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Old Thu Aug 11, 2011, 07:40pm
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One of the reasons for getting help on check/half swings is because it is impossible to have "one eye on the pitch and the other eye on the swing".
WTF?

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not to mention its usually the batter's FRONT foot (the fartherst part of the batter's body away from the umpire) that tends to be outside the box on plays like this.
That's when it's the EASIEST for PU to make the call. Foot, pitch, and bat are all parallaxically close.
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