"No, how can this be a strike?" In the era of reverse framing, the batter's mind is full
Jul 15, 2024
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ABS, robot referee introduced ahead of this season. He is leading the KBO League revolution.
There's a lot of talk and a lot of trouble, but the reaction to the first season isn't bad.
People in the field generally acknowledge the consistency, although there are many people in the field who say, "'The zone is different for each field, if you come in the corner, you can't hit it.'"
There is also a positive evaluation that the stress of changing the zone depending on the referee and the game situation is reduced, so you can only focus on the game.
There was something that was predicted during the ABS test before the season.
'The position of the port is not important. In the end, the path through which the ball passes is important is a warning sign.
For example, when a large curve of a drop passes through the ABS zone from top to bottom, even if the catcher mitt is on the ground, he can make a strike decision if he passes the zone.
When a person makes a judgment, it was common to set the strike/ball judgment criteria as the catcher's last port position.
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Framing refers to the act of moving the mitt so that the catcher can be judged in an advantageous way.
It's an eye trick, it's a technique. It was something that could work only when a person judges, but the machine doesn't budge on the framing.
But in baseball, framing may be hard to disappear.
Recently, the groundbreaking idea of 'reverse framing' has been talked about as a joke in the field. Let's grab the ball roughly enough to make it look too much like a ball to shake the batter's mind. It is the opposite concept of conventional framing in which the mitt is forced into the strike zone to turn the ball into a strike.
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First, the game between Gwangju KIA Tigers and SSG Landers.
It was a match between KIA Na Sung-bum and SSG Elias in the sixth inning. With the ball count of 1B2S, SSG catcher Kim Min-sik demanded a body ball, but Elias' ball fell low outside. Kim Min-sik barely caught the ball in a hurry, and Mitt almost fell to the floor, but the decision was a strikeout. Na Sung-beom complained to the referee as if he were dumbfounded.
The Doosan Bears-Samsung Lions match held in Jamsil on the same day was similar.
In the 1S situation, Samsung starter Lee Seung-hyun's fastball went low outside Doosan's Jung Soo-bin.
Samsung catcher Kang Min-ho, who had a high posture to keep Cho in check, had no choice but to sink to the floor because he caught a low ball. But this is also a strike. Jung Soo-bin also made a deep exclamation with an absurd expression like Na Sung-beom.
This is because if it was last year, it was an effort to be judged to be a ball.
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It's the so-called 'reverse framing'. It's not just a complete joke.
It means that while being judged a strike, at one point, you can shake the mentality of the opponent and the team.
Since baseball is also a human thing, hitters who suffered from such reverse framing have no choice but to flinch in the next ball and the next at-bat. If those thoughts do not calm down, there will be an afterimage effect (?) that makes it difficult to concentrate on the game.
Of course, it's not easy for players who have played baseball for decades to force themselves to get the ball.
Kim Min-sik and Kang Min-ho are also cases in which they were unintentionally framed in a back-firing situation.
There may be a mistake of intentionally dropping the ball back. In any case, it is one of the laughable landscapes created by players who are adapting hard to the new system called ABS.
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