"It's irritating when a guy tries to take the inside pitch and make it something that works against him."

He was turning on the inside pitches that previously tied him up.

How to get the bat around more quickly so that he could pull the inside pitch.

He was saying, 'We'll show you what an inside pitch is.'

But he fell behind and struggled with command of his inside pitches.

"I was like a baseball player who's afraid of the inside pitch," he said.

Batters have apparently been slow to adapt to the return of the inside pitch.

Hamilton said the inside pitches thrown to him "were no accident, I guarantee that."

When the count reached 2-2, Williams turned on an inside pitch.

In other words, if I'm having trouble with an inside pitch, I can't think about that and change everything.

Howard took off for second on a low, inside pitch.

"I used to hit that inside pitch to right field, but now I'm pulling it."

He became determined to direct balls toward right field, even when inside pitches make that nearly impossible.

The game has changed, too, in the way hitters resent inside pitches.

In batting practice they fed him inside pitches, and told him to focus on pulling the ball.

Sort of like a brushback inside pitch, but explosive?

One of the challenges for Matsui will be adjusting to inside pitches that push him off the plate.

After two consecutive inside pitches, George Bell charged the mound.

But inside pitches, or brushbacks, are part of baseball, and a hitter knows that.

This season, he will have to prove that he can pull not just inside pitches but those that are down and away.