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Originally Posted by LMan

How do you reconcile (on that chart):

"Maintains the same strike zone throughout the game"

and

"Has a grasp of how the zone may be adjusted in a lopsided game"?

..in the same evaluation paragraph?

Well, if the game is not lopsided, and you maintain the same strike zone throughout the game, you have done well.

If the game is lopsided, and you adjusted your zone in a way that kept things moving along, you have done well.

Is this such a hard concept to understand? I don't get what part of that you don't understand. It seemed VERY obvious to me the first time I read it.

I don't know of ANY higher level (at least college level) umpires who DON'T adjust their zone to be a bit bigger in lopsided games. It is a perfectly acceptable practice, and is obviously endorsed by the NCAA.

I would be a fool to call a "rule book" strike zone in a game that is 20-3. I am expanding that zone to get out of their a bit quicker. Nobody is complaining!