Your Zone

[canadaump6]

Oh I had a good one in my second year umpiring. I noticed that the guy who was doing the plate missed a few pitches that were clearly over the outside part of the plate. Called them a ball when they were clearly a strike. Later that game, I come to him between innings, and in the course of our conversation he casually mentions that "the strikezone is not defined by the plate, it is defined by how far from the plate the batter is standing". So a pitch over the outside corner would be a ball with him if the hitter was standing almost out of the box, but if he was crowding the plate that pitch would be a strike.