[RPatrino]

[QUOTE=Justme]So is it the majority opinion here that IF:

1. A curve ball (or other pitch) crosses the plate around chest high but ends up being caught by F2 at strike level (it looks like a strike where caught) it should be called a strike?

What does chest high mean? If the pitch is a curve ball and it's caught at strike level, which I presume is somewhere around the knees, then possibly the curve never hit the zone in the first place. This is one of those "had to be there" situations and is very hard to answer. A curve that starts very high and ends up caught in the zone is not a strike.


2. A curve ball (or other pitch) crosses the plate around knee high but is caught below F2's knees or even in the dirt should be called a ball?

I would not call this a strike, you would start a chirp fest. Your credibility and game management would sink faster than submarine with a screen door.


3. A pitch crosses the outside corner of the plate but F2 has to reach across his body to make the catch, giving the appearance that the pitch missed, you call it a ball?

Where did the F2 initially set up?


4. F2 (left-handed, RH batter) sets up slightly inside. The pitch comes inside (looks like a strike to the coaches from their side view) but because F2 didn't have to move his mitt you call it a strike? Same with the outside pitch?

The inside corner is easy to call, if you are lined up with your nose on the inside corner and you aren't flinching or bailing out. If the ball would have hit you in the nose, then its a strike. Outside is a different story, you don't really have a physical reference. So, if the pitch looks like a strike, and the catcher catches it like a strike, I have a strike.

Bob P.