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Tim
I have always found the "protect the plate" advice misleading. The batter has the bat, be aggressive. I have a different take on 2 strike hitting than you. I do not want hitters to change anything, that's why they practice hitting. I want them to open up the strike zone some, I hate called 3rd strikes. Babe Ruth held 2 world records simultaneously, home runs and strikeouts. Gotta take the good with the bad. I appreciate your philosophy and many use it very successfully.
Chip as I have stated I never found everything in one book...however the Science of Hitting by TSW put it in a nutshell. "Page 65...With two strikes, the advantage turns: you now have to concede to the pitcher. You have to make adjustments. You have to think in terms of making everything quicker." and "How do you do that? You choke up a little bit. You quit trying to pull. You think more about that push swing, that 90-degree impact from the direction of the pitch.....Rod Carew, George Brett, Wade Boggs, Don Mattingly and Pete Rose are probably the most flexible hitters around today."
The attack mode was Merv Retmans idea for a drill, Greg Walker with the Sox's terms it the flat foot drill...the hitter is at toe touch on the inside edge of the lead foot or what is termed eversion and the knee is flexed and the hands are separated. If you are in the correct position you can swing without having to make any additional movements other than lowering the elbow into the slot as the lead elbow is making a good first move forward.
The kids took the drill and on their own came up with a different way to approach two strike hitting and have made it work. Boulders daughter lead the Dayton High School for average as a freshman last year I think.
Crystl chooses to dig in and think the pitcher can not get one by her so there are differences of opinions...however the kids came up with it and it was not forced on them in my opinion. The more they can see it, they will feel it and then they fix it.