Open up the zone based upon score?

[mcrowder]

Unless both coaches came to me asking for something like that in a blowout, there's no circumstance where I'd change the zone DURING a game.

Now I AM a proponent of the slightly wider strikezone at lower levels, especially 10U (I even tell them at the plate conference, in hopes that I don't hear any more "Don't swing unless it's perfect" on 3-1 counts, etc).

But whereever that strikezone is at the beginning of the game, I do my best to keep it there at the end.