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I have not made this call in years, in fact I don't remember the last time. 2-2 count, batter is crowding the plate in the 6th, as he did in the 1st and the 4th. He leans into a pitch over the plate and in the strike zone. I ring up strike 3 and then explain it to the head coach, who did not complain. I expect this player gets hit alot the way he crowds the plate. Half the crowd is saying "good call blue" and the other half is saying stuff like "bush call", etc.
While I know this was the correct call, I was going over in my mind the what if, what if he was 3 inches in front of the plate when struck by what would have been a strike if allowed to enter the strike zone. Some here have made a good arguement for calling a ball, by rule, because the pitch had not entered the strike zone it can't be a strike. This seems extremely illogical to me. If you are struck by a pitch in front of the plate by a pitch that would most likely have been a strike if allowed to continue on it's path, it seems to me like that should be called a strike.
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