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Old Mon Jan 05, 2009, 09:17pm
Kevin Finnerty Kevin Finnerty is offline
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Originally Posted by tballump View Post
Umpmazza

Could you make a picture with the batter and the official strike zone (shaded in blue) and put a O (a little bigger O than I just did to represent the baseball) and show a pitch just nicking the bottom, top and both sides of the strike zone as well as the corners so that the younger umpires can see that the "whole" ball does not have to pass through the zone. As long as "any" part of the ball passes through "any" part of the strike zone it is a strike by definition. Thanks.
This picture was for you and not intended for SAUmp to go on one of his ranting tangents:

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