C Trent was in attendance for Saturdays Chattanooga Lookouts game and got a chance to talk to Daryl Thompson after the game. He wrote a great article on him and how he approaches pitching. Its a must read, here are some of the highlights, but really, go read the entire thing.
The first thing Daryl Thompson wants you to know is that although the scoreboard radar gun showed 97 miles per hour on a pitch of his last week at AT&T Field in Chattanooga, he doesn’t throw that hard.
“The gun’s wrong — make sure you put that in,” Thompson said. “I’m definitely not throwing 97, maybe 92, maybe 93, but not 97. I think the gun has something extra on it. It’s good for the crowd though.”
“Every time I go out there, I try to get that first pitch strike,” Thompson said. “I try to keep them off balance and trick them. It all depends on the team. I either go right at them or pitch backwards.”
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