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Originally posted by David B
But a called third strike on a pitch that hit a Tornado batter kept a runner off base when Hunter Dunaway followed with a solo home run that cut the margin to 8-7.
The stranget things is that it was with two strikes and the kid batting already had 2 home runs in the game.
I know that several of their players have a tendency to lean in on pitches and have seen them try to get hit, (but always on a pitch that was in etc.,) but just wondering if any of you have actually had to call strike three on the pitch.
My guess is that is would have to be a curve ball, but Wow! Don't think I'd make that call unless it was very very obvious.
Thanks
David
[Edited by David B on May 12th, 2004 at 01:00 PM]
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David: This year I had the plate with the Valley's number 2 team. Their coach was a catcher when I called at Pan-American back in the early 90s. He teaches his players to crowd the plate.
Clean-up hitter at bat, crowding the plate. (What else?) Curve ball, and B4 leans into the pitch. I call dead ball, and he starts for first.
I start for the third-base box. "Tinker," I said, "he's not going to get first."
Grinning: "Yes, he did lean a little far, didn't he?"
"You're not going to like this, Coach. He's out. That pitch was a strike, and he already had two."
Tinker said not a word. (He's known me a long time.)
My records show it is the first time I ever called that play for an out.