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Originally Posted by snorman75
Is that not hitting the plate? I know from doing USSSA if it hit the plate it was not a strike. I am pretty sure that is what he was doing. Did he do it instead of calling a strike or ball? If so, it signals the ball hitting the plate. If he did it some other time, your guess is as good as mine.
Another one is the ump tapping his shoulder. Used to tell the pitcher he was deep and over the front shoulder.
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In this league, the umpire usually just says "hit the plate," but maybe he threw in that signal for variety.
In the first game I attended this year, we had an umpire call a ball that hit the plate as such and I had to keep from calling out "yeah, but is it a ball or a strike?" (since honestly, I didn't know that hitting the plate is a ball in SP up until that point)
I've seen the deep signal used so often this summer, I'm thinking of bringing swim trunks to the playoffs if our team qualifies
