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How To Make Hitters Make A Swing At Your Pitch With These 2 Tips

Today, I want to address how pitchers can easily and successfully get hitters to swing at their pitch.

"How Baseball Pitchers Can Tempt Hitters To Swing At Their Pitch"

Perhaps the most tempting pitch in baseball is an elevated fastball to a hitter who is behind in the count. Therefore, the key to tempting baseball hitters to hit your pitch is to 1) get ahead in the count and 2) elevate a good hard fastball (but make sure it’s up, out of the hitter’s swing path).

Experience has shown that if a pitcher is ahead in the count, a hitter is far more likely to swing at a high pitch than a low one, so put it there!

Fastball strikeouts usually happen with a hitter looking at a fastball on the corners of the plate or a hitter swinging at a fastball at the letters.

Yours in baseball,

Steven Ellis
The Complete Pitcher™
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Posted by Steven Ellis on May 22, 2005
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