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The importance of pitching inside and strike one
By LEE JUDGE The Kansas City Star
Updated: 2013-03-27T23:01:41Z
March 27
By LEE JUDGE
The Kansas City Star
Players usually have something they’re working on in spring training. Sometimes it’s just making the team. But if they’re already sure of being on the roster, it’s often something more specific. I asked closer Greg Holland what he had been working on this spring and he said, “Staying healthy.”
So far, so good.


Greg also has been working on throwing strike one — he said he hasn’t been so good at that — and pitching inside. Throwing strike one is a big deal because it puts the pitcher in the driver’s seat. When a pitcher is ahead in the count, he can throw any pitch he likes to any location he likes. And once the count moves to two strikes, the hitter has to expand his strike zone and cover any pitch in the zone and a few out of it. The hitter might not want to take a borderline pitch and count on the umpire’s eye.
If the pitcher throws ball one, he has some work to do if he’s ever going to get ahead in the count. When the pitcher falls behind in the count, he might have to limit his pitches to stuff he can throw for strikes (depending on the situation), and he can’t — or at least he shouldn’t — nibble at the edges of the zone. The hitter can zone down — shrink his zone — and get very selective. If he doesn’t like a pitch, the hitter can “spit on it” (baseball slang for refusing to swing).
Pitching inside is also a big deal. Holland said that when he gets beat it’s because he’s away, away, away. Pitchers like to pitch on the outer half of the plate — away — because it’s hard to hit a pitch on the outer half of the plate out of the park. Stay on the outer half and, unless the guy has unusual opposite-field power, he’s likely to stay in the park.


But continually pitch on the outer half — away, away, away — and hitters start to “dive.” They stride toward the outer half of the plate and now, as far as the hitter is concerned, that pitch on the outside corner is right down the middle. So Greg has to come inside — which might put a hitter on his backside — to demonstrate he’s not going to let hitters dive without paying a price.
Pay attention this summer. If Greg Holland — or any pitcher — is throwing strike one and pitching inside, good things should follow.



Este articulo es interesante pues el poder lanzar adentro hace par de cosas. Primero, como bien dice el articulo, si el lanzador "vive" en la mitad exterior del plato, el bateador empieza a reducir el area en la cual esta buscando la bola. O sea, puede ajustar su "swing" mejor y mas rapido y por ende conectar con mayor autoridad... Otra cosa, la bola afuera le permite al bateador extender sus brazos y accionar las munecas con mayor poder y pone mas al alcance la bola del "sweet spot" del bate. Si el lanzador tiene algo de "movimiento" en la recta, obliga al bateador a pegarle a la pelota con la parte menos amcha del bate. Si la pelota viene con movimieto (curva o slider), la capacidad de ajuste del bateador se limita mucho. Ese es parte del exito de Mariano Rivera cuyo "cutter" es devastador. Si estan adiestrando a sus hijos o sobrinos en el arte de lanzar, el lanzar afuera es mas comodo, pero para dominar al bateador y poseer el plato, hay que usar la zona de bateo completa y eso implica meter la bola adentro, pero no baja para evitar nuevamente que extienda los brazos. De otro modo el bateadro puede darse el lujo de esperar su bola y mandarla al estacionamiento.



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An important thing to note about pitching inside is that when hitting coaches teach hitting, they usually do not focus on teaching how to hit inside fastballs because they know that most pitchers cannot execute them. So, instead they tend to gear most of their effort towards teaching their hitters to hit pitches that are away. Almost all hitting coaches talk about getting extension and driving the ball from gap to gap; this is current baseball instruction and actually the correct coaching method used by most hitting coaches today. But now, knowing this, you should pitch inside just because it is the one pitch that most hitters neglect to focus on which then puts you the pitcher at a great advantage during the game.

Think about this, if you are facing Alex Rodriguez of the NYY or Manny Ramirez of the LAD and they know that you cannot pitch inside, they will cut the plate in half and simply look away every time waiting for their pitch, and you will have very little chance of getting them out. Remember, the plate you are throwing to is approximately the width of 7 baseballs. If you just throw to the outer half you are definitely not using the entire plate. Hitters absolutely love when pitchers do not pitch inside to them by not utilizing the full plate. That just means that they can lean out over the plate, get full extension, and be able to drive the baseball. As the opponent of a hitter, you never want to do something that they prefer, but rather something that makes them uneasy, so learn to pitch inside and discover how pitching inside can change your game.