When is an individual pitch a GREAT pitch?
Baseball observers have an intuitive sense of the critical confrontations between a pitcher and a batter where the pitcher emerges victorious. Some of those confrontations are capitalizable:
- the pitcher blows the batter away with high heat (The Papelbon)
- the pitcher breaks the batter's bat with a double play grounder (The Rivera)
- the pitcher dodges the bat with a splitter (The Koji)
When is a pitch identifiably great?
Baseball observers have an intuitive sense of the critical confrontations between a pitcher and a batter where the pitcher emerges victorious. Some of those confrontations are capitalizable:
- the pitcher blows the batter away with high heat (The Papelbon)
- the pitcher breaks the batter's bat with a double play grounder (The Rivera)
- the pitcher dodges the bat with a splitter (The Koji)
When is a pitch identifiably great?