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6/20/08

Switch Pitching Pat Venditte Faces Switch Hitting Batter

Shouldn't We Teach Everyone To Become A Switch Pitching Pitcher?

MLB, Pat Venditte

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This might be a lot for your mind to digest late on a Friday afternoon, but just try and follow this sequence above that occurred in a Single-A game last night.

Switch pitching Pat Venditte for the Yankees Single-A club, yes, switch pitching, faced off against a switch-hitting batter. Part hilarity and part traveshamockery ensues.

The batter attempts to counter Venditte's switching of arms by switching the side of the plate. The ambidextrous pitcher has a glove specially made so that he doesn't need to do the whole Jim Abbott routine, and can adjust on the fly. Turns out, once a better enters the box and declares his at-bat, he must stay there.

Anyways, it's enjoyable to stick with this clip until the end and watch how the crazy at-bat unfolds.

Somewhere Timmy Kurkjian was squealing last night.

Video(s): Switch Pitcher vs Switch Hitter [Bugs & Cranks]

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6/21/08

100%InjuryRate

1	He actually can switch gloves. Or glove. He has a special glove so he can switch hands at any time.

6/21/08

Gazzo

(Edited by Gazzo)

If it couldn't work at any level, then he never would have been drafted by a team on the HIGHEST level. In case you haven't noticed the Yankees have a pretty good player development staff, and I doubt they would waste time on some kid that could never make it. I'm shocked you don't know about this kid. When he got drafter 3 or 4 years ago it was all over ESPN. Then again it could have just been on the news here in NY.

6/21/08

Gazzo

1	The batter is a typical Met. Crybaby all the way to the end.

6/21/08

bobbyc3

1	Was anybody else hoping he'd get a fastball to the back on the first pitch?

6/22/08

Gazzo

0	Maybe thats the guy I was thinking of. Sorry for the miscue. Either way I don't see why this guy can't pitch in the bigs.

6/22/08

Gazzo

0	It will certainly be interesting to watch, that's for sure. Especially if he does make the Bigs. I'm sure in 1988 people were laughing at the Angels for drafting a pitcher with only one anatomically complete arm. And the Yankees were laughing at those naysayers on 9/4/1993. Hard.

6/22/08

Gazzo

0	(Edited by Gazzo) I wasn't making it as such. I was simply stating that people had the same sentiment towards him as you have towards Pat Venditte. There is a comparison, as it's a similar situation.

6/22/08

Gazzo

0	You're obviously missing the point.

6/22/08

Gazzo

0	Still missing it. Just stop dude. You're taking this somewhere that has nothing to do with what I'm saying.

6/22/08

Gazzo

0	You're not even talking about the same thing as me. You're taking this WAY to far.

6/22/08

Gazzo

0	Dude I just made a simple statement. It ended there. You're the one who went into a scientific expedition for no apparent reason. You can do alot of things to me, say alot of things about me, but don't sit there and tell blatant lies about me. I have NEVER said that I want Obama dead, and I would appreciate a retraction of that horribly incorrect statement.