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Originally Posted by mrbill
Conventional wisdom certainly says its easier to hit a pitcher the 2nd time a batter sees him in a game.
Can no statistics be found to support/debunk this claim?
We need the Mythbusters!
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It's not about if the batter would have it easier the second time. It's about how is that correllated to the pitches. It is easy to just give pitchers a rating that would reflect how they would handle hitters the second time or third time around, but it's not easy to tie that to their pitches.