Teaching the strike zone

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by Uncle George

CTBLU, on the other hand, if the coach of the pitcher see's it go through the strike zone and the ball short-hops the catcher, he's gonna give you @*ll as well! For me, coach comes out and complains, I just say, ball through the zone first, it's a strike. Once I've set the ground rules, I have no more problems as long as I continue to call it that way! I'm not affraid of running a coach. I give him his say, I give him mine and we play on. The coach knows what'll happen if he continues to %)$ch about balls and strikes! He's gone. It's as simple as that.

All I'm saying ... either sport ... is that unless you are doing kiddos, that if the pitch hits the ground and you THOUGHT it went through the zone, it probably didn't. Film yourself if you disagree - you'll be surprised. I've seen great changes in softball, and I've seen wicked cutters in baseball...

But if the pitch nicked the strikezone, even at the very bottom of the zone, and the very front of the plate, and managed to, within 2 feet, hit the ground in front of the catcher, it would be going in a direction that is nearly impossible to get a ball to go in.