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Mon Oct 04, 2004, 08:46am
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Rarely do 10U's. Will only do them on timed games.
Got caught yesterday when one of the blues scheduled for the championship game had to leave. (My bad, cause I had just finished doing 14U championship and should have been in my car on the way home instead of chatting with an old friend about this and that.) I was still dressed for plate, and it was the plate umpire that had left. I agreed to do the game. After a couple of innings and lots of high and low pitches, of which I am calling balls, one of the coaches from the home team comes over and says, "Blue, you have to expand the strike zone in 10U. The rule is to go higher and lower. If you don't, we will be here all day."  DUH.Game is 1:05 finish. May be wrong, but I do not alter my zone for 10U when I do have to call that age. Main reason most coaches that know me, don't want me on 10U's.
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glen _______________________________ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain. 
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Mon Oct 04, 2004, 09:05am
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Almost forgot this.
Same game. One of the walked batters for visitors steals 2B. Ball is thrown into centerfield. R1 continues all the way home. While she is standing on HP, F2 finally has the ball and tags the runner. I call time, send R1 back to 2B. See both home and visitors heading for the plate. Home team coach reaches HP before visitors coach. Partner comes up and pulls visitors coach to the side. Home team coach: "Blue, that runner is out, she was tagged out beyond the base she was entitled." "Wrong coach, she was tagged out standing on the base. Therefore, she is sent back to the base she was entitled." Coach, "I have never heard of such a rule. The is one base, if they go beyond that base and are tagged they are out." Please re-read the rule. Visitor's coach standing off with partner just a grinning, asked why I sent runner back to 2B and not 3rd? Had to go through the whole routine again. No problem, clock was on.
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glen _______________________________ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain.
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Mon Oct 04, 2004, 09:06am
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Glen,
I agree on quality ball like "A" or "B" travel and have never had any problems, unless I call blow the bottom of knee or much above the waist. Rec Ball is a different story, I use the entire strike zone as described in the book. Keep'em swinging not walking
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