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Originally Posted by Jim Porter
The top of the Little League strike zone is at the armpit.
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Jim I did not watch all the Regional finals. I saw 3 Regional finals.
New Mexico / Texas; Indiana / Ohio; and last night Arizona / Cal
The PU's zone in the aforementioned games was BIG. The biggest was in the Arizona / Cal game where the PU was calling pitches approx 8 -12 inches outisde a strike. The ESPN commentators had a tough time in saying "that was borderline" At least from my viewpoint the zone was a large as I have seen in quite some time.
Perhaps with LL instituting a Pitch count rule, the PU's at the Regionals were instructed to be as LIBERAL as possible.
We will have to wait and see how the zone looks come the LLWS but compared to the last year, the zone has indeed been very very liberal and as mentioned perhaps the new pitch count rule has something to do with it.
Pete Booth