ALTOONA, Pa. – The game of baseball is a series of one-on-one battles.
Every single pitch is a battle within itself.
Every pitch contains the potential of the batter scoring a run or the pitcher recording an out.
Most pitches only push the at-bat marginally to an outcome.
It’s a slow moving process that makes baseball a very tedious game to follow for the casual fan and the uninitiated.
For the hardcore baseball fan, each individual pitch, each individual battle — that is the game.
That game is always controlled by the pitcher.