[bluezebra]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

This used to be standard, and still is, in some areas. It comes under preventive umpiring. Luckily, the coach understood and instead of giving the umpires a hard time, he worked on getting the pitcher prepared.

Tell me there is a FP umpire on here that hasn't heard, "she's being pitching like that all year". I think you give the umpires the benefit of the doubt. Even in a state as small as mine, we constantly hear about how this or that is called in another part of the state which may or may not be correct.

Tell me there is a FP umpire on here that hasn't heard, "she's being pitching like that all year".

I always heard, "She's been pitching like that all season".

Bob