CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
This purports to be the official MLB rule (https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/mlb/ub08blsefk8wkkd2oemz.pdf )This isn't true. You can't lay on the ground and take a walk every time. SZ only changes for height of player. And that box on the screen is adjusted to each batter's height.
Is this really the rule? It looks like it, but I honestly don't know. This is obviously extremely vague. Check out the diagram at Appendix 5. You've first got to find the midpoint between the top of the batter's shoulders and the top of his uniform pants. This means that the strike zone changes if the batter hikes his pants up between pitches. Then, you've got to find "the hollow beneath the kneecap." If you want to know WTF that is, look at the diagram in Appendix 5. This determination is all made when the batter is in his stance, prepared to swing. This means the official or "true" strike zone changes not only from batter to batter, but can also change between pitches to a batter if he alters his stance.The STRIKE ZONE is that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap. The Strike Zone shall be determined from the batter’s stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball. (For diagram of STRIKE ZONE see Appendix 5.)
As terrible as this rule is, it is nonetheless one of the cool things about baseball.
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