4" low and 4" off the plate.

[mick]

Originally Posted by pingswinger

That depends on what level of baseball you are working. Anything below college, I would call that a strike and make the batters swing. No need for games to last hours if your not gonna call that close pitch.

...Most all levels except we have no Fed ball U.P. here.
What do you do with college and Adult ?
Thanks.
mick

[briancurtin]

Originally Posted by mick

What do you do with college and Adult ?

wait until the catcher asks for time to go slap some sense into his pitcher, then give it to him and hope the pitcher listened.

4" low and 4" outside is a ball now. it will be a ball tomorrow too.

[mcrowder]

Are there people here saying that if the pitcher is consistently throwing balls, they will suddenly begin calling that same (note: unhittable!) pitch a strike, simply because they want to get home earlier?

Yuck.

[jxt127]

At a training session several years ago they taught us to call a balls width inside and 2 outside as strikes and add some at the top and the bottom too. Now this was for new umpires so primarily we are talking 10 year old players in a rec league.

Fast forward to last August. 18-21 year old league game one of my fellow blues on the mound. He wanted every bit of those outside 8 inches as strikes. Tough. It was a longgggg evening.