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4" low and 4" off the plate.
Through the first inning, if you have both pitchers consistently throwing 4" low and 4" off the plate how do you handle it?
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I simply continue to umpire.
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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.
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4" low and 4" outside is a ball now. it will be a ball tomorrow too. |
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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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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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4 inches low and 4 inches off the plate is close? Maybe for u12s. "Catch tell your boy to give me a ball in and a ball up or there is nothing I can do." You are going to get some chirping, esp. if they are hitting the mark; but, they will come around. |
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4 inches low and 4 inches off is a ball, at all levels. A strike that is low and away is nearly unhittable for average, but 4 inches low and 4 inches off called a strike is poor umpiring.
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BALL.
BALL. fast forward to 7th inning BALL. BALL. any questions?
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Every coach that knows me knows where my strike zone is (and the ones that don't know me have 7 to 9 innings to figure it out). I have a reputation for my consistent zone. My reputation as an umpire is very important to me. My zone doesn't change from game to game; F1 to F1; or pitch to pitch. The coaches know that I won't open my zone up because their F1's are having a bad day. I'll call balls until they get tired of hearing it and put someone in that can throw. |
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