Show Mustang League uses pitching machine b Baseballs Baseball's founding fathers received a jolt when a few years ago the American League replaced the pitcher with the designated hitter Charles Finley experimented with a designated runner Now baseball has the pitching machine VERNAL'S MUSTANG I League starting uses the pitching pitching pit pit- ching thing macl machine ne this year yearl According According According Ac Ac- cording to Ted Taylor the Uie machine can be adjusted to go from one mile an hour to onehundred onehundred onehundred one- one hundred miles an hour The machine can throw pitches right and left handed The machine can be adjusted to toss a looping curve ball sharp curve slider knuckle ball screwball and fastball Taylor said that there are five reasons for tor the use of the pitching pitching pit pit- ching thing machine First the machine has shortened the length of the ball game from two to three hours to just over an hour Two base on balls do donot dorot rot not happen often Before most of the scoring according to Taylor occurred due to base on balls The batter has to hit the ball baU to get on Third the hitter knows that he can hit the ball on every pitch litch and fourth 1 the fielder knows known that he will have to field the ball remarked Taylor TAYl TAYLOR OR SAID that the final reason for the pitching machine is La a study of baseball players players' under the age of 14 in Los Angeles Angelas The study revealed that 92 percent of the pitchers mainly in the 9 10 year old bracket and as sorrie some as high as 14 years old had received elbow destruction Taylor said that one of the reasons for the elbow destruction was that young pitchers are not ready for the whipping action performed on the elbow by pitching Very few people are are against it Taylor said that the pitching pitching pitching pit pit- ching machine is one of the finest things that has happened in the local baseball program |