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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
I'm not going to call a cockshot a ball unless the catcher completely bails out and lets me catch it. But pitches that are on the extreme edges of the zone should be stuck by the catcher to get those calls. Their coaches will even tell them that that's why the umpire didn't call it a strike. "Catch that and it's a strike, meat!" or words to that effect are often heard from the dugout.
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Sometimes that's the coach's (nice) way of saying, "Call the pitch, not the catch, please."