RESEARCH: Seeking impact hitters? Look the other way!
May 26 2016
Who doesn’t appreciate the majestic flight of a towering home run pulled deep into the upper deck? Turn on a sports highlight show during virtually any summer night and we are bound to come across an analyst lauding the slugger who mashed it. But what do we hear when watching a game and the hitter drives a pitch on the outer part of the plate into the opposite field—“the other way”—for a hit? The color analyst inevitably tells us, “That’s a nice piece of hitting…”
Think of many of the greatest hitters in recent times. One thing they have all had in common was both the ability and the will to hit the ball where it is pitched. Not only have they been able to turn on the inside pitch, but also to handle a pitch over the outer part of the...
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