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strike zone looked a tad wide on the outside
Posted on 6/8/13 at 6:21 am
Posted on 6/8/13 at 6:21 am
anyone else think this ???...great hitters get fooled but not all the time w/o help
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Posted on 6/8/13 at 6:27 am to BCSmess
It appeared that pill popper was getting some help
Posted on 6/8/13 at 6:32 am to BCSmess
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Probably already addressed but...the strike-zone seemed very generous (Posted on 6/8/13 at 6:29 am)
ooops,,,beat me by two minutes. Great minds think alike.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 6:35 am to BCSmess
Yea, the announcers kept saying what a consistent strike zone the ump had.....
Duh! When you have two aces like last night the zone is always pretty consistent.
Duh! When you have two aces like last night the zone is always pretty consistent.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 6:40 am to BCSmess
It worked to both pitchers advantage
Posted on 6/8/13 at 6:45 am to BCSmess
I thought they did a decent job compared too the rump rangers we had last weekend
Posted on 6/8/13 at 7:01 am to BCSmess
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looked a tad wide on the outside
it definitely looked outside. I don't watch a lot of baseball, so I was curious if the camera angle made the pitches appear further out than they actually were ... I should've watched where the catcher set-up and if he moved his mitt.
Blue was consistent about the call, except a couple of times on Nola. The crowd let him know each time.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 7:20 am to BCSmess
Maybe so but last week it was the size of an index card. At least the ump was consistent. It also enhanced the "pitchers duel." Nola would have walked more batters if the zone was tight because he has a lot of run on his pitches.
This post was edited on 6/8/13 at 7:22 am
Posted on 6/8/13 at 7:21 am to Jaydeaux
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It appeared that pill popper was getting some help
Nola got some very low strikes called. I hated the strike zone but both pitchers benefitted.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 7:24 am to Topwater Trout
With all-world pitchers on the mound, would have been nice to use the ump with the tightest strike zone and let the kids take some cuts.
However, now that we won, I wouldn't change a thing. Though I fear Eades/Glenn will have to deal with a much tighter window.
Other than the Ump being a tad generous, that crew was rock solid.
However, now that we won, I wouldn't change a thing. Though I fear Eades/Glenn will have to deal with a much tighter window.
Other than the Ump being a tad generous, that crew was rock solid.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 7:44 am to Fat Man
I thought the camera angle had a lot to do with it too. It seemed like the camera was positioned more to left field than normal. I noticed that from the first pitch. He had a wide zone but kept it that way all night.
This post was edited on 6/8/13 at 7:46 am
Posted on 6/8/13 at 8:06 am to WylieTiger
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Nola would have walked more batters if the zone was tight because he has a lot of run on his pitches.
possibly, but he worked the zone he was being given. Plus, many umps will give you a strike a hair outside the zone if they know that's the exact pitch you're trying to make...i.e. hook just off the corner on a 2 strike count.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 8:18 am to Topwater Trout
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Nola got some very low strikes called. I hated the strike zone but both pitchers benefitted.
This! The strike zone was wide, but not unusually so. It was unusually low, though. I found it a little inconsistently wide. There were four or five outside balls called strikes, especially the first strike on Ibarra in his last at-bat. That was the appearance that he went down on three called strikes. The second two were perfect pitches, but my jaw dropped when they called that first one a strike.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 8:19 am to BCSmess
I thought the umps did a great job. Much better than the regional.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 8:20 am to BCSmess
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strike zone looked a tad wide on the outside
I think the guy had a really good zone. He called the high strike and low strike that IS IN THE ACTUAL STRIKE ZONE that many umps refuse to call.
I was very happy with how he called the game.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 8:22 am to BCSmess
I think it was even. He wasn't bias.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 8:29 am to Penrod
What was funny about it too was, the color commentator would make the call assuming one way or the other. Then the ump would make the opposite call. So even they were fooled by some of the calls made.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 9:59 am to Witecoco
When an ump gives a strike zone pounder like Nola the knees down pitches, he's almost unhittable, like he was last nite. He throws to contact & they were either pounding it into the ground or lofting easy fly balls to Raph. He gets hit when he has to throw his strikes up in the zone to compensate for a small srike zone down low. The outside pitches...meh. The ump was pretty consistent. Now, those base umps seemed to have blown one or two, both sides. Raph was safe at second on his steal attempt, Laird was out at first if I'm recalling that play right.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 10:29 am to Keltic Tiger
I thought the zone was fine. The pitches that Gray got off the outer half, Nola got down. I'd much rather it be big than small (that's what she said).
Posted on 6/8/13 at 10:39 am to BCSmess
Aside from 2-3 bad calls, I think last night's ump did a great job. Especially considering what we had to contend with during regionals.
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