When that sticky situation arises when you need to make a decision whether you intentionally walk a batter or pitch to a batter, the unintentional intentional walk often arises. Coaches say "I'd pitch to him but I wouldn't give him anything to hit."
This sounds like the epitome of sitting on the fence. You know not making a decision is in fact making a decision.
There are so many bad things that can happen when you decide to pitch around a batter.
1- Your pitcher doesn't command the strike zone anyway so how can you ask him to command outside the strike zone?
2- Is your catcher able to block those errant balls that your pitcher is going to be throwing outside of the strike zone?
3- Does your pitchers ego prevent him from totally committing to the plan?
These three issues usually lead me to pick one or the other. And I usually settle on the philosophy of never let the big bat beat you late in the game.
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