College strike zone, Sheeeesh

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From Referee Magazine - January 2020
"So, we were watching her throw drop balls and watching catchers "funnel it" and I was telling myself those are going to be low. We set up a pitching machine with a string at knee level and set the machine to throw drop balls. I actually got back and caught them, and I was struggling to catch the drop balls and make them look like strikes. It was clearly a strike but being caught below the shin guards of the catcher. One side is going to go crazy if you call that a strike and one side is going to go crazy if you don't call it a strike. The reality of it is it's a strike. We did it 50 times. This was a machine replicating it over and over. We brought 35 campers through it. It was a drill we ran in a camp that absolutely changed the way I think about the catcher receiving the ball....how something in a drill can change the way you think about things."

NCAA Women's College World Series umpire Tom Meyer

This is one of the arguments for catching with one knee down...

 

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Watching several D2 games in person and a daughter that has pitched in some of them what I have seen is it has to be half a ball on the plate and mid thigh to just above the belly button. Home runs sell tickets.


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