The With of the plate and from the hitters knees to his chest
the strike zone is wherever the umpire says
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from the chest to the knees
Both, It depends on your league. I have played both ways. There are at least 2 mat size 16.5"x25" & 17"x36"
Midget Eddie Gaedel was sent to the plate as a pinch hitter by maverick owner Bill Veeck and instructed not to swing.
In little league like the majors when bunting and you miss the pitch it is a strike. It depends on the umpire; if he thinks the batter offered at the pitch, he will call the strike. Simply holding the bat in the strike zone is not offering at the pitch unless the umpire decides that. It is a safer bet to teach your batters to pull the bat out of the strike zone if they decide to not bunt at the pitch.
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Umpires do not decide or announce changes in the strike zone, that is determined by the MLB Rules Committee. The last such change by the committee was in 1996, when the lower limit of the strike zone was changed from the top of the knees to the bottom of the knees. Umpires simply call the strike zone on what THEY PERCEIVE as the size of the zone in the rules in effect at the time.
One pitch, if thrown outside of the strike zone is one ball in baseball. Four pitches thrown outside of the strike zone during the course of one at-bat equals a walk, also referred to as a base-on-balls (BB)
The strike zone varies from batter to batter. The width of the strike zone is the width of home plate. The height is from the batter's chest (usually the letters) down to the batter's knees. The strike zone doesn't necessarily go by how tall the batter is, but by how the batter's stance is in the batter's box while waiting for the pitch.
The strike zone on a little league player starts and the midpoint of the chest right under the armpits to the knees, as a umpire in LL we try to give the pitchers the confidence of getting the ball across the plate with out tightening up on them, if it looks hitable better swing.
A ball in base ball is a ball outside of the strike zone. The strike zone is from mid-chest to knees and over home plate. Any ball inside the strike zone is a strike.