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Originally Posted by BoomerSooner
My understanding contrary to what we always find at fields is that the black portion of the plate is actually supposed to be covered by dirt so the that the white is flush with the surronding dirt. As such on a perfect field there would be no black. This would suggest to me that the black isn't part of the plate, however physics/geometry show that balls hitting the black typically hit the white as well.
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When doing the plate in baseball, fast pitch and slow pitch softball, I always made a point of brushing off the 'black' at the start of both halves of the first inning. That showed that I'm calling it as part of the plate.
Bob