how many have seen blue make this call -

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and it's a good call ----girl stands like a statue on a sloooow change up that hits her and drops the bat and heads to 1st , blue called her back for making no attempt to move. ? To her credit she got a hit, but at least blue called her back to the box. ? ?MD

 

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I've seen it twice and both times were at Spano Dome, they seem to have good umps there.

 

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have seen it once. many more times have seen batters hit by a strike because the batter is out of the batters box. one game two weeks ago a hitter actually had her toes on the black ot the plate.

 

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Yeah I think a pitch that nipped a girls helmet in that same game was a strike because see ducked her head in towards the plate, and was leaning foward . MD

 

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Just to add fodder for discussion. The girl with toes on the black of the plate could still be okay (as in in the box). Let's see, the box is 6 inches from the plate and the black is not part of the plate (strikezone), then an average size girl with say a 9 inch or so shoe would still have part of her foot in the box and thus still be legal.

 

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I'll tell you what! I have seen this called once and the umpire actually got this one wrong. My leadoff batter is up and here comes that slow change. She waits on it and watches it the whole way never giving up on it and then as it falls short, hits the dirt.. the batter jumps but the ball bounces up and hits her.. He calls her back and says she didn't try to get out of the way.. Now granted she watched it all the way to the dirt, but how do you jump and then say she didn't try to get out of the way..

I do like to see this called the right way though as I have seen my share of good hitters take the change on the leg and be rewarded first base, without moving..

 

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Last year, I made this call (kept hit batter in box) four times in a span of around 100 games. That was a little more than usual, and I would say that in the past I might call it twice a season. One was in girl's fastpitch, one was men's fastpitch and two were in high school baseball.

Only one of them was on a batter that stood like a statue in the box and got hit by a really slow pitch. That one dropped down and got the batter in the foot. Absolutely no effort to move was made at all. That was in the girl's fastpitch game.

The other three were a little different- batters who made some token movement away from the pitch, but purposely (in my opinion!) stuck an elbow out to allow the pitch to hit them. Surprisingly, I didn't get any argument on any of those- just kind of a sheepish look from the batter, sort of like, "You caught me!".

 

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I have seen what was described and I applaud the blues that make this type of call. On the other hand, I have seen some similiar (sic) calls that left me scratching my head. For example, in a tourney last year, a pitcher threw a change up and it hit in front of the plate and it must have hit a pebble since it took a 45 degree hop and hit the batter. The umpire did not award the base. When I asked why not... he told me that even though it took a funny hop my batter had time to get out of the way. When my batter saw the pitch was going to be in the dirt, she did not pay any attention to the pitch and it shocked her that she was hit.

What can I say... since she hit a triple on the next pitch. What is the saying about falling into a pile - and coming up smelling like roses?