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From: [email protected] (Sherri Nichols)
Subject: Re: OBP hurt by sac flies (was Re: HBP? BB? BIG-CAT?)
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (scott mclure) writes:
>Sorry, I gotta disagree here. Last time I played ball, I went up on
>several occasions intending to hit a fly ball deep enough to score the
>runner from third or advance a runner to third. It's relatively easy
>actually... you swing under the path of the ball you normally would to
>hit a good line drive. With fastballs it's very easy, much more
>difficult with good breaking balls. A good hitter with excellent bat
>control can voluntarily hit fly balls to the outfield at least, oh, 60%
>of the time? Maybe more..
There's a blurb in the STATS Scoreboard about this, and though I don't have
the book with me here, my memory is that the best at hitting sac flies were
far below this 60% number.
Sherri Nichols
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