umps calling inside corner

Umps probably react more to the batter backing away from the inside pitch. Thinking it's inside?

ok maybe if the pitcher misses his spot and throws it in, but not when you set up inside and you catch the ball without moving your glove.

From my experiences I've noticed umps generally are more pitcher-friendly with the outside corner. I'm not sure why, but it seems most umps may even give a little more off the plate outside, but take a little off the plate when the pitch is inside. This problem seems to be decreasing the higher I go in baseball, but it still exists.

In our area it is ridiculous what pitchers get on the outside. Pitches literally in the other batter's box are called strikes. I'm not saying the umps are cheating anybody because our pitchers get some of those calls, too, but why can't they just call the strike zone as it is defined in the rule book instead of making up their own? The local umps are also very liberal with the high side of the zone, but the balls in the other box called stikes are what gets to me.

I see this at times with my son who is LHP as he will look to bust a RHH inside with 2-seamer where ball appears to be coming right at the hitter who will have a tendency to bail out yet ball will tail back over inside corner but ump gets distracted by hitter jumping out. Similar frustration when umps calls a strike a ball because the catcher fumbles it.

This is why the C position is so important.
An ok C can make a very good pitching staff look ordinary at times.

Good pitchers learn to adapt to the umpires zonne as do good hitters

I have also noticed that umpires will sometimes call an inside curve a strike (that is GOOD). Why not the fastball.

TRhit, i agree.

Just yesterday I was up to bat and the catcher slid on his knees to get the pitch and it was still a strike on me. Then I go out and pitch and didn't get the call. Frusturating.

My coach says that unfortunately in our league, the umpire slides over to be directly behind the catcher instead of staying directly over the plate. No matter how much the coaches talk to the blues, they don't change their methods. If I creep to the outside, the ump creeps, too. So he misses seeing the ball going over the plate..instead he sees it where it landed.