⚾ 🥎 Ball or strike? You decide.

[1CrimsonTider]

 

[mando]

All about where the ball was when it came over the plate to me. It started out as a strike then dropped when the catcher caught it. Did it drop below the strike zone before or after going across the plate? Hard to tell from that angle.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

St.....rike

 

[Bamaclam]

I tell my son everyday...If he calls it a strike it is a strike.

 

[Davestwin]

I’ll tell you what my dad and too many coaches to remember always would say … “if it wasn’t a strike it was still too close to take with two strikes”.

 

[BamaFan334]

Looked like a strike to me.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

The catcher playing the blue, nice pull.

 

[alabama mike]

I cant see it in the tweet. I umpired baseball and softball for a number of years. When I had the pregame meeting with the coach's, I always told the head coach's to remember the old Sunday School song, deep and wide. The main thing for any umpire is to be consistent with the calls. If its a strike in the first inning, its a strike in the 7th.

 

[UAgrad93]

Too close to stand there and take with 2 strikes. I used to always tell my guys, with 2 strikes, you have to expand your zone a hair, up,down, inside, and outside. Don’t let the guy behind the plate decide for you. Fight it off until you can get a pitch you can handle.

 

[TerryP]

Fight it off until you can get a pitch you can handle.

Speaking of ... best at bat I saw this past weekend was Jenna Johnson taking a 14 pitch walk with nine foul balls.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Speaking of ... best at bat I saw this past weekend was Jenna Johnson taking a 14 pitch walk with nine foul balls.

On sacred ground here...
But...
Always wondered why....
Fouling a ball off....with 2 strikes...wasnt just a strike...and if already 2...wasnt a strike out..

Nobody should see more than 6 pitches....per at bat

 

[TerryP]

Nobody should see more than 6 pitches....per at bat

That's the average PtC for walks. It's five for strikeouts.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

That's the average PtC for walks. It's five for strikeouts.

I always thought somethings were..
.hard to figure...
Fouling off a pitch is a strike...unless you have 2 strikes..then its nothing...but a fouled off pitch....

Must have been conceived in congress

Have more strange oddities ....

 

[It Takes Eleven]

On sacred ground here...
But...
Always wondered why....
Fouling a ball off....with 2 strikes...wasnt just a strike...and if already 2...wasnt a strike out..

Nobody should see more than 6 pitches....per at bat

I’m sure I’ve told this story, but I was in Wisconsin for Graduate School of Banking a few summers around ‘99. Northern Independent League, Madison Black Wolf played at the tiny municipal stadium, operating on a shoestring. Had the girl pitcher from the old Silver Bullets, about a 65mph fastball, but all sorts of off speed junk. At the start of the game, they named a “beer batter” from the opposing team. If they struck out, beer was a buck from then through the bottom of the inning. Guy has an epic at bat, slapping all sorts of nasty stuff foul, it absolutely was at least a 15-pitch AB, crowd whipped into a frenzy. Batter finally watched a tailing pitch that started out of the zone…and ended up well out of the zone…and the ump got caught up in the moment and rung him up. Chaos ensues. Ump throws the batter, manager and first base coaches out. Equipment strewn all over the field, probably a half hour before another pitch was thrown…and we’re drinking dollar beer the whole time.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I’m sure I’ve told this story, but I was in Wisconsin for Graduate School of Banking a few summers around ‘99. Northern Independent League, Madison Black Wolf played at the tiny municipal stadium, operating on a shoestring. Had the girl pitcher from the old Silver Bullets, about a 65mph fastball, but all sorts of off speed junk. At the start of the game, they named a “beer batter” from the opposing team. If they struck out, beer was a buck from then through the bottom of the inning. Guy has an epic at bat, slapping all sorts of nasty stuff foul, it absolutely was at least a 15-pitch AB, crowd whipped into a frenzy. Batter finally watched a tailing pitch that started out of the zone…and ended up well out of the zone…and the ump got caught up in the moment and rung him up. Chaos ensues. Ump throws the batter, manager and first base coaches out. Equipment strewn all over the field, probably a half hour before another pitch was thrown…and we’re drinking dollar beer the whole time.

Not a fan at all of MLB....but love going to AA or AAA games for the atmoshphere and promotions like this......
Great Story