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In no place will you find verbiage that tells an umpire to give a ball and 1/2 off the plate as a strike. You might find individual umpires who call that way (on purpose, or simply bad mechanics in some cases), but no rule.
The rule says that if any part of the ball crosses over any part of the plate (at the proper height, of course), it's a strike. If the ball curves, it may look off the plate when caught, but the key is that the ball has to, at some point, be over the plate (again - this could be just a whisker of the ball over a sliver of the plate).
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