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I have two questions.
During my scrimmage game yesterday, I was hit in the arm (left)and blue gave me a strike saying my arm was in the strike zone. I am right handed batter. What's the call?

My dad has been keeping score for years with a program called Scorepad. Parents say he is too hard for high school players. On certain plays, he will give a runner a defensive indifference instead of a stolen base. He also will score errors even if a fielder doesn't touch the ball. He says that if the play is a routine one, it should be made. His scoring has made some parents upset but he still looks forward to it every year.
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If your arm was in the zone when it was struck then it's a dead ball and a strike.
As to your father's scoring, many times it is like umpiring, in his judgement, it is an error. I've never heard defensive indifference but if I understand what you are saying then he is correct there too. I understand it to be a base advancemnet by a runner that the defense decides to just let go either because of other runners. There are guys here that know a lot more about scoring than I do so maybe they can answer.
Defensive indifference regarding stolen bases can be very subjective. They could make it real simple if they said that any time a pitcher is throwing from the stretch, it would automatically be credited as a stolen base regardless of whether the catcher threw the ball. After all, if the defense were so indifferent to the runner, why would they bother to hold him on?

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