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Old Fri Nov 10, 2017, 11:23pm
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Originally Posted by Insane Blue View Post
In 30 years of umpiring I might have seen a dozen Intentional Walks.

The biggest problem was getting the pitcher and catcher to do it properly as most do not understand the mechanics of it.
In twenty years, I've seen six or eight. Half of them were in Men's FP, where the F1 and F2 knew what they were doing. Of the (maybe) four I've seen in girl's/college softball, at least two resulted in disaster due to a wild pitch.

WHICH IS AS IT SHOULD BE. THROW THE BALL.
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