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Old Tue Aug 19, 2003, 08:29pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Re: Dirt or black

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Originally posted by DownTownTonyBrown
And it is for that very reason that when I officiate Slooow Pitch, I cover that back, black strip with dirt... so a pitch cannot hit the black. And I can call such a pitch that lands in the dirt at that location (above the buried black strip), having had an appropriate arch to pass through the strike zone, A STRIKE.

Covering it with dirt takes away a catcher's opportunity to argue with me about it... the pitched landed BEHIND the plate.

THREE!

The catcher isn't going to argue anything if they want to stay the catcher that game.
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