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Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve
Also a proven fact that you can test at your convenience, it isn't physically possible for a sphere with the dimensions of a softball to touch the black part of the plate without also touching the white part. Try it, you cannot place the ball in that position due to natural curvature of the sphere. By rule, a ball, cannot be a strike.
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This is completely false. So false that I can't conceive of why someone I know to be very intelligent (you) would say such a thing.
Put the ball on the plate. Roll it to the left. At some point, the tangent of the ball is the white part of the plate. Roll it any amount more (up to the width of the black) and it's over the black, and not over the white.