rate must be godly.

Brilliant decision to pull DeGrom after 6 and 77 pitches. They could have let him throw the 7th and then pull him and let the bullpen blow the lead then. Wait... that’s still an L... damnit!

Mets lose again what a suprise trade degrom to a good team

@@wdmcgaheeii Ikr he's last pitch was 100 to strike Bryce Harper out and Rojas said he is fading lmao.

10-4 against the Nats, September 3rd 2019 🤣

@@Blackout.1644 lol ik I was mad I’m a Mets fan. It’s a struggle

Probably looks different on the plate

Yeah but Lynn was throwing pretty much spot on in the entire strike zone at will...not gonna be easy to locate 90+ mph fastballs that are served all over the box.

haha

And I whill. 👍

Cardinals gave up on him too early, same with Joe Kelly

Why? Did you not pay attention the last few years

better than you

@@faroukm4148 whilst a little harsh, you’re not incorrect. There’s not anyone on the planet on the planet he’s not better than

@@jd0192 True

This aged poorly :(