plate mechanic

left coast

pdxblue wrote
You adjust your zone, evenly, for both teams!

My interpretation that seems to work is to go a tad higher and wider. Not much, just a couple of inches.

Those other standards you listed are for regular games, NOT lopsided games. But in the lopsided game, you need to expand a bit to keep things going.

We have a lot of D III around here, and the pitching isn't so hot, so the games tend to have a LOT of runs. 🙁 Anyway, I have found that is blowouts, neither coach seems to mind if you expand your zone a little bit, as long as it goes both ways.

When the team who is behind puts up 6 runs in the seventh inning, do you then "adjust" it back in for the 8th and 9th innings?

SanDiegoSteve

left coast wrote
When the team who is behind puts up 6 runs in the seventh inning, do you then "adjust" it back in for the 8th and 9th innings?

Perhaps you should ask the person(s) who wrote the NCAA Evaluation Standards, since he/she/they wrote this as one of the criteria:

"Has a grasp of how the zone can be adjusted in lopsided game."

I don't think that anybody considers a 6 run deficit to be "lopsided." Lopsided is usually 10 runs or more behind.

And maybe lawump had a big strike zone to start with, and couldn't have widened it out more than it already was. How about it, lawump?🙂

CJN

SanDiegoSteve wrote
Perhaps you should ask the person(s) who wrote the NCAA Evaluation Standards, since he/she/they wrote this as one of the criteria:

"Has a grasp of how the zone can be adjusted in lopsided game."

I don't think that anybody considers a 6 run deficit to be "lopsided." Lopsided is usually 10 runs or more behind.

And maybe lawump had a big strike zone to start with, and couldn't have widened it out more than it already was. How about it, lawump?🙂

I think left coast was tralking about a game where a team was behind by 10 or 12 and then they score six runs in the seventh are you going to adjust your zone back for the eighth or ninth inning?

LMan

Once you widen, you cannot go back. Its done.

pdxblue

Rich Fronheiser wrote
What's a local evaluator? I'm so glad I don't have to put up with someone consistently second-guessing my officiating.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm... I am not sure how to take that statement. Evaluators don't "second guess" MY officiating. I suppose somebody that is not secure in the job they are doing could feel that way by some of their comments though.

SanDiegoSteve

SanDiegoSteve wrote
Watching the Astros/Twins game right now, and noticing three things about HP umpire Jeff Kellogg:

1) he turns his head to indicate location in/out on borderline pitches, which is what I do also.

2) he tucks his slot hand behind his thigh, which is what I do also.

3) he puts his other hand on the back of the catcher, which I have never, ever, done.

And watching the Padres/Mariners game tonight, I noticed Greg Gibson putting his hands all over the catchers' backs, but other than that, his mechanics were spot on.

What's the deal with the hands on the catchers? I never understood the attraction. Is it to keep from losing balance? Does anybody out there do this? We heard from all the former catchers who seem pretty grossed out by it. Inquiring minds want to know!

lawump

SanDiegoSteve wrote
Perhaps you should ask the person(s) who wrote the NCAA Evaluation Standards, since he/she/they wrote this as one of the criteria:

"Has a grasp of how the zone can be adjusted in lopsided game."

I don't think that anybody considers a 6 run deficit to be "lopsided." Lopsided is usually 10 runs or more behind.

And maybe lawump had a big strike zone to start with, and couldn't have widened it out more than it already was. How about it, lawump?🙂

Well, after one of my minor league games in 1997...as I was taking a shower, my Dad was waiting for me outside our locker room, and he started talking to one of the team's pitching coaches, Bob Stanley.

After Bob asked my Dad who he was with (and my dad said the umpire), Bob cracked a joke. He said, "If your son was umpiring 10 years ago, I'd still be in the major leagues!"😃

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