Learn strategies to pitch with runners on 3rd base – the bases loaded, 2nd & 3rd, and runner on 3rd only. Then, Dan covers how to mentally recover from a bad start. Lastly, does throwing a slider put extra stress on a pitchers’ arm? Is a slider more harmful than a curveball or other pitch types?

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Transcript: Dear Baseball Gods Podcast EP96 – How to Pitch with Runners on 3rd; How to Bounce Back After a Bad Start; Is a Slider Bad for Your Arm?

You’re listening to the dear baseball gods podcast. I’m Dan Blewett. And on this show, you’ll learn advanced concepts in baseball. Explain simply I’m here to guide you on your baseball journey and help you paddle through. What’s now an ocean of misinformation, guru ism, an overly technical diamond babble.

Welcome back. This is the dear baseball gods podcast. I’m Dan Blewett on today’s show. We’re going to talk about pitching with runners on third base. So we’ll cover all three situations, a runner on third, no one out second. And third base is loaded. In our second segment, we’ll talk about bouncing back after a bad start.

And lastly, we’ll talk about, is a slider bad for your arm? Cause there’s some weird myth about this. I’m not really sure where it comes from. So first let’s talk about pitching with runners on third base. Cause this is I think tough. It’s something that you learn. There’s different approaches to all three different situations.

First off let’s talk about the base is loaded. Number one, the base load, scary. Obviously this changes with the different outbase or the out situations. So if there’s no one out, one out, two out it’s different, however, I’m just gonna talk genuinely cause generally, because I don’t want to talk about every possible out scenario for each of these three.

It’s just going to get overwhelming. So number one, when you have the bases loaded, the biggest thing you have to do is suck it up and throw a pitch,