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Originally Posted by rwest
How many of you call a batter out for chopping the ball in SP? Does it matter how hard they chop the ball?
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In my 20 years of softball, I've never seen a chopped ball in SP, or FP for that matter.
Only because I am unsure of the training you've had, I need to ask if you know what a chopped ball is? It is not slapping down, or simply swinging down. As defined in every clinic and school I have attended in all these years, it is defined as the batter literally chopping down as if yielding an axe toward the ground.
Unless you are playing on a paved surface, I don't believe chopping down on a softball is not likely to produce any extraordinary hit or advantage to the offense.