I was wanting to hit some baseballs for the last few days, so I stopped by the batting cages at Grand Slam, my home park, after work. I bought the usual 6 tokens for $8 which is 96 balls. I stepped into the medium pitch cage. I was feeling it. Everything was pulled and sometimes I was hitting it off the end of the bat. But I was feeling it. Hitting line drives from both sides of the plate. Nice.

So I saved a token for the fast pitch cage.

Nothing but swinging strikes. I did have three foul tips, but I could barely lay a bat onto the ball. I saw the ball exit the pitching machine, watched it zoom towards the plate, but I was swinging at air. My timing was all wrong stuck on the medium pitch and barely fast enough to catch up to the fast.

It wasn't as bad as when I moved from the slow cage to the medium. My first time in the medium I didn't even see the ball. I was just swinging blindly. This time, I was really late. Maybe if I'd had the lowered the pitches so that they were low strikes then I would've done better. Maybe. But it will be fun to try the fast pitch cage again. 80+ mph. Don't get scared of the ball.

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