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Title: SLOW pitch plate


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SLOW pitch plate
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Slow Pitch plate
CONSISTENCY
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Slow Pitch plate
INTENSITY
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Slow Pitch plate
BELIEVABILTY
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Slow Pitch plate
INTENSITY
BELIEVABILTY
CONSISTENCY
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Slow Pitch PLATE
  • WHAT IS A SLOW PITCH SOFTBALL STRIKE
  • Must have a legal arc
  • Minimum 6-feet from the ground
  • Maximum 12-feet from the ground
  • Must be delivered underhand at a moderate speed
  • Is judged when it crosses the plate
  • Must be a pitched ball that passes through the
    strike zone which is that space over any part of
    home plate between the batters back shoulder and
    their front knee when the batter assumes their
    natural batting stance

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Slow Pitch plate
  • STANCE
  • FEET
  • BACK
  • SHOULDERS
  • EYES

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Slow Pitch plate
  • HEEL AND TOE STANCE
  • DROP TO SET POSITION WHEN LEGAL
  • TRACK THE BALL FROM THE PITCHERS HAND TO THE
    CATCHERS GLOVE/MITT
  • TIMING
  • AVOID TOO CLOSE / TOO FAR
  • AVOID MOVING ON PITCH
  • CONSISTENCY

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Slow Pitch Softball Strike
BACK SHOULDER
BACK SHOULDER
Some part of alegally pitchedball must
passthrough thiszone to becalled a strike.
KNEES
STRIKE
Remember that the position of a batterin the
batters box makes no difference.The plate and
batters natural stance atthe plate are the
controlling factors.
A pitched ball that touches homeplate and is not
struck at is always a ball.
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ILLEGAL PITCH IN SLOW PITCH
CALL IT THE MOMENT IT BECOMES ILLEGAL
  • SIX BASIC FEATURES TO LOOK FOR
  • CONTACT WITH PITCHERS PLATE, FOOT PLACEMENT.
  • STOPBall in front of body,Release time
  • START OF PITCH
  • WIND UPMotion.Hip.No stop or reversal.Not
    between legs.Quick pitch.
  • ARC.
  • STEP.

WHO CALLS
PENALTY
SIGNAL
NULLIFIEDIF
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Slow Pitch plate
  • SLOW PITCH WITH STEALING
  • PLATE UMPIRE MAKES THE CALL AT 3B
  • DEAD BALL
  • IF THE BALL HITS THE GROUND BEFORE REACHING THE
    PLATE
  • IF THE BALL HITS THE PLATE
  • IF THE BALL CONTACTS THE BATTER

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It is or it isnt!
IT CAN ONLY BE A BALL OR A STRIKE And nobody
is perfect!
BALL
STRIKE
Slow Pitch
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