A pitcher who doesn’t try to strike out batters but instead tries to get them to hit the ball weakly, especially on the ground, is said to pitch to contact. “Schilling has gone on the record as saying he’d like to pitch to contact more this season in an effort to reduce his pitch count and go deeper into games. Such an effort is likely to reduce the number of strikeouts he gets but in theory might provide quicker innings and faster games.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_baseball_(P)#pitch_to_contact

“Pitch to contact” means “challenge the hitter” to hit your best stuff. Don’t futz around with pitches out of the strike zone in an attempt to “avoid contact” because ultimately if you get a reputation for throwing around the strikezone and not in the strikezone you will not get the borderline calls that pitchers who “pitch to contact” get.

What it means is, stop throwing the ball 2-3 inches off the plate to try and get them to swing at outside pitches, which increases a pitchers walk total.

Pitch to contact means bring the ball back in over the plate to make the batter more likely to swing at it, so the defense makes the plays. If the guy strikes out while up there, it’s a bonus.

Pitching to contact has never meant stop striking someone out. It means use the entire field and defensive team to record outs instead of just the catcher.

Seriously, HBT should start making people take Baseball 101 quiz and pass it before they’re allowed to register a user name.

People mock me for my username, becuase they don’t have the intelligence to understand the meaning behind it. That’s sad, because they are way more baseball idiots around here than me.