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Originally Posted by NDblue
I do this when I notice a batter taking instructions from 3rd base or he/she is looking over the field. I don't let the batter take their sweet a$$ time about it and I don't let it slow up the game but I give the batter the benifit of the doubt. Slow pitch softball is a hiiters game. I don't let the pitcher control the pace, that's what I'm there for. With one foot in the box (you can tell) the batter isn't ready and the pitcher must wait for me to give the signal to play ball. I don't let this happen after every pitch, only with a new batter. Even though they do chalk the box in women's SP here in Bismarck, the box usually isn't legal so I usually scuff out the wrong lines before the game.
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Yeah, that was how I was stopping him. I always keep the hand up. But he was just trying me, I guess, to see how much I'd let him get away with. However, when several umpires tell me the batter is considered in the box, with only one foot, I like to know where in the rule book that is covered.