It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
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Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.
When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.
Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.
But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.
The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.