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Screwball
- Dec 18, 2014
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My daughter was called for this in high school. Lines weren't even drawn. smh
Not true…..sorry someone has mis lead you.
Yep, Absolutely there are variances in the different rule sets of softball venues. Inconsistency across the board.As I tell people all the time, never try to apply any other ruleset to NCAA, or NCAA to any other ruleset. There are far more differences than there are similarities.
Just looked at the NCAA field diagram, and I stand corrected. You are correct. But if you look at the diagram. The lines are on the inside of the width of the pitcher plate and go at an angle to be 25” when they meet the circle. Without doing math, I am going to go with the when you look at them, and I have thousands of time, the naked eye will not detect that. And would bet more than 90% of fields they are drawn straight…you are talking about a minuscule angle…..the NCAA has a whole lot more to worry about then this for sure.Not true? You may want to read the NCAA rules.
From page 21 of NCAA rules:
Pitcher’s lane 8-foot lines drawn within the outer edges of the pitcher’s plate toward the inside edges of the inside front corners of the batter’s boxes; 24 inches wide at the pitcher’s plate and 25 inches wide where it intersects the pitcher’s circle
Just looked at the NCAA field diagram, and I stand corrected. You are correct. But if you look at the diagram. The lines are on the inside of the width of the pitcher plate and go at an angle to be 25” when they meet the circle. Without doing math, I am going to go with the when you look at them, and I have thousands of time, the naked eye will not detect that. And would bet more than 90% of fields they are drawn straight…you are talking about a minuscule angle…..the NCAA has a whole lot more to worry about then this for sure.
Not true…..sorry someone has mis lead you.
And umpires interpret those rules and what they see differently and so...To be fair to @inumpire , it seems most rulebooks are full of rules that they don't actually mean what they say or the organization doesn't actually want enforced.