IMO, she pulled this pitch back into the zone. Who knows whether that influenced the call or not.
1. The middle of her body is aligned with the middle of home plate.
2. The pitch is clearly in the other batters box and outside of my dd's right shoulder.
3. My dd does not try to receive the ball with a barred arm nor does she lean so far to her right in order to get her right shoulder behind the ball.....considered a weak receiving position in this thread because her arm is not barred nor is her body and head behind her arm. She blows this theory out of the water.
4. She does not pull the pitch into the zone. She catches the outside of the ball and sticks the pitch with a push force. It is not a subtle move. She manipulates the ball a good 12 inches or more plus brought it down a bit, but since she remained quiet, and utilized soft hands with a strong arm position, she made the pitch look believable to the umpire, much more believable than if she had shifted her body to the right by a foot or more and received the pitch with a barred arm.