I had that situation just this weekend. Right handed batter, very slow 12/6 curve ball coming right at batter, who turns his shoulder INTO the pitch. He starts trotting down to 1b, while i'm yelling, "TIME, TIME.... thats a ball!!! Batter stay here!!".. while pointing to the plate.
HC, in the third base box, comes down and starts his discussion with me like this.. " bob, i admit that he didn't make a real great effort to get out of the way......" I responded, "don, he didn't get out of the way at all, he moved into the pitch"...
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