Pitching strategy with small strike zone

[Jeffrey]

Different kind of call but still visible from the backstop.

Wow - that must've been a quick game LOL

 

[Strike2]

The other idea is just to walk the really good hitters and then blow it past the rest.

This...but you'd better get the outs.

 

[mmeece]

Change speeds twice as much as normal. Try to get ahead early as best you can and go for some cheap outs with movement pitches outside the zone and change ups in the dirt.

 

[sluggers]

Per my DD:

Whatever the strike zone the umpire uses, there is an inside pitch and there is an outside pitch. You find the edges of the umpire's zone, whatever it may be, and pitch to those edges.

 

[wheresmycar]

You would need a camera in the outfield with a big zoom....elevated.

No need to elevate when using high levels of zoom. You can shoot through the fence, and the fence disappears from the view.

 

[BrianTx01]

camera mounted on backstop, just about directly behind LHB? pretty easy to see there what the umpires zone is like.

and for comparison get video, same exact location, of an umpire with what you and other coaches consider a decent strike zone.

That location will not show height. When you have watched as much softball as I can you can be sitting along the fence and

Per my DD:

Whatever the strike zone the umpire uses, there is an inside pitch and there is an outside pitch. You find the edges of the umpire's zone, whatever it may be, and pitch to those edges.

In some cases the edge is the middle of the plate....both of them.

 

[bmakj]

That location will not show height. When you have watched as much softball as I can you can be sitting along the fence and
In some cases the edge is the middle of the plate....both of them.

if you mount camera about waist high, I think that will pretty easily show high or low, heck, the times I have video'ed from shoulder high, in replay you could generally tell high or low (remember, we are talking about in theory truly egregious strike zone, not trying to define if lacs grazed the zone)

 

[jdint]

Different kind of call but still visible from the backstop.

Great frame by that catcher.

 

[BrianTx01]

I honestly think that MLB TV broadcasts are responsible for the shrinking strikezone. This is just ridiculous.

 

[BrianTx01]

Then if you combine it with a tight horizontal zone you get this. Which is dangerous to pitchers. Especially for fastpitch with the short pitching distance. Well maybe not dangerous but at least uncomfortable. Getting drilled in the lower leg by a line drive is not fun. Every time my DD has got hit it was on a tight zone umpire.