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The strike zone is a volume of space, a vertical right pentagonal prism. Its sides are vertical planes extending up from the edges of home plate.The official rules of Major League Baseball, define the top of the strike zone as the midpoint between the top of the batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the bottom of the strike zone is at the hollow beneath the kneecap, both ...
The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike was the eighth and longest work stoppage in Major League Baseball (MLB) history, as well as the fourth in-season work stoppage in 22 years. [1] The strike began on August 12, 1994, and resulted in the remainder of that season, including the postseason and the World Series, being canceled.
The 1990 Major League Baseball lockout, which cancelled no games but postponed 1990's opening day to April 9 [2][3] The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, which cancelled 938 games and the entire 1994 postseason, including the 1994 World Series [2][3][5] The 2021–22 Major League Baseball lockout, which cancelled no games but postponed ...
The education of robot umpires has been complicated by an open secret in baseball for the past 150 years: The strike zone called on the field doesn’t match the one mapped out in the rule book.
In 1961, the 162-game schedule was adopted by MLB. In 1969, the pitcher's mound dropped five inches and the strike zone reduced: from the armpits to the top of the knees. In 1973, the American League adopted the designated hitter rule. This was probably the most controversial rule change in baseball's history and is still subject to lively debate.
Hit by pitch. In baseball, hit by pitch (HBP) is an event in which a batter or his clothing or equipment (other than his bat) is struck directly by a pitch from the pitcher; the batter is called a hit batsman (HB). A hit batsman is awarded first base, provided that (in the plate umpire 's judgment) he made an honest effort to avoid the pitch ...
Major League Baseball is ramping up its testing of an automated strike zone.
A baseball pitched with the intent to break out of the strike zone that fails to break and ends up hanging in the strike zone; an unintentional slow fastball with side spin resembling a fixed-axis spinning cement mixer, which does not translate.