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Originally posted by Dakota
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Originally posted by whaddayouknow
To me, hammer=softball and point=baseball, and not a hill of beans difference in benefits.
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"point" is also used in LL softball.
My thought was "hammer" = "out" and "point" = "strike."
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Which is based on baseball umpiring, not softball.
As explained last night on Fox Sports, the right arm sweeping out is an indicator for a swing, not strike. Even on a swinging third strike, some umpires still put a little more emphasis in their signal.
If Eddings (?) did believe the ball was caught, why didn't he simply say so? Who cares if the runner took off for 1B? That is a much easier sell than it not being an out.