Tightest Strike Zone Ever?

I usually try not to be hyperbolic but ask me a couple years down the road and I will still say that was the smallest strike zone I have ever witnessed unless someone has one the size of a tin can. We bitch about umps every game, but yesterday was warranted (both ways from a balls/strikes standpoint). Both teams were getting squeezed.

that home plate ump likes it tight

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Question, does the same crew work the rest of the games for the regional or do we get a different one?

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There are at least two complete umpire crews calling this regional. I noticed the Friday night crew was different from the crew who called the LSU afternoon game Friday.

yes

Any other Umpire--- behind home plate &
Nola would have eaten their lunch in
The First inning. They may have scored
One run at most.

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Not from what I saw

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Agree, he was all over the place

That whole crew last night sucked. One of the worst games overall I have seen called in over 25 years of going to the Box. Sam Houston got shafted on a couple of calls as well. Just an overall piss poor crew. I bet those guys will never be back.

I've been thinking about this quite a bit today. It wasn't Nola's fault.

He's been lights out all season. Suddenly he comes up against an umpire that doesn't give him the corners like he has gotten all season. Only a perfect down-the-middle pitch will do.

So he presses, aims for the tiny strike zone. Of course, the batters can find a perfect down-the-middle pitch. They were smoking them, which led to multiple errors in the field, uncharacteristic for this team.

So it was the perfect storm of crap, perpetrated by the terrible ump. It's a credit to Nola that he figured out how to pitch around that awful strike zone.