[outathm]

I will always brush the plate, no matter how clean it is to give my catcher a chance to catch her breath. Earlier this year I had a catcher ask for time to go out to the pitcher when I had taken a foul ball.

I was walking out to the mound after the time I usually allow and she said to me ' Are you ready to go now?'. I was not aware that the time was for me, she and the pitcher had nothing to say, just a courtesy from the catcher to me.