re: Official Braves 2019 Postseason Thread

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but whenever I'm at the park for a big game, I always wonder who the crowd noise impacts more - pitchers or batters. I have to think that crowd noise can speed up heart rate for players but I never know if there is a net benefit for the batter or pitcher when the crowd is going crazy. Maybe it just really depends on the individual player? Maybe the home player positively feeds off it whether they are batting or pitching and the opposite happens to the road player? Maybe it doesn't mean shite.

I just know in football and a lot of other sports there seems to be a clear time to get loud (help your defense in football, rattle opponent when shooting a free throw etc). The Suntrust park will be going nuts when our pitcher has 2 outs and 2 strikes on the batter. Then we will also be going nuts when our batter has runners in scoring position. Sometimes when I'm screaming my head off for our pitcher and then he throws one wild I can't help but think - is the crowd noise speeding him up/messing with mechanics, etc? And when I'm screaming for our batter and he swings at a terrible pitch I can't help thinking - is the crowd noise causing him to press, expand his strike zone?