Taking a walk in softball

[JCShutout]

I'd be annoyed too Wart.

Sometimes my buddies and I play whiffleball. No walks, no HBP. You strikeout or you hit it.

[cardinalkarp]

I'd be annoyed too Wart.

Sometimes my buddies and I play whiffleball. No walks, no HBP. You strikeout or you hit it.

So what do you do just take pitches until you get a meatball?

[wart57]

I'd be annoyed too Wart.

Sometimes my buddies and I play whiffleball. No walks, no HBP. You strikeout or you hit it.

So what do you do just take pitches until you get a meatball?

Or strike out, if you take a pitch that is a strik, it is a strike, if it is the rules I understand......

[cardinalkarp]

I'd be annoyed too Wart.

Sometimes my buddies and I play whiffleball. No walks, no HBP. You strikeout or you hit it.

So what do you do just take pitches until you get a meatball?

Or strike out, if you take a pitch that is a strik, it is a strike, if it is the rules I understand......

Advantage pitcher. I would just sit there and try to throw nasty curveballs trying to hit the corner everytime if I don't have to worry about a walk.

[BenNX74205]

I fall generally into the "take a swing camp." When we play IM softball here at school, I generally don't swing until the ump calls a strike my first time up. Because I know I am not gonna strike out swinging, and if the pitcher is up there expecting first pitch swings from everyone, he's not gonna be close. After my first at-bat, I may work the count if the situation is correct (lead-off), but usually I swing away the first pitch since they remember me as "one of those dern walky guys." If it's close, I'm swinging at that point.

But I also play in a co-ed league at school. This league makes me work very hard to take a walk. The batting order is required to alternate guy-girl all the way through. Aside from the girls on our team not being the best hitters (good fielders, though), the rules state that if a guy is walked, the girl who is next up automatically walks as well. And until they invent the base hit that gets the next hitter on base at the same time, I will continue to look to walk in those leagues. Sure, I take some heat, but if I can lead off a game and have runners on 1st and 2nd, no outs, and all I have to do is walk, I'm doing it.

I don't always walk in that league, though--I take my cuts. But I'm more aware of the strike zone and the situation because of the added bonus.

[JCShutout]

I'd be annoyed too Wart.

Sometimes my buddies and I play whiffleball. No walks, no HBP. You strikeout or you hit it.

So what do you do just take pitches until you get a meatball?

Or strike out, if you take a pitch that is a strik, it is a strike, if it is the rules I understand......

Advantage pitcher. I would just sit there and try to throw nasty curveballs trying to hit the corner everytime if I don't have to worry about a walk.

Pretty much. I have a nice over hand curve to go with... well, whatever you call the pitch where I flick my (right) wrist to the left. That's my best pitch. Starts out almost behind you and ends up on the inside corner. (for righties) Yup, I bean a lot of guys when my curve doesn't move inside. But no bases on balls or HBP.

I supplement with high heat (rising pitch, neck high) to throw batters off. I usually get about 4 innings in before they start making contact. Hitters will eventually back way off the plate, which is when I aim just a bit outside. Eventually they figure me out by about the 6th or 7th.

We set up a target behind the plate. (sometimes just a chair) If the ball hits the target on a fly, (hits an appropriate spot on the chair) its a strike.

I just need to learn a curve that will start way outside on righties before coming back over the plate last minute.

[cardinalkarp]

I've got a nasty curve/slider that for a righty is almost impossible to hit if I can hit the outside corner. It probably breaks 3 ft w/ in the last 5 feet of the plate (that makes it equally as hard on lefties).

I also throw a pitch that sinks really well also.

I don't even bother w/ a straight fastball, those get hammered. I throw the other two hard enough.

[Cronos]

I just need to learn a curve that will start way outside on righties before coming back over the plate last minute.

Unless you're left-handed, good luck.

[cardinalkarp]

I just need to learn a curve that will start way outside on righties before coming back over the plate last minute.

Unless you're left-handed, good luck.

I forgot to mention that I'm a lefty


edit : if you have any questions ask Fat Bulldog, he's my wiffleball whipping boy

[wart57]

Man I miss wiffle ball.....