Well, in the games I played in Plam Springs, the mats were the exact same width of the plate and the plate was still a ball.
Even without a mat you can expand the zone. That area between the edge of home and the line of the batters box is in the zone to me, especially on the outside corner.
If they complain all I say is that the whole ball doesn't have to cross the plate, just a piece of it.
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