Strike zone

[buckweat]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I think it depends on your definition of "pass through." That is, is the strike zone a two-dimensional plane and if the ball hits the plane at teh front of the plate (ignoring any comments about whether it's the plate or the front knee, or ... that sets the location), it's a strike? Or, is it a three-dimensional objenct and the ball must be in the zone both at the front and the back of the object?

It can’t be 2 dimensional because its defined as 3. There’s a horizontal aspect that never changes, width. A vertical aspect, knee to above the belt that changes from batter to batter, and depth aspect that never changes, “that area over home plate.

If you interpret “passes through any part of the strike zone” as meaning only front to back, I think your interpretation is way wrong. Would a ball dropped from straight over the plate and allowed to hit the center of the plate, have passed “through the zone”?

Of course it would, but from the sounds of things, very few would call it a strike.