re: Tightest Strike Zone Ever?

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.