Preventative Umpiring

[DG]

Originally Posted by njdevs00cup

What do you do which falls under the category of preventative umpiring?

Today, batter is crowding the plate severely Catcher asks do I see it, I say sure. I hear the defensive coach ask the catcher how close the batter is to the plate. He says he is taking away the inside (I think how is this possible, the corner is where it is). Finally, after several close inside pitches I tell the batter, if you get hit by a pitch in the strike zone it's going to be called a strike and you will not be going to 1B.

It didn't help. He kept crowding and didn't get hit, but if he had I would have told the complaining manager (after I called a strike) that I had told his batter what would happen.