Check out this "controversy"

[Nigel Tufnel]

I tried to get my shot in on Rich...but you submarined me...

We could be here all day again talking about pitch location. Bottom line is we alll miss a few here and there...

I say we gang up on Finnerty...for leaving an open ended post...

Screw you Finnerty

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Nigel Tufnel

I tried to get my shot in on Rich...but you submarined me...

We could be here all day again talking about pitch location. Bottom line is we alll miss a few here and there...

I say we gang up on Finnerty...for leaving an open ended post...

Screw you Finnerty

Jeez, I hadn't even posted on this thread.

My last plate job, BTW, was a regional playoff game on Tuesday. 1:25, run rule. The only *****ing I heard from the stands was from the home (winning) parents who thought my zone was too big. Go figure.

I lived in Seattle for a year - do I know you? I had season tickets (20 games or so plan )the year they closed down the Kingdome and opened Safeco Field. My best memory of baseball in Seattle was actually the summer before when I moved up there -- Piniella threw one of the all-time Lou tantrums at the Kingdome - bases, dirt kicking, cap kicking, and all...

[JR12]

Is the ball over the plate, when this pic is snapped?

[cc6]

Clearly looked below the knees in the video. Catcher did a great job of framing it, but that doesn't change the pitch's location when it crossed the plate. The fact that it is a crucial situation does not mean one should change a ball into a strike. It's a legit call if he had been calling it that low all game.

[SethPDX]

What a WOBW that column was. What's the point, it should be 300* ?

[DonInKansas]

According to the silly line drawn, it's at the hollow of the knee below the kneecap. I've got a strike here all day long. Hit the damn ball; that's what you get paid for and what everyone's there to see you do.

[cc6]

Originally Posted by DonInKansas

According to the silly line drawn, it's at the hollow of the knee below the kneecap. I've got a strike here all day long. Hit the damn ball; that's what you get paid for and what everyone's there to see you do.

Let's remember that the knee is actually 5 or 6 inches in length if you include the hollow beneath the knee. The hollow is borderline unhittable in my opinion. A lot of curveballs and splitters pass the hallow at the plate but end up in the dirt- what are you going to call that pitch? The other potential problem with calling the hallow is that it could lead to more wild pitches.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by cc6

The hollow is borderline unhittable in my opinion.

That's why pitchers try to throw there.

A lot of curveballs and splitters pass the hallow at the plate but end up in the dirt- what are you going to call that pitch?

Ball, probably

The other potential problem with calling the hallow is that it could lead to more wild pitches.

???

[DonInKansas]

Originally Posted by cc6

Let's remember that the knee is actually 5 or 6 inches in length if you include the hollow beneath the knee. The hollow is borderline unhittable in my opinion. A lot of curveballs and splitters pass the hallow at the plate but end up in the dirt- what are you going to call that pitch? The other potential problem with calling the hallow is that it could lead to more wild pitches.

Not if he moves up in the box. A pitch on the inside black is borderline unhittable for a guy crowding the plate; you gonna ball that pitch too? I get every strike I can, and the pitch at the bottom of the knee, especially on the outside corner, is my favorite pitch bar none when a guy's throwing it consistently.