re: UK Baseball & the HBP

I was a catcher, 17 year old had a pitcher every fast hard thrower buy wild as the sky.
I told him to throw the first pitch over the backstop, he looked at me like I was crazy.

Told the batter watch out he is crazy wild, well he threw the ball clear over the backstop.
I had these batters swinging at anything just yo about being hit.

I did tell him not to hot a batter as he would have killed them