re: What a piss poor effort

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I’ve never seen a more idiotic and retarted approach at the plate. Our innings lasted about 3-5 minutes at the plate and not once was an adjustment made. Did CPM have a show he wanted to catch back at home? Was there a BBQ he needed to get to? First pitch take down the pipe second and third pitch swing nomatter where it’s pitched over and over and over again. That was about as piss poor an effort as I’ve ever seen on a baseball diamond.

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For the most part I agree.

And this is not unusual for a CPM coached team against good pitching. Seldom swing at the obligatory first pitch fastball that is often thrown. Often get down 0-2 or 1-2 into pitcher's counts where average hitters (our whole lineup during much of his tenure) finds it difficult (as does everyone) to hit for average or power. Then we wonder why we aren't producing enough runs against the good pitching staffs. IMO it has much to do with approach. Oh, yea. That and not running ourselves out of innings by trying to hit & run all the time. I don't understand when you have a good pitching staff and defense with playing small ball and trying to get at least one run every time you get a man on base with 1 out or less. Bunt him over into scoring position and be happy with a single run instead of waiting for the big hit that often never comes and instead getting a goose egg.
I know that CPM has a Natty but I wonder if that might be 2 or 3 if we would have played small ball a little more often when out hitting wasn't so good. Like this year.