Pitchers have been increasingly working to mess with the timing and rhythm of batters. At the MLB level, pitchers like Johnny Cueto and Nestor Cortes experiment with shimmying, rocking, and quick pitching to gain the upper hand.
At one level of baseball, a hitter is trying to figure out his own way to upset the pitcher’s timing before it happens to him.
A video went viral on Twitter of a Japanese high school baseball player who is not just a switch-hitter, but switches sides of the plate between each pitch. The Twitter account with the handle asahi_koshien posted a video with (if Twitter’s translation to English is correct) Ko Yamaguchi at the plate bouncing from batter’s box to batter’s box.
