Are pitchers required to stay within the 24” lines?

[Top_Notch]

My daughter was called for this in high school. Lines weren't even drawn. smh

 

[RADcatcher]

The pitching rubber itself is a good visual for the plate umpire.

 

[Rolling Hard]

How are you supposed to throw a good angled gyroball (screwball) and stay in the lane?

 

[Comp]

Not true…..sorry someone has mis lead you.

Not true? You may want to read the NCAA rules.

From page 21 of NCAA rules:
Pitcher’s lane 8-foot lines drawn within the outer edges of the pitcher’s plate toward the inside edges of the inside front corners of the batter’s boxes; 24 inches wide at the pitcher’s plate and 25 inches wide where it intersects the pitcher’s circle

 

[RADcatcher]

As I tell people all the time, never try to apply any other ruleset to NCAA, or NCAA to any other ruleset. There are far more differences than there are similarities.

Yep, Absolutely there are variances in the different rule sets of softball venues. Inconsistency across the board.

Perhaps you could post a screenshot of the information you are sharing to your discussion point. Instead of writing it yourself. That helps clarify for people it's not just someone's own words rather it's in the rule sets. I have not been able to download that PDF file otherwise I would have done it myself. Again I have never read Dimensions that indicated a cone shape. Does not mean it isn't so.

 

[inumpire]

Not true? You may want to read the NCAA rules.

From page 21 of NCAA rules:
Pitcher’s lane 8-foot lines drawn within the outer edges of the pitcher’s plate toward the inside edges of the inside front corners of the batter’s boxes; 24 inches wide at the pitcher’s plate and 25 inches wide where it intersects the pitcher’s circle

Just looked at the NCAA field diagram, and I stand corrected. You are correct. But if you look at the diagram. The lines are on the inside of the width of the pitcher plate and go at an angle to be 25” when they meet the circle. Without doing math, I am going to go with the when you look at them, and I have thousands of time, the naked eye will not detect that. And would bet more than 90% of fields they are drawn straight…you are talking about a minuscule angle…..the NCAA has a whole lot more to worry about then this for sure.

 

[Bernie]

Just looked at the NCAA field diagram, and I stand corrected. You are correct. But if you look at the diagram. The lines are on the inside of the width of the pitcher plate and go at an angle to be 25” when they meet the circle. Without doing math, I am going to go with the when you look at them, and I have thousands of time, the naked eye will not detect that. And would bet more than 90% of fields they are drawn straight…you are talking about a minuscule angle…..the NCAA has a whole lot more to worry about then this for sure.

You lost that one. Stop digging.


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[The Man In Blue]

Not true…..sorry someone has mis lead you.

To be fair to @inumpire , it seems most rulebooks are full of rules that they don't actually mean what they say or the organization doesn't actually want enforced.

 

[softballphreak]

Does anyone know the logic behind the rule?

 

[RADcatcher]

To be fair to @inumpire , it seems most rulebooks are full of rules that they don't actually mean what they say or the organization doesn't actually want enforced.

And umpires interpret those rules and what they see differently and so...
we get different versions of how rules are applied.