Okay, so now that you recognize some weaknesses and you've read the batter, there's another option another part of the equation of another very great variation that you need to consider. And that is the game situation. So as the catcher calling the pitch, you have to evaluate the situation. So you have to get a quick read on the batter that that is up to bat as well as the game situation you have to make a decision what is most important at the time based on the score based on the outs and you have to pitch to that situation. So in other words, batters one through four, typically your strongest batters are going to make contact most often. So you probably want to pitch to the game situation based on whether or not there's runners on.

For instance, if you know the number one batter and let's just taste this this actual batting situation. For instance, this number one battery likes to go to the left side. So I'm almost thinking this is probably a slap hitter. All right, so they like to go the left side. So let's play to that side that she's typically going to, which is maybe her strength or at least her comfort zone. And it obviously shows statistically that she goes to that side.

So what we're going to do is we're going to play the game situation, there's probably a runner on first, maybe there's a runner on second. I'm going to pull my third baseman in and I'm going to pitch an outside pitch so I can get the third baseman to get it out at second. Now, if there were a few strikeouts in this area, and then you saw weakness of a pitch, then I would, I would try to jump in and try to get some strikes, but she's a contact hitter. She's putting the bat on the ball. Alright, so that's that situation. Let's look at a few other batters and maybe some situations based on this actual book from a game first in your first inning.

Basically all you're trying to do right here is get a read and see if you can find any weaknesses or pitches on a hitches in their swing on their setup, and know those weaknesses and note the pitches that you might you think that they're they have a weakness so if this number three batter typically the three and four pole hitters, they're going to be pulling it down the line then maybe their weaknesses the right side and I want to talk about this right here is I went through this actual game and I marked green, yellow and red. The Green means they pulled to the left side of the field, third base shortstop, or left field. The yellow is they went up the middle somewhere between the pit like the pitcher between the second short or in centerfield and the red is the right side. So you can see tendencies usually with people now.

If they're a decent hitter, they'll go with the pitch. So if there's an outside pitch, they'll go to the right side of the field if there's an inside pitch, so the left side of the field remember, that's when you want to disrupt that person with some Off speed. So let's just take for instance, this number three hitter. You can see that we're just jumping down to three, you can see that there's a lot of green, a little bit of yellow. So I would if I were the pitcher. This is for instance, I can see they're a pull hitter.

I would throw them an outside first strike, they're not going to swing it, they don't like outside strike. Okay, the next thing I would come with would be a changeup on the inside extreme inch inside. Now, why would I do it a change up for them. If they're a pool hitter, that changeup is going to be strike two, because they're going to crank that ball so far foul, that it's not even going to be in play. So this is generally what the statistics have shown me over the years. Sometimes, they put the ball in play, okay, but it's going to be on the left side and you know that so just adjust your field until your fields to be ready on left side.

Then I would come to some other outside strikes if I'm owed to. And here's one thing I want to reiterate, if your picture in your head, oh two or one to the next pitch should never be a hittable ball. So in other words, it's not like a strike on the outside, you're not good, you're not going to look for a third call to strike on a 212 pitch. If the batter doesn't swing at it, it should definitely be a ball but what you're trying to do is get them to fish for a ball that they can't hit. So let's just look at some other things here situations or tendencies. You can see that this person here down towards the bottom of the lineup has more right side and middle now.

I guess it my my orange was out of sync here. But they went up the middle to the right and to the right. So That person is behind on their swing. So for them, because they're behind on a swing straight, fast balls on the inside or you're going to be your strike. So I'll come with a low inside strike for first pitch, maybe a high rise ball for second pitch on the inside, and come outside. Try to get them fishing for an outside pitch, but they're going to be they're going to be behind any inside pitches, you do not generally, when you see this, when you see right side, right side, right side right side, you do not want to pitch these guys, the bottom of your lineup, the ones that are behind the ball, they do not get pitched a change up.

Okay, because they're going to be on a change up. The people at the top. It looks like our 123 they're all pulling the ball for the most part like this. Number four, put one to the right side and it could be because she's on the ball or Just going with the pitch and you can see there's a home run here. But these guys right here, you do not. You can throw these you can throw these the changeup, but you do not want to put that changeup anywhere close to the middle.

So make sure it is a low changeup, okay, you don't want to hide change up on the top of your order. So that is what a book looks like. And that's how to kind of evaluate and see what the weaknesses are and how to pitch within the game situation. I'm going to go over here to the right side, and we're going to go over this one as well just to get another example. Okay, so this example is actually great, because it's totally opposite of the previous example, almost totally opposite, but pretty good. And it's unusual.

So it's good to have like some versions to what is normal, so you can learn from it. But if what you know, take a look at this book, and I've highlighted again, what does what looks unusual to you Think in your mind. What hopefully you'll see is they all went to the right side. They went to the right side. And this whole little section here is to the right side. So this tells me that a couple things if I were to sit down and look at this book and not know anything about the team, which I don't know much about the team, I would say they are fast team and they have a bunch of punch hitters.

They will go with the outside pitch, maybe they aren't as quick on an inside fastball. That's where without looking at any of the batters, I would go. They don't obviously like to go to the left side of the field, at least not from what the looks of this is in. You want to try to play out the weaknesses that person right here goes pretty much every time to the left side. So that's the person I would throw the inside, change up to, in the outside pitches for strikes. Same as this person here.

Now you have the random little, you know, they went to the first baseman but could have been a way outside 1232 pitch and they were just poking at it. But what happened? They got out. So these other little punches here are all singles, doubles, is that a triple? So you can kind of see that there are tendencies so those if you just look at a book, and you evaluate the book, that's that's the valuation I would come up with the scouting report, I would come up with