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Old Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:27pm
Rich Ives Rich Ives is offline
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Originally Posted by SWFLguy View Post
It's been a long time since I did any baseball, let alone college level. In my training, I was always of the mind that the plate umpire simply calls ball if it is a ball. I hear some of the plate umpires in the CWS saying where the pitch was on a ball at times. I'm guessing these guys are top of the line arbiters and it is OK for them to do this. Anyone fill me in?
There are a couple of MLB umpires that do that. It's not like it's forbidden.
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