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Originally posted by Dakota
The expected call is a HBP, take your base. It is what everyone at the park saw except you.
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And everyone in the park sees a strike when the catcher doesn't move her glove on a thigh-high pitch, but I see the ball 6" outside.
Should I still call it a strike because that's what everyone expects?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a believer in the "magic bullet theory". For that matter, I've always wondered about the intelligence of the PA electorate for keeping someone like Arlen Specter in office after the "bullet" theory.
The odds of this happening and an umpire actually being able to see it are remote, but I'm responding to the offered scenario as fact.
I could only see it happening if the batter was crowding the plate toward the back of the box. If an umpire did see such a pitch, I would expect something along the line of:
Dead ball! Pitch passed through the strike zone. No base, strike on the batter.
There would still be a discussion, but the coach will know what the subject is prior to getting to the PU and hopefully have a question in mind other than, "What? Are you out of your mind?"