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I'm pretty sure the #1 reason is to put pressure on the pitcher and that this is #2. And what size guys I mean girls do you have on your team that swing a 36" bat?
maybe...but if the ump would call the inside river as much as they call the outside river girls would back away from the plate in a hurry about the third girl that got rung up as they were bailing out of the batters box and the girls would figure out that unless they want to keep striking out they need to back up so they can hit that inside pitch. The 36in bat was a joke point being that given the way some umps call the zone a girl standing normally in the box can't make contact with a ball brushing the white of the opposite batters box that is called a strike by the umpire.
While it does put pressure on the pitcher the real pressure is coming from the ump most of the time because a strike just catching the inside of the plate or the inside river is not going to get called a strike so there is usually not much use pitching there anyway. So the strike zone and batters box and pitches all get moved over 4 to 6 inches and we just play on....