IrishBlue
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Yeah, he's wrong
So so wrong. I have some trick pitchers who can make a slow pitch ball do crazy things clipping the corners!
Any How much of the plate does the ball have to cross??
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So so wrong. I have some trick pitchers who can make a slow pitch ball do crazy things clipping the corners!
Gulf Coast Blue
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Once you get the low part of the zone mastered......you are GTG.
Joel
Joel
Its tough to throw a curve to this guy because he wont give the front portion of the outside corner. Very frustrating.
pompetti
Softball Player
Wouldn't a pitch that crosses the front corner of the plate and then lands next to the plate without crossing the back corner be outside the strike zone?
By that I mean at the point it crossed that corner it was under the front knee. Its hard to imagine a 6-10' arc pitch that lands 6inches past the front corner being high enough to be above the front knee.
By that I mean at the point it crossed that corner it was under the front knee. Its hard to imagine a 6-10' arc pitch that lands 6inches past the front corner being high enough to be above the front knee.
irishmafia
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Is it unlikely? Maybe. Impossible? No.
swish16
What goes here?
You mean when an ump says the pitch is a ball because it's "deep" is wrong?
Don't even get me started on this subject... umpire I had on Sunday jeeze!
irishmafia
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Frustrating for the umpire who doesn't want to "guess" that one, but it is difficult to see.
If I see it, I call it and I've got a couple guys in the area that can hit that corner consistently.
ilyk2win
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So you can throw "strikes" that never really went through the actual strike zone?
Or in some cases throw "balls" that actually went through the rule book definition of the strike zone
Around here (and in most places) count dictates the strike zone unfortunately
3-1 count is at least twice the size of the "called" zone of a 1-2 count.
Illegal pitcher
The Veteran
So you can throw "strikes" that never really went through the actual strike zone?
Or in some cases throw "balls" that actually went through the rule book definition of the strike zone
Since the mat (and plate) IS the strike zone according to the rule book, neither of those are possible.
Illegal pitcher
The Veteran
The plate is a strike in seniors slow-pitch. I'm not a senior, but the plate is a strike in one of my leagues. In my other league it is not.
When the mat is mentioned in the 2008 ASA rule book, it says the plate is a strike. Has the rule changed since then?
STRIKE ZONE: That space over any part of home plate, when a batter assumes a
natural batting stance adjacent to home plate, between the batter’s,
A. (Fast Pitch) Arm pits and the top of the knees.
B. (Slow Pitch) Back shoulder and the front knee.
C. (Seniors Slow Pitch): A rectangle 17” x 34” which includes the plate
and the plate extension (mat). Any legally pitch ball not struck at that
lands on any part of the plate or mat will be ruled a strike. The shoulder
to the knee strike zone has been eliminated.