As specified by Diagram No. 2 of the Official Rules of Major League Baseball (OBR), each batter's box shall be four feet wide and six feet in length. The nearest edge of each box shall be located six inches laterally from the parallel edges of the 17" home plate, while each box shall be centered longitudinally at the junctions which form the plate's two obtuse, 135 degree angles. The catcher's box runs 43" wide and has a center that correlates and coincides with the center of home plate itself. The catcher's box shall have an end point exactly eight feet behind the lowest triangular point of home plate that contains the plate's lower right angle.
Chalk up an incorrect QOC for the grounds crew and a winning attempt by Cabrera. After the delay, the White Sox defeated the Tigers, 5-2.
Video: Umpires Delay Game to Fix Batter's Box
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It's amazing how tuned in the best players in the world are to their environment. How many other players would have noticed such a thing?
I guess an equivalent would be a pitcher feeling like the mound is too low (they would never say anything if it were too high).
And of course this would happen on Friday the 13th...
any thoughts on why layne is working on the rapuano crew in minnesota today?? and balkin'n bob was working with cousins in toronto last night?
Not sure. Also Holbrook worked with Darling's crew during the week and now Lance Barrett is with them. Missing this week are Angel Hernandez(since last Saturday), Dan Iassogna, Scott Barry(Both all week), Chad Fairchild(since Wednesday) and Mark Carlson (since Yesterday).
Is it possible that some of them are just taking an early vacation?
Perhaps i'm picking nits, but the boxes were not 'too small'. they were too far forward, toward the mound. The grounds crew uses a premanufactured template to draw the boxes. The template is one batter's box, used on each side of the plate. It is outfitted with a block of some sort that aligns with home plate when layed on the ground. Since the parallel edge of the plate is not centered about the dimension of the box (the non right angle is the center point), there are two blocks, one to align the right box and one to align the left. When placed on the ground, the forward block needs to be aligned. It appears that the template was erroneously aligned using the back block, pushing the boxes forward.
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