Who's the hardest pitcher you faced so far?
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This goes for both online and offline players.
For me, it's Captain Kodai Senga.
I faced him several times on BR, Events, and Ranked. He is difficult to pick up, read, and react to.I faced a guy today. He had Senga and I had Burnes. Now, Burnes had a no hitter through 6. "He's my top pitcher online."
Anyway, I had 2 hits through 6 against Senga.
The man throws 99 with a low 80's Forkball.
As a hitter, I go into the at bat trying to predict what and where my opponent will throw. Then react if I'm wrong. I'm usually pretty successful.
Today, my man had me fooled. I rarely ever strike out more than 3-4 times a game. He embarrassingly k'ed me 10 times through 6.
Anyway, I was up 2-0, and Buxton was up. I said, I'm only looking for a forkball low. He throws it 35% of the time. First 2 pitches were high FB, then here comes the low stroke Fork. I mashed that shyte for a 475 foot nuke! Then he took him out.
When he took Senga out, I clapped, cheered, and breathed a sigh of relief.Then I proceeded to mash Dominguez and Bummer for 6 more runs.
So who do ya'll struggle against? And how happy does it make you feel when u finally get to the pitcher causing your opponent to finally take them out?
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H2H? Senga for the reasons you mentioned. His delivery/release point is just tough to pick up
Couple that with a good pitch mix, if your opponent knows how to pitch you’ll really have to lock in to get hits/runs
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Senga or Randy Johnson. Other than that no one else for starters. I’ve started to just take away the forkball on concentrate on that.
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It's good to hear I'm not the only one who has trouble with Senga. The only other starter I have issues with is John Donaldson. But mainly against lefty lefty.
