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I would hope so. I've seen the umps that only used the 'strike box' call many balls that didn't go over the plate Strikes and vice versa. When I pitched and I realized this on a day with a good cross wind, I worked that to my advantage. Pitched the ball a foot outside the plate and let the ball fall deep into the 'strike box'. Not a Strike, but being called one. The batter would get used to that then I would throw the pitch so it would cross the plate right over the corner and blow outside the 'strike box'. The batter standing deep in the batters box would see it as a strike and have it either jam him or have to reach way out for it, if they didn't realize the ump would call it a Ball.
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