Today I define 3 terms often heard and not understood by baseball players, parents and beginning coaches.
Question: What exactly is pepper?
Answer: pepper -- Pepper is a common pre-game exercise where one player bunts brisk grounders and line drives to a group of fielders who are standing about 20 feet away. The fielders try to throw it back as quickly as possible. The batter hits the return throw. (Some ballparks ban pepper games because wild pitches could land in the stands and injure spectators).
Question: What is the Mendoza line?
Answer: Mendoza line -- A batting average of around .200.
Question: What is a Baltimore chop?
Answer: Baltimore chop -- A ground ball that hits in front of home plate (or off of it) and takes a large hop over the infielder's head.
Have a great day. Til next time, Nick
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Have a great day, Nick