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Someone once explained to me the strike zone as this... He said...
Imagine the worlds most fragile piece of glass... This piece of glass begins at the bottom of the letters of the batter and goes to the bottom of the knees... He said it also goes from black to black of the plate...
He said that if this extremely fragile piece of glass is touched by one thread of the ball, the glass will break. Not the whole ball, not half the ball, ANY PART of the ball touches the glass, the glass breaks.
He said if the glass breaks, this is a STRIKE.
My question... is this true? What is the strike zone...
It seems that some umpires want the whole ball to be on the plate, while others don't give anything above the belt... I hate to sit in my lawn chair groaning about balls and strikes when I am not entirely sure I know what the strike zone is...
Anybody?
Imagine the worlds most fragile piece of glass... This piece of glass begins at the bottom of the letters of the batter and goes to the bottom of the knees... He said it also goes from black to black of the plate...
He said that if this extremely fragile piece of glass is touched by one thread of the ball, the glass will break. Not the whole ball, not half the ball, ANY PART of the ball touches the glass, the glass breaks.
He said if the glass breaks, this is a STRIKE.
My question... is this true? What is the strike zone...
It seems that some umpires want the whole ball to be on the plate, while others don't give anything above the belt... I hate to sit in my lawn chair groaning about balls and strikes when I am not entirely sure I know what the strike zone is...
Anybody?