I had a coach ask me between innings, "where's my pitcher missing on the low outside corner pitches?" His pitcher was trying to hit that location all inning and kept getting ball calls.
The problem was that on the low outside pitches, the catcher for some reason would stab at the ball with his glove and pop up in front of me just as the ball got to the plate. I couldn't see the plate at all when he did that and since his glove ended up outside the zone by 3 feet, I was calling ball.
I told hte catcher this once or twice and it kept happening. So when the coach asked, I told him what was going on and he switched catchers.
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