EAJuggalo
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There isn't any real rule of thumb about how far back a ball can land. What I look at, what everyone I talk to that does Conference somewhat regularly has told me, is where it is when it gets to the plate. If you get a pitch that comes up three from release, comes across the top of the zone it could land quite a ways back. If you get it up near 10' it's got to land pretty short. I give a heavier strike than a lot of guys but I don't give that one that just sneaks over the plate if it's not a ways up. My partner for the weekend, has a much lighter zone. I think you saw that in two games of yours we had.Can you tell me the distance or the general rule of thumb on how far back a ball can land behind the plate for it to be a strike. I started our (JEC) game against Nightmare the game before we played chanticlear. I swear if the ball wasnt landing right behind the plate and i mean right behind it, it was not being called a strike and forget about height, that wasnt called much either. Just wanted some clarification on that, because it seemed alot tighter this weekend then anytime i ever pitched in the conference, yet when we were over at Evergreen playing Saturday morning the strike zone was massive against the team from Alaska. Overall good fun tourney, wish we could have played a bit better against Xtreme, score 9 in the first and 7 in the second was a great start, but then we egged in the third and i ended up giving up the walk off homer to Stewart for the run rule in the 6th. Again another pitch was about 9th feet high, right behind the plate, called a ball, of course the next one i had to groove ended up over the fence.
One thing that was pretty remarkable this weekend. Every umpire out there this weekend started and came up umpiring USSSA in MN. I was the only out of state guy and I grew up in Minneapolis. I've never heard of that happening anywhere else.
How was that team from Alaska? I didn't get a chance to see them play at all, but I think it was cool that they came down to play.