[Jamesy]

I can understand why she bats leadoff (in a regular length softball game batting 1st vs 4th probably adds 1/3 of an at-bat per game), but I wonder if she were to bat 3rd she would be more likely to be up with runners on base and thus harder to pitch around. Batting leadoff, she starts the game with no one on and has to follow the weakest hitters in the lineup otherwise.

[Jamesy]

I can understand why she bats leadoff (in a regular length softball game batting 1st vs 4th probably adds 1/3 of an at-bat per game), but I wonder if she were to bat 3rd she would be more likely to be up with runners on base and thus harder to pitch around. Batting leadoff, she starts the game with no one on and has to follow the weakest hitters in the lineup otherwise.