
Thu Aug 03, 2006, 02:13pm
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: SE Wisconsin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bluezebra
The black, technically, is not part of home plate. It is beveled so a sliding runner will not catch his/her cleats, and possibly sustain a leg injury. Now, for reality. In baseball, fast pitch softball, and slow pitch softball, I ALWAYS called the black as being in the strike zone. If the rule states that a pitched ball is dead when it hits the plate, I've got, "STRIKE. DEAD BALL".
Bob
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If the black in not part of the plate why would you kill the play??? Confused!
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