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That's not the way the strike zone works. The batter's batting stance doesn't matter at all when calling strikes.
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well, since the K zone is defined as an anatomical area from the armpits (now days ‘chest’) to the midpoint of the knees … when you crouch in the batter’s box it certainly does matter!
anyone ever heard of Eddie Gaedel?
Little League coaches constantly send up the shortest batter, as pinch-hitter w/ exactly that instruction …. happens all the time
This kid thought he was Eddie Gaedel whose strike zone was said to be 1.5 inches.
To get to the story in the video below, you can skip to 1:10. This was before my time, but one of my favorite baseball stories when I was a kid, back when they played the game for fun and the fans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mm7U3PPY2w
Yes, I have heard of Eddie Gaedel…
Fuck that kid. The Umpire should have called a halt and told the batter to “Stand in the batters box.” Or just ejected the little shit for that stunt.
Not sorry, that kid didn’t show up to play baseball. Screw him.
He would have drawn a bean ball from Don Onstead, the pitcher on my little league team. Don would have smoked his ass.
May as well throw the beanball if the batter is gonna get a walk anyway.
Oh, I should elaborate. Long before junior hockey was popular in and around the Pacific Northwest, it was here due to the NORAD influence at McCord AFB. Practically the entire baseball team’s first love was playing hockey at Lakewood Ice Arena. We were known as from the Philadelphia Flyers philosophy. In fact our coach used to say: What kind of pussy takes that kind of shit off anyone when standing there with a piece of lumber in your hands. He also used to say: If you are that uncoordinated that you can’t take the puck away, see if you can manage to knock him off his skates and then at least you might have a chance of coming up’s with it.
The military kids tended to play a bit rougher than the others.
vid doesn’t show up for me
my comment was just about how the batter’s box changes w/ each batter, by height & stance.
& coaches do this all the time … & yes, it follows the rules …. maybe we should give everybody the same, autonomous strike zone, huh?
that way, if I’m only 5’3 & crouching, the strike zone is still above my head … yeah, that’s fair!
pitcher’s gotta pitch to the strike zone ….. Play Ball!
rules, rules, rules ….
https://files.leagueathletics.com/Text/Documents/8668/30309.pdf
if the kid has a more ‘normative’ stance but crouches as the ball is thrown from the pitcher, then the ump sound use the original stance.
like I said, the vid doesn’t show up for me, so I really don’t know
When Nolan Ryan was pitching in high school, many batters from opposing teams refused to bat against him because he was so damn intimidating with his speed.
Nolan Ryan opened a Costco size can of Whoop Ass on Robin Ventura as well.
I defined the strike zone.
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