crowding the plate......

[chuckfan1]

Ok heres another one, same tourney, Im BU still, earlier game.
--4th game of the day on this field. Games running tight, so little or no time in between to re-do fields. They rake it a bit, and thats it, play ball. Hence, no lines in batters box. Team on defense getting shut out 5-0, and chirping about my PUs zone. Lefty comes up, really crowds the plate. Top half of body,leaning over zone a bit. Catcher tells my buddy that the batter is out of the box. Partner tells him no. Catcher tells him hes standing on the plate and he cant do that. Partner tells F2 theres no rule that says he cant. (Batter did have part of his foot touching what probably would have been batters box, and foot right up against the plate). And my partner would have called anything that would have resulted from all this. Batter getting hit while in the zone, out of the box, etc. So, what happens? High-inside pitch, batter does try to get out of the way, and gets doinked. Defensive coach comes out, and tells partner that batter cant "lean over the plate". Partner says, no such rule exsists. Defensive coach contines along this line for awhile to no avail. Same guy comes up again later, and crowds the plate again. Coach come out to question, doesnt get any further, and says just put him on.
Anybody??