things with the pitcher and catcher was entirely appropriate. Also entirely too late but better late than never. Maybe coach should have told her to roll the ball to the catcher.

Show the pitcher how to put the ball back into live play!

The pitch was so hittable. Sure, you decide on a 3-0 count if you (or the coach gives the take sign) are going to swing. And it wasn't like the bases were loaded right in which a walk would bring in a run. I understand the hype because it is being framed as "the hitter swung at an attempt at an intentional walk". But that pitch was something that many batters would just swing at normally.

1,000,000 the batter takes the walk. The 1 time out of 1,000,000 the batter gets a hit makes it amazing.

It happens enough that announcers often ask each other "are you taking all the way' or do you have a green light." I personally have seen batters sit on 3-0 counters looking for something, the percentages are not so horrible. Again, I understand that it is a rarity. This was not a superstar play. It was nice, super that the batter decided to go after a pitch that was in her wheelhouse..

regular at bat with a 3-0 count on the batter where the pitcher was having trouble finding the strike zone. The pitcher was trying to throw balls and everyone there and watching on TV knew it. ** Edited by laphroaig at 6/6/2025, 4:44:42 AM

"Amazing" when in reality making plays is what players do. If you are a D1 athlete in one of the best programs in the sport, you are situationally aware. My immediate thought on it was it it was Cori M she would have busted a windshield in a parking with that pitch.

As well as how hard she hit it into the hole….pretty gutsy and clutch

But the actual pitch, the contact, and hitting a spot... a hitter hitting .397. Odds are it was not one of Canady's best pitches if she had the IBB in mind. Atwood is one of Texas' top 4 hitters with A .397 BA, 21 HRs and 12 doubles. Gutsy to swing at a 3-0 pitch? Coaches give green lights for that all the time, even though the normal mindset is to take and wait for a hittable pitch. It would be "amazing" if people focused on it being her first hit in 5 games and Texas only had 3 hits in the game prior hers. BUT she had not had a hit since the second Clemson game in the super regionals on May 23. That is a better talking point. She gets a hit nearly 40% of the time she is at-bat. It just was not spectacular or amazing. It probably didn't require GREAT situational awareness. Assuming it was obvious that they were "trying" to intentionally walk her, her situational awareness knew it was obvious ...didn't take a genius to figure out that. .though not so obvious given the pitching sequence. For many IBBs, I often see batters stay ready anyway. Gutsy? Clutch maybe because Texas had only had 3 hits prior to that and Atwood had been hitless for 5 games.

Someone, she was nervous she might throw one past the catcher with a runner on 3rd

. . . TT had never practiced the intentional pass! I guess Glasco can’t fire his pitching coach given she’s his daughter.

Glasco needed to take ownership imo

called upon to intentionally walk. And probably shouldn’t. Coaches sometimes think too much when you get into these big games.

and catchers practicing the skill of an intentional walk in training/practice going forward.

travel ball is that the pitcher is throwing from something opposite of a 'mound'. Often the area in front of the rubber gets worn down, particularly the landing area resulting in a 'pitching ditch'. ** Edited by MidloHokie at 6/5/2025, 1:45:04 PM

hit. Which is probably why it worked so well.

pitch so far out of the strike zone it shocked me. The pitch was head high, so far inside he had to step out of the way, took a hack at the ball that was similar to chopping wood - hit the ball over the fence for a dinger. No idea WTH he was thinking - if he was thinking at all - probably just reacting in a "see the ball, hit the ball" moment. Texas batter could have been in the same mindset.