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Mon Mar 27, 2006, 02:43pm
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4" low and 4" outside is a ball now. it will be a ball tomorrow too. 
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Mon Mar 27, 2006, 03:51pm
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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.
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Mon Mar 27, 2006, 04:45pm
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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.
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