Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bdmrrr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!trwatf!rlgvax!bdmrrr!gates From: gates@bdmrrr.UUCP (Al Gates) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Why can't the NL hit? Message-ID: <302@bdmrrr.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 16:59:14 EDT Article-I.D.: bdmrrr.302 Posted: Fri Jun 21 16:59:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:53:24 EDT Organization: BDM Corporation, McLean, Virginia Lines: 18 OK baseball fans let's talk it up out there! Here is some fuel for the fire... Why can't the National League hit this year? The San Francisco Giants are hitting .216 as a team! It seems like two games every night in the National League are shutouts. Last night I listened to Danny Cox of the Cardinals pitch a nine hit shut out over the Phillies. I don't consider Danny Cox to be a good pitcher, yet that was his third shutout of the year. I heard Tim McCarver (Mets broadcaster) say that the National League hitters in general were not taking pitches -- swinging at bad balls. I can believe that but why are American Leaguers more patient? Does the DH have something to do with this? Is National League pitching better than American League pitching? 'CPUHOG' Gates