Yep. Catch 22The "slot" position set up (between the batter and the plate) that an umpire takes can make the outside corner a difficult pitch to call accurately for some.
Yep. Catch 22The "slot" position set up (between the batter and the plate) that an umpire takes can make the outside corner a difficult pitch to call accurately for some.
I don't know if this has been mentioned or not but there is a difference between the NCAA high strike and other sanctions. If a up ball is across or touching the sternum then it is high in the NCAA (as explained to me by a guy who has done college softball for a couple of decades). An up ball at the arm pit in high school is a strike. I believe that is the same in ASA, NSA ...
In the WCWS, the one troubling thing is that the low ball showed in the K-Zone numerous times and was called a ball.
I don't know if this has been mentioned or not but there is a difference between the NCAA high strike and other sanctions. If a up ball is across or touching the sternum then it is high in the NCAA (as explained to me by a guy who has done college softball for a couple of decades). An up ball at the arm pit in high school is a strike. I believe that is the same in ASA, NSA ...