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Old Wed Jun 20, 2012, 05:59pm
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Originally Posted by Tru_in_Blu View Post
Also amended pitch height to 6 to 12 feet. Guess the pitchers feel threatened with balls coming back at them if the restriction is 10 feet. But most of them don't live in the 10 to 12 foot range consistently. They throw as many flat pitches as they do over 12 feet. But if they feel safer, so be it.
I love this part. For chrissakes, it's slowpitch softball. It isn't the pitch that causes the ball to come back up the middle.
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