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Old 02-14-2006, 09:24 PM   #28
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Re: Digging Deep into Plate Discipline and Unlocking a Secret to Hitting

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Originally Posted by Cyclone792
It’s a 17 x 30-inch vertical space on a baseball field, and occupies only 510 square inches, but its magnitude of importance generally determines who wins and who doesn’t.
Not that the umps use it, but isn't the strike zone a three-dimensional space?

1988 - "The Strike Zone is that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the top of the knees. The Strike Zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball."

1996 - The Strike Zone is expanded on the lower end, moving from the top of the knees to the bottom of the knees.
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