 what's up everybody welcome back to sequence we are here for a bat number three with hitting guru david doll and why this at bat we talked a little bit before about a kenley jansen homer a walker bueller homer now why this at bat this is one of my favorites just because i'm o2 facing a guy throwing hard again and i was i was in a good spot with my swing um and i to be honest i crushed it and i i felt good about it like i i dropped it out i had a little flag with it so it's one and it went i thought i personally thought when i hit it it was going to go third deck and then i remembered okay i'm not cargo i don't have that kind of juice it went like a little second deck but it was it was one this is one of my favorites just because it was a it was just a really good swing and one thing i'll say is you know we saw the walker bueller one and kind of you'll notice my stance or setup might be a little different here and reason being is because we made those adjustments at the beginning of the season and they were working pretty well for a while but one thing i was striking out a lot and i you know i caught that ball up but a lot of times i was missing them and at my hands you know i wanted them low but as the season kept going they just kept dropping lower and lower without even really like without even really noticing you just kind of you get tired you get fatigue so you're just doing stuff that you don't even really realize sometimes and i ended up i was starting to crunch a little too much when i was loading so i was really getting susceptible to that fastball up again and uh talking to the hitting coaches uh talk to my dad you know my hitting guy Trent um just talking to him about everything and i was like um we go to we went to boston and that's where i started we had a two game series facing chris sale and and then uh i think rodry was the other lefty um yeah rodriguez yeah rodriguez and they dice they dice me up their bullpen dice me up i think i was over five i think i was probably over 80 for nine bunch of strikeouts um high fastballs curveballs consumed then we went to philly had to face nola he punched my times tough babies um door sinkers and then we went to pittsburgh face archer he dominated me and so i was like okay let me just step back a little bit i actually bud gave me the next day off after archer so i was like okay i went back and started watching a lot of video from 16 18 and then some video from in season and you know videos when i was getting out and i just thought you know i was starting hands were getting too low starting to crunch too much and i i felt like okay i'm gonna go back to knowing what i know now with how to properly load how to do the right things i'm gonna go back to more of a higher setup raise my hands up a little bit more and kind of just and still load and do everything the same but just try to be a little taller and have my hands a little higher and that's in may i made that adjustment played the next day two hits and then from there i just like really took off and that's where you know that adjustment i think is why what helped me make that make the all-star team because when i made that adjustment is when i really started started having a lot of success i love it but i felt like i needed to do the stuff at the beginning of the season to get the feel of you know getting more relaxed in the upper body taking all the tension and stress out of the shoulders and and it helps me you know i feel like the process it's the process so i feel like it helps me lead get get here i love that you know during an all-star season that you're searching and willing to make adjustments because a lot of times you know you're going well you hit a little rough patch it's like do i need to make an adjustment here do i want to or is just like one of those things i'm just going through a little rough patch do i stay the course and i think the answer is it depends well for me it was i was striking out at like 35 percent of the time and that's just way too much for me like i was i was getting hits i was still hitting around i think when i made this adjustment i was like 288-290 so i was still up there i just dropped below 300 but it was still like i was relying on a lot of good luck kind of a lot of like batting average balls of play stuff was just falling for me all the time and i was i mean i was striking out like 30 plus percent and that permitted i was just i was embarrassed about it so i was gonna figure out a way to cut that down and when i made this adjustment i cut it down a lot like i think from that point forward if you look at my numbers like i think my strikeout percent it was like 21-22 percent so it helps me out a lot we're gonna have our guy kyle who edits our videos here he's probably gonna put up beginning of the year than this is there something to be said about when you were crouching and being a little more hinged do you think it had an effect on you seeing the ball like a little more head movement yeah i i think so i think you know i was i'd start a little up and i'd go a little bit down so just that extra head movement might have might have caused me to not pick up some things as quickly and and uh you know when i when i went back i felt like my head movement was very very minimal and that's i feel like the best players in the game they don't have a lot of head movement well at least up and down i struggle with that a lot you know you can kind of go forward with it go forward but like when you're going when you're starting here and you're going here like the ball balls moving a lot on you i think that's the biggest thing that i would tell a young players like young you know high school kids whatever it's really focus on what your head's doing yeah because you can do everything right but if you're not seeing the ball yeah that's it man and uh we used to i'm gonna get off track here a little bit we used to have this thing this is way back in the day and and joe mowers a guy obviously who you know i played with and people cherish him in the minister of twins organization for good reason and they would show his head and his head doesn't move at all and i i'm like man like i wish i could do that i can't it's because it's not who i am as a hitter but you always kind of strive for that he he like you said all these good hitters i really believe that the base of that is the lack of head movement up and down because they're just seeing the ball better if they move it's like forward but they stay on like kind of the same line and like i love watching Juan Soto hit that dude that dude's unbelievable like he doesn't not a lot of movement it's just i love watching him hit okay all right let's get into this at bat we got a young guy spores who throws cheese which is the norm the norm usual spin rate top of the zone heaters and yeah so he i remember he got two heaters by me kind of up and in and you know well don't be spoiling it man true okay all right let's see this first pitch so six one you know kind of a low uh stress at bat here and it was one of those things too the dodgers were beating us pretty bad all a good bit at that point in the season so we're i think this was the game we finally it might have been like our first win against them our first time we were really up on them all like they they had our number most of the year so it was it was nice to have have a game like this it got us going a little bit is this post all star yeah this is post all star okay so this is swaggy do this was actually right end of july right before i like i think this was the game before i ended up getting hurt and missing the rest of the year so this is the reason i love this homer too because it was the last homer that i hit i watch a lot because you know it's the most recent one you got the elbow guard on yeah i actually i used to wear tape i wore the evo shield got hit by a chad green in the forearm like 97 right in the form so i went i went with this this thing i love it i love these unis too i think these are probably black i like the black jerseys to cut off sleeves all right here we go first pitch here so i never faced him before either i didn't know much about him got up in there a little cut on it yeah a little cut there and when you when you when you your first time facing a guy obviously you see video on him and you had the scouting report i was gonna say like it's important for you to see one clearly it's not you're out there hacking yeah i'm trying to get trying to get the knock uh i don't like taking first pitch fastballs in the middle but obviously that one ran i probably would have been better off to take it but yeah i'm i'm a naturally aggressive hitter and like i said it's one thing i'm working on trying to be a little more selective and not not chase as much but so that one cut a little bit yeah so now are you thinking okay now i gotta set my sights maybe to right center here as opposed to left center i am thinking all right i need to probably need to shorten up need to get the foot down a little earlier and it seems like his balls kind of taken off to playing a little harder than what he's throwing right there so i am i'm like all right i'm thinking more to the right of center not not for sure right center but um i ended up adjusting after this pitch to the right center all right here we go oh one you're like man i was kind of a i was i was kind of a fastball with some cut on it i think uh here we go setting up same spot spot by me hmm now i see that pitch again now i'm like okay i need to think right center and get the head yeah he gasses this one up man he threw this one i was like he's really got some like there's a little fun pulls that glove down so you little funk right so after this i'm like okay i'm definitely i'm literally i'm gonna feel like i'm just putting my foot down and just gonna try to wait on it and i'm gonna try to i'm trying to take this to right center now and um o2 and he went he goes back to the same exact spot but he misses down just a tick and i think it was a young pitcher young a younger catcher so they saw that it was working so they went back up there so i was just like i kind of had a feeling they were gonna try to go back if it's working if they broke don't fix it kind of thing so i just i felt like he was going back up there if he throws me like a back foot slider or something i'm i'm looking like an idiot yeah i kind of i'd be on the same page as you here like o2 um not a great swing uh-oh then good swing but he gasses yeah o1 to get to o2 i think if i'm up there i'm like okay he's at least gonna go one more time there i i said two i'm not gonna get beat by the same pitch three straight times like i'm have to make an adjustment i'm choked up i'm like i'm doing whatever i can not to get beat by that pitch again all right well here we go where's he gonna set up see he wants he wants it there again yeah he's like you know what let's try to beat this guy so we'll see him set up you're trying to pull this ball now i see you choking up oh no and that one like i had some i had some swag with that like i dropped it that put the head down like i i feel good about it oh i missed it but yeah i mean if you watch the uh what is that called k-zone where they show the balls like he's just clustering that yeah up and in quadrant right at the top let's watch it again just watch this this is this is post all-star right here yeah this is swaggy d feeling good about myself a thing i do through like a lot of my homers i go back and i've watched a lot of my homers i am choked up a lot of times like and i didn't notice that until i went back and looked but i choked up a lot even early in the count first pitch kind of i just feel like when i'm choked up i have more barrel control and i don't chase as much for some reason like i just i don't know it just it's weird i i like choking up for some reason i i just something i do yeah i i you know i agree with that and that's kind of my argument against like these get your a swing off like you know a lot of times when you're just trying to have a good swing and and catch the ball at the right point of contact like you don't need an a swing to hit a homer you know i just need a barrel it how you need a good bat path and and to put on the barrel yeah and you're gonna see here i love the slow most my favorite thing oh my look at this let's go back and look at that how clean your path is man through that ball right there you're like you can see the choke up right there when i hit i was like oh i got that one that one i thought i thought it might go third deck and then i remember that's a bomb man oh another great angle here and so really if we if we think about it you know we always talk about adjustments on this show you got to o2 you got beat a few times and your main adjustment there was let's set my sights a little bit more to right field i'm gonna choke up to give me some more bat control yeah and then i have to put down like i know there's a lot of people that hate here and get the foot down they would either here get up and like i said i go through phases where it's both like there's times sometimes i feel like if i think get it up too early i get up too early and then i sit there and i i have a tough time like hanging on to it so i end up falling and uh but then there's times where i'm in sequence and it's working and so i ride i ride that feeling or that thought process out and then if it doesn't work i go okay i'm gonna try to think get my foot down and it ends up cleaning my leg kick up and making it like up down like it should be and but then there's times when i think get it down and i end up going forward so it's kind of like i go back and forth with those thoughts like whatever's working and whatever whatever feels right at that time um and other stuff like like you said the adjustments you got to make during the abat like pitch to pitch like learning from each pitch each abat like how to how to move on how to move on from failure and uh get to the next pitch that's a that's a big thing you got a short memory in this game for sure you can't hold on you like i just try to i just try to like understand learn what i did and move on from it go to the next pitch and i know if i have an offer game i'm thinking okay i'm gonna play tomorrow so i'll be back in there i got more bats you go go in slumps you just think all right i got still got 400 more bats left i can still i can still do this thing like you know so that's that if i get out my first abat i'm like i still got three more bats today like you know so that's that's mentally that's where i try to keep keep my mind out always trying to stay positive and and learning but move on from it as quick as you can i mean there's no denying and forever you can say this that's an all-star mlb all-star mentality right there and i think that is it really is what you have to do to be successful as a hitter because of how much failure we do go through even the all-stars you know the best hitters in the world they're going to fail more than they succeed and you got to have that mindset and there's times where you feel terrible during the season and you just have to go out there and battle like you can't let anyone know that you get terrible like you don't want the pitcher to know because as soon as they know they got you but you know if even if you feel terrible you got to go out there and battle learn from each pitch and like you said move on from the failure all right man well i appreciate you coming on giving us three at bats three i think there's a ton of great nuggets in these and these videos that we're sharing and everybody go check out david doll on his instagram and his twitter he's putting out drills yeah for young guys to check out and see what he does and put this together today hopefully post later in the week or something and hopefully it turns out well but it's it's stuff that i do that i feel like's helped me um might not help everyone but hopefully it can help someone i love it what's the what's the handle so we'll put it up to handle is ddoll 21 i know i'm number 26 but i created this handle a long time ago and i've changed it so ddoll 21 all right man i appreciate you joining us thank you yeah thank you for having me