Why do most switch hitters bat left-handed?

Answer 1

1. More right handed pitchers
2. It makes it harder for a catcher to pick off a runner heading for 2nd base (most catchers are right handed)
3. When a left-handed batter bunts it makes it hard for the catcher to make a play at 1st.
4. Left handed hitters have the ability to hit a hard line drive down the first base line, which is virtually the only way to get a triple.

Answer 2

They don't they bat on both sides of the plate. But switch hitters mostly bat on the left side because most pitchers are right handed and it is a disadvantage to a right handed pitcher throwing to a left handed batter because the batter can see the ball better and vice versa.

Answer 3

Because the definition of a switch hitter is one who bats both left and right--- SO THEY SHOULD BAT LEFT HANDED.
No actually there are many more right handed pictures and a lefty naturally hits better again est righty pictures.

Answer 4

Most switch hitters bat left-handed, because from birth, lefties are living in a world built around righties. For this reason, lefties are accustomed to having to do certain things built for righties, which naturally makes their right side stronger. Righties don't have to worry about this, as there's nothing in particular that's catered specifically to lefties. For this reason, it makes natural sense that switch hitters are natural lefties with a respectable ability from the right side.

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Answer 5

A hitter ought to regularly bat proper exceeded antagonistic to a lefty because a stream pitch i.e. a curveball is toughest to hit at the same time as it breaks remote from you so that they choose it to interrupt in. For a knuckleballer it really is not available, even for the pitcher, to understand the position the ball is going so for this reason a change hitter dealing with a lefty ought to bat left exceeded because they could see the ball longer and larger perfect and optimistically effectively track it and get valuable.

Answer 6

I`m guessing because most pitchers are righties, switch hitters bat lefty far more often, and become more comfortable on that side.

Answer 7

BECAUSE MOST PITCHERS ARE RIGHT-HANDED. Its easier to hit a breaking ball that is coming toward you than one that is going away from you.

Batting left handed against a right handed pitcher means that the ball will (usually) bend toward you instead of away from you.

So, when there is a right-handed pitcher, it is more beneficial to bat from the left side. And vice-versa.

Righties want to bat against lefties.
Lefties want to bat against righties.

Answer 8

Switch hitters bat right or left. .Which they choose depends on the pitcher they are up against. If they have a left-handed pitcher, they have an advantage if they bat left, because most left-handed pitchers are used to pitching to right handed batters. If they are facing a right handed pitcher, the right handed pitcher is used to pitching to right handers, so batting left is an advantage. But just to confuse pitchers, they can switch around if they come up against a pitcher who is accustomed to left handers.

Answer 9

I agree with guy #1 - I'm a leftie - and I bat right-handed normally.....but can bat left as well. My dad taught me to golf right-handed since it's awkward to do so left.....

I think also - that since most people are right-handed - the coaches don't know how to teach to bat leftie - so they teach right-handed.....

Besides - lefties use both the left & right side of their brains!

Answer 10

They bat predominantly left-handed becaused there are far more right-handed pitchers than left-handed ones.