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Originally Posted by LMan
How do you reconcile (on that chart):
"Maintains the same strike zone throughout the game"
and
"Has a grasp of how the zone may be adjusted in a lopsided game"?
..in the same evaluation paragraph?
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Well, if the game is not lopsided, and you maintain the same strike zone throughout the game, you have done well.
If the game is lopsided, and you adjusted your zone in a way that kept things moving along, you have done well.
Is this such a hard concept to understand? I don't get what part of that you don't understand. It seemed VERY obvious to me the first time I read it.
I don't know of ANY higher level (at least college level) umpires who DON'T adjust their zone to be a bit bigger in lopsided games. It is a perfectly acceptable practice, and is obviously endorsed by the NCAA.
I would be a fool to call a "rule book" strike zone in a game that is 20-3. I am expanding that zone to get out of their a bit quicker. Nobody is complaining!