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Old 06-04-2009, 06:06 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Mt Fire Fighter View Post
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As for r/l splits, they are how a LH(lefthand) batter or a RH(righthanded) batters hit against right or left handed pitchers. On offense the advantage goes to a batter that hits opposite from the pitcher, LH batter does better against RH pitcher and vice versa. The picher gets the advantage against a batter that hits from the same side.

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I thought I'd point out how I remember the above. So Pitchers prefer Same handed batters and Batters prefer Different handed pitchers. B comes before P in the alphabet just like D comes before S. So, B and D go together like P and S go together.
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