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Text Cut: Trixie, Jacqueline, Kurumi, Leilani, Daisy, Amber, Michael, Alice, Keefer, Katie, Brant, Salander, Louisa, Emmaleigh, Chloe and Rex Quote:
Originally Posted by feltbeatslover22  "Is it Strike?" she asked biting her lip. No wait that didn't quite sound right... Quote:
Originally Posted by alohomora♥ Jacqueline raised her hand again. '' Well professor that's STRIKE. A strike is called if a batter swings at a pitch and misses, or if the pitch simply passes through the strike zone. The first 2 foul balls that are not caught count as first and second strike. A foul ball that is not caught can never be counted as a third strike. ''she sat down and listened to the other students. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Kurumi turned bright red in her seat as the professor took her drawing and showed it to the entire class. Had she known this was going to happen, she would have spent more time and maybe given the stick figures hats or something. Kurumi checked the hair and noticed a slight change in color and took several deep breaths and thought about watching golf to calm herself down. She looked back down at her notes for a moment to avoid the stares of her classmates before raising her hand to answer the professor's question. "When the ball is too high, too low, or too far to one side from home plate they yell ball. When it is within a certain range over home plate then yell strike." She was glad she had earned her house some points...but she still couldn't bear to look around at her classmates or her drawing that was now magnified in the front of the classroom. Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoom Leilani raised her hand warily. "Uhm, strike aaand..." Ph, what was the other one? "Foul ball?" Wait! But that was three words...??? *flail* Well like, "Or he could just not say anything." Yeah, hadn't she seen that one time? Yeah, she thought so. Then again... her memory wasn't always something to count upon... *flail* Siiigh. Baseball was confusing... And that was coming from the girl who's father watched more baseball than he did quidditch. Quote:
Originally Posted by springbaby
"That's a really picture Kurumi," Daisy said smiling at the Gryffindor. The all of a sudden, "Oh, oh, I know, " Diasy said practically jumping up and down. "He either would say strike or ball which is the equvialent to a foul ball." She was feeling so hyper all of a sudden.
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Originally Posted by Gryffindorgurl Amber smiled. This was so easy! "He could either yell strike or ball. Ball is when the ball doesn't go directly over the plate and strike is when it does." She fiddled with her quill, waiting for the next question from the professor. Quote:
Originally Posted by CreativeAllie18 Alice gently raised her hand to answer. "Does the Umpire usually call it as a strike or a ball?" Alice said, trying to remember back to the one or two games she had watched on tv. Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael White Now seeing that the professor was teaching a class on the basics of the game. So a bunch of kids could have ther first go at it. Not a bunch of muggles hosting one of those sport talk shows his dad listen too on tha radio, so he decides to not say any thing about a Balk/hit batter "Ball and strike" foul's where if the batter made contact Quote:
Originally Posted by hpluvr037 Keefer raised both of his hands into the air, just as always. "Professor, I believe that would be 'strike' if the ball was in the strike zone--that's the area over the plate that's under the batter's shoulders, but above the batter's knees. If the ball was outside that area, then the umpire will say 'ball.'" Quote:
Originally Posted by PureBlood64 "He might say Strike one, depending which strike it is or Ball if it goes to high or low or Foul Ball but normally they say foul ball if you hit the ball but goes out of the triangle that you are supposed to hit it in, and professor have you ever heard of soft ball and rounders? They are quite like baseball, just different rules" Katie said with a smile on her face. Quote:
Originally Posted by ☆Grrr..Meow☆ Brant was pleased how well Kurumi was doing he gave her a grin. Brant knew how to pick them thats for sure. "Great job Kurumi." he whispered to her. Then he raised his hand and said "If the ball goes faster then the batter swings his bat then the umpire will yell Out!, if its a foul ball meaning that its the pitchers fault the umpire would yell Ball. I think if theres enough Ball's called I think about three, then the player thats up to swing the beater bat thingy, gets to move to the first plate thingy?" Brant knew about Baseball but he wasn't an expert. Quote:
Originally Posted by Steelsheen "A Ball and Strike" he replied, lifting his hand. "a Batter is allowed 3 strikes before he's put out and 4 balls before he's allowed to Walk to 1st base." Quote:
Originally Posted by Magical Soul "He says 'Strike' and followed by a number. Which means that the batter is out, I guess." She answered after raising her hand. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley Rex raises his hand. "Sir, if the batter fails to hit the ball, it is a strike." Rex told him. " now, of course, if the batter hits the ball to the left or right of a white line marked on the field, right of the right field line, left of the left line, these are called foul balls and still are strikes" Rex did more explaining more of the baseball term. " Now you get only three stikes if you miss the ball all three times , but you can hit a lot of fouls balls which two fouls are strikes and then until the batter swings and misses or the umpire thinks the pitcher throws a great pitch, then the umpire can call "Strike three- You are out" Rex said to the professor. Quote:
Originally Posted by Yourenodaisy Emmaleigh slid her hand into the air. She definitely knew the answer to this question. "The u-umpire would yell 'S-strike' if the batter swings and m-misses the ball. It means that it is the b-batter's fault. If the umpire yells 'ball' then it is the p-pitcher's fault for not throwing the b-ball over the plate. Three strikes means the b-batter is out, and four balls means the batter gets to w-walk to first base." Quote:
Originally Posted by Herminny Chloe was a bit familiar with baseball so she knew the two things he may say. Thus Chloe raised her hand high and said, "That would be strike or ball cause a strike is when the pitcher throws the ball perfectly at the mound and the batter misses it in mid swing or does not swing at all. A ball is called when the pitcher throws the ball toward the batter in such away that it is too far off the center for it to be called a fair ball that the batter can hit". Again, so many with the right answer...or partly anyhow. But he was really glad that most of them had at least a little bit of background knowledge of baseball. This was going to make this a lot easier. "Yes, right, the umpire could say - among other words of course - ball or strike." Just as he was about to repeat what some of the students had said already concerning which was which, a few answers caught his attention. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiro MacMhuirich "You're out." Trent said with a smirk on her face. Afterall, if they couldn't hit the ball, why should they get to hold the bat? That was like saying your Quidditch team had a Chaser that couldn't score points - and that was just ridiculous. "Or You suck." She said with a nod of her head. She was almost positive she was wrong, but that was her opinion.
So. There. Turning to Trent, Jeremy smiled and nodded approvingly, even though, 'out' was not one of the two words he wanted to hear. But it was correct nonetheless. The umpire COULD say 'You're out' too. Clever gir-
You suck?! He couldn't quite refrain from chuckling slightly upon hearing her second answer. "Well, I assume he could say that too. Though, unlike the two words I wanted to hear, this one probably won't show up on the scoreboard." Hopefully. Unless the person operating the scoreboard was trying to be funny. Quote:
Originally Posted by Roselyn "You...fail?" If the pitcher guy couldn't pitch, and the batter guy couldn't hit, then they totally fail! It only made sense! He probably should have expected answers like these. Rubbing his forehead absentmindedly, Jeremy turned to grin at Evelyn before asking, "He COULD say that too, yes. But who would it be directed at?" Because that was the actual question there...whose fault it was when the batter missed the hit the ball. Quote:
Originally Posted by PattyH. However the next question played to the boy's solo knowledge of the Umpire. Raising his hand Patroclus smiled at Professor Zookara, "Yoooou're Out!" the boy bellowed again, beforing adding, "He can also say, Strike! and add a number, depending on his mood, STRIKE TEN!"
Seriously the boy had no idea about this game. WHOA! His head jerked into the direction where the loud sound had come from and Jeremy found himself staring at Patroclus who had apparently imitated the umpire during a match. "Absolutely correct, Patroclus. He could say 'You're out'. And of course 'Strike'." It was probably wrong to snort at a student's answer, right? But he very much felt the urge to. No, he couldn't. Cough!Snort. "Well, no, there's no Strike Ten. After the third Strike the player's out." Quote:
Originally Posted by Destiny Ehhhh.
Professor Zooballoon didn't want to eat the walnut. Not that Destiny could blame him or anything. It was sitting on the floor and was just PULVERIZED by a, probably used, beater's bat. "Oh well." she said, glancing at the mess. She didn't have to clean up the mess, did she?
Handing the bat back, since she was done with it..unless the Professor had MORE walnuts in his pocket..she waited until he turned to address the class again before a smirk appeared on her face. Using her foot, she scooted the crushed walnut under his desk. Hehe. If one can't see it, it isn't real.
Like Thestrals.
Now that everything was done, was she supposed to go back to her seat? The Professor didn't tell her to, so she figured she was to stay up front. Hehe, the view from up front was not nice..having to look at Arya all the students all day..eww. Crossing her arms, she lent up a little to get a look at the picture being shown. She had no idea what those stick figure people were doing..looked like some weird, robotic dancing, until the Zooballoon started to explain.
Yeah..she still didn't get it.
What she did get was, that if this batter person didn't hit the ball, they had to hit something else. And what else was there to hit but the referee person themselves, RIGHT? Uncrossing her arms, she raised her hand even though she was standing behind the Professor, "The referee says 'That hurts!'" Jeremy almost wanted to say 'See? Destiny can be trusted.' to Arya but then again this might have suggested that he had doubted it so he refrained from doing so and simply took the bat back from her. "Trust me, there are easier ways to crack a walnut though." He said with an amused grin while placing the bat back on his desk.
Now, where was he? Failing to notice that Destiny had in fact NOT gone back to her seat Jeremy continued his lesson until he made the mistake to decide to turn around and walk back to his desk. Only there was something between him and the desk. Or rather someone. Someone who was raising their hand. Coming to a halt only a few inches from Destiny so as to not run smack into her, Jeremy blinked a few times. "Err...why would the referee say 'it hurts'?!" He took a step backwards to increase the distance between them again, before walking around the girl and back to his desk.
Why WOULD the referee say that? Unless he had like a cramp or something but...err... "Anyway, as some of you have mentioned, the umpire would either say 'Ball' or 'Strike'. If he says 'Ball' then this means that the failed hit was the Pitcher's fault. The ball was thrown either too high, too low or too far left or right of the home plate and was therefore outside the so-called 'Strike Zone'. I won't go into detail how big the Strike Zone is exactly. You don't want to become professional Umpires after all." Or so he assumed. Hopefully. They would probably just go around telling people they fail and suck when they miss the ball. "If the Pitcher has missed the 'Strike Zone' four times, and therefore has four 'Balls' then the current Batter is allowed to go to the first base." He moved his finger across the drawing to indicate which way the batter would go.
Now, on to 'Strike'. "If the Umpire decides that the ball was indeed inside the 'Strike Zone' and the Batter still misses the ball, it is called a 'Strike'. After three 'Strikes' the current Batter is 'out', which is why the Umpire normally says 'Strike' plus how many strikes the current batter already has, for example 'Strike Two'." And not 'Strike Ten'. Cue small grin in Patroclus' direction.
"Different scenario now. Let's assume the Pitcher throws correctly and into the 'Strike Zone' and the Batter manages to hit the ball. What would he do?" Then to speed things up a little, he added, "And what would the currently Fielding Team do?" OOC: Yes, I do know it's a little more complex than this but let's not confuse the poor magical Baseball-no0bs. ;] |