Ariz-Wash out of box

[bkbjones]

Originally Posted by greymule

The announcer looked at the replay and explained that though the batter's foot was not on the ground out of the box when she made contact, "the rule says that she can't break the plane of the batter's box."

Maybe the announcer is, say, 160 years old. Back in the beginning, it WAS a line and not a box for the batter. Batter's box has been around longer than Christy Matthewson's mother.

These announcers disgust me. They need to put people in the booth that know the GAME, not just a play-by-play person who is a female and a player whose specialty is one particular positon and whose knowledge of the game is no more general than 90% of the people on this board.