tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11923437.post1817736107344771615..comments2007-04-04T22:15:10.356-04:00dakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02768386460112735397noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11923437.post-50577917013635633932007-04-04T22:15:10.356-04:002007-04-04T22:15:10.356-04:00A good breakdown from Josh:<BR/><BR/><B>MLB Gameday allows you to look at the pitch by pitch at bats from previous games. Go load up the Red Sox and Royals from Monday April 2nd and look at the J.D. Drew at bat in question.<BR/><BR/>Pitch 1: Waist high, off the side of the plate. Ball.<BR/>Pitch 2: Same location, farther outside. Ball. 2-0.<BR/>Pitch 3: Just off the middle of the plate, slight lower than first two<BR/>pitches. Called strike. This is obviously the pitch Drew was supposed to hit, However, Gameday doesn't tell us what type of pitch this was. It could have been a well placed ball that fooled Drew. <BR/>Pitch 4: Well low, another Ball.<BR/>Pitch 5: Outside, just below the location of Pitches 1 and 2.<BR/><BR/>So which one of these pitches was J.D. Drew suppose to swing at? And how does having a 2-2 or 3-2 count improve a batter's chances more than actually being on first base? Obviously Drew should have foreseen that Lowell would strike out on the next at bat and that attempting to get one run from Ortiz on base would be better than letting Lowell attempting to get two with multiple runners on base (since this was the 9th inning of a tie game, after all.... what? It was the first? Oh, never mind).</B>Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12399868922850358920noreply@blogger.com