Say What?

The announcers for last night’s Women’s College World Series game on ESPN alternated between gibberish and cliché.  Item #1:  Alabama starting pitcher Jaclyn Traina was throwing at 70 miles per hour, “which is like 100 miles per hour in baseball.”  Then tell me, why doesn’t somebody see what Traina could do with a baseball in her right hand?

And then we have this gem—Florida pitcher Hannah Rogers “pitches to contact.”  Well, so has every pitcher with a career ERA over 4.00.  Better to say that Rogers depends on groundballs rather than strikeouts.  Tommy John did, too.