Attacking the zone
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When playing online and pitching do you attack the zone? I know some players will throw a bunch of junk pitches to see if the batter will chase and then go from there. How do you attack the players that aren't such free swingers though? Will you pitch the edges and see if they'll bite or will you continue to dupe them into swinging at junk still? Do you challenge them even more in the zone? I think my problem is I pitch in the zone too often and the batters realize a strike or [censored] near a strike is coming and they are always prepared to take good swings. So basically I would say 80-90% of my pitches are in the zone or close to it. Should I be in the 50% range or is that to low?
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I go straight for the throat, personally, and I get away with it around rank 500-600. I try each inning for an immaculate inning. I never waste a pitch. Every pitch I throw is designed to make my opponent look like a NOOB.
When I make division series though, it bites me in the [censored] and I get smacked back down to all-star. I think the proper strategy is to force your opponent to take, at least a little. It'll slow his bat down on the hittable strikes, at least a little. I've yet to have the discipline to really try it, but it seems to work against me pretty well.
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First batter I'll usually attack the zone and see how aggressive they are. If they are the type of player who swings at everything then I'll hardly ever throw something in the zone. No reason to give them something hittable if they're gonna swing no matter where you throw it. If they're patient then I'll be more aggressive and try to get ahead in the count so I can get them to chase with 2 strikes. I love dotting back door cutters against patient players cause they'll usually take it for a strike.
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I mean, you kind have to find out what your opponent will chase, and what they can hit. I try to keep those insights in my back pocket for full counts and big matchups.
Also, is first base open? How many outs? Who is hitting?
The cards in the meta now are SO good that even bad swings can hurt you, so, yeah.
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@sauciestburrito_psn said in Attacking the zone:
First batter I'll usually attack the zone and see how aggressive they are. If they are the type of player who swings at everything then I'll hardly ever throw something in the zone. No reason to give them something hittable if they're gonna swing no matter where you throw it. If they're patient then I'll be more aggressive and try to get ahead in the count so I can get them to chase with 2 strikes. I love dotting back door cutters against patient players cause they'll usually take it for a strike.
I'm glad that you're a rare breed. I'm 0 for my lifetime on backdoor cutters. A backwards K every single time. It's a huge weakness but almost no one actually seems to exploit it.
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@sauciestburrito_psn said in Attacking the zone:
First batter I'll usually attack the zone and see how aggressive they are. If they are the type of player who swings at everything then I'll hardly ever throw something in the zone. No reason to give them something hittable if they're gonna swing no matter where you throw it. If they're patient then I'll be more aggressive and try to get ahead in the count so I can get them to chase with 2 strikes. I love dotting back door cutters against patient players cause they'll usually take it for a strike.
Back door cutter is Logan Webb he is great with those
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I just try and throw hard pitches to square up because if they’re a good player they won’t go out the zone much until two strike counts
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