[personal] [Husker] Baseball

[Skylar Dodds]

Hello Husker Fans,

The reason I say his control wasn't great was not because of the
number of walks.  It has more to do with pitching behind the count for
a good part of the night.  Walks or not, a 2-0 or 3-1 pitch is a TON
easier to hit than a 0-2 or 1-2...

Most college/pro coaches will harp and harp and harp on the first
pitch strike.  (My college coach was a little more lenient and would
settle for a second pitch strike).

He was ahead of 13 batters and behind 12 and even with the rest (most
of times he was ahead came in the three inning stretch where he really
dominated).  Maybe a better way to say it would be, "He got behind a
lot early".

Most coaches I've had want you to be ahead of about 70-80% of the
batters. He threw 125 pitches, 83 were strikes (66.4%). Again, a
little lower than most coaches would like.

I'm not trying to take away anything from Joba, like I said, it was
his first really good performance in a while.



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 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net

TL> His control wasn't great tonight.

TL>  How can you say this. Twelve strikeouts and only two base on balls with eight hits in 7.1  innings. sounds like he had his stuff last night.



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