quote:Originally posted by drfanman:quote:Originally posted by Jimmy03:quote:Originally posted by drfanman:
...but THEORETICALLY a pitch could cross the knees and hit the plate and be a strike.
I'd need video proof.
On average the knees are between 20 and 24 inches above the plate. A foward moving pitched ball that hit the front of the plate at that height and then dropped quickly and far enough to hit the plate before traveling the 17 inch length of the plate would have to break farther and faster than any ML breaking ball I've seen.
Still stuck on the physics....but your answer suggests that you agree the plate is part of the strike zone.
How on earth you ever came to that concluson is beyond me. However, allow me to correct your misguided misinterpretation of my post. I do not now and never have considered the plate to be part of the strike zone.