When is it advisable to tell my pitcher to intentionally walk a hitter?

When is it advisable to tell my pitcher to intentionally walk a hitter?

During the course of the game, it's advisable to tell your pitcher to intentionally walk a hitter in one of a few scenarios. The first one is if there's a very, very good hitter at the plate. He's very threatening. He represents a tying run, or maybe the tying run's on base and you don't want to give him a chance to be the guy that costs you the game, and so you'd rather walk him intentionally and just take your chances on the next guy. Other situations that are very common is if the pitcher is on deck who's considered to be at the higher levels, not as good of a hitter. And it's probably not because he's not as good of a hitter, he just doesn't get to practice as much. So they'll often walk a hitter in front of the pitcher and force the pitcher to hit. Other times is when you have what's call an open bag, or an open base, and what that means is you have a runner on second with maybe one out. And you purposely want to put a runner on first to create a double play, to create a force play at all three of the bases.