re: This is a perfect demonstration of the consequences of DEI

I can tell you that is was close and not as egregiously bad as it’s made out.

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Some of you are beyond blind. This is the baseball savant breakdown of where the pitch went through the zone, it's absolutely nowhere close:

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This is SEVERAL inches inside, not something that may have barely caught the zone or an inch inside or something

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We're beyond blind? You literally have no fricking idea what you're even looking at. First of all, it doesn't show the ball going "through" the zone. Anyone who wasn't stoned every day in high school geometry class knows that would be a 3-D diagram, not the 2-D diagram you're looking at.

Second..."SEVERAL"??? It's a ball width. A baseball's diameter is a hair under 3 inches. Anyone who wasn't stoned every day in high school English knows that 3 isn't "several".

Third...know how deep the strike zone is? 17 inches. That's the distance from the front of the plate to the back. The ball was moving from left to right...if it was 3 inches outside at the back of the plate, it was less than that at the front of the plate.

Bottom line...it was probably a ball, but it was also her misfortune for it to be her first pitch. If it had been her 140th pitch in a game where she graded 91%, none of us would have ever seen it.

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She was at 91% and league average is around 94%. Not nearly as bad as this overreaction thread, but not good either.

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How do people keep replying with blatantly wrong information? Her accuracy rate was 92.72% (aka 93%) which is a completely normal debut.

Umpire Scorecard

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Maybe she should have tried college baseball 1st. That looked like an SEC umpire call.

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It’s really has gotten to the point where the college calls are so bad in both the SEC tournament and the NCAA tournament (including the CWS) that all you can hope for is that they are consistently bad for both teams. I will say this, for the CWS, most of the umps were at least consistently bad. I remember there was one guy who consistently gave pitchers strikes on the opposite batters box chalk. But he did it for both teams.

Having said that, the thing that I kept commenting on was the lack of the box to show how bad the calls were. I think fans and players deserve to have one of those boxes to show how bad (or good) the calls are. I doubt very seriously it’s a complicated technology. In fact, it seems like the "powers that be" know exactly how bad the calls are in college ball and purposely do not give us that box.

Almost 65% of the pitches were strikes in the game. Fairly high number, but out line totally.

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No dude - she’s a woman. On this board, we make fun of women because none of us have one.

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How can you? You folks cannot define what one is.