CWS Strike Zone
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CWS Strike Zone
I've watched all 4 CWS games so far. The strike zone is certainly larger--especially wider but also higher--than the regular season and even thru the Supers (I watched a lot of those games too), but inconsistently so. Even my neophyte-baseball-fan girlfriend has commented on it. The umpire in the LSU-UT game loves him some big, high curve ball strike calls. He looks straight out of 2019. He's got a Greg Maddox type strike zone. Skenes, who is dealing tonight, got a called strike 3 on a pitch high & outside. Several hitters have reacted with genuine surprise at strike calls. Even Peterson & Burks have commented on the unusually wide strike zone.
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If LSU goes on to win this game, Vols fans will, with some justification, claim they got jobbed by the home plate ump and his "generous" strike zone. The strike 3 call to end the 3-run UT 8th was egregiously bad.
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Re: CWS Strike Zone
If umpire crews are kept together in the postseason that was an SEC crew. Jeff Head was 3rd base umpire and crew chief.Levon wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:09 pm I've watched all 4 CWS games so far. The strike zone is certainly larger--especially wider but also higher--than the regular season and even thru the Supers (I watched a lot of those games too), but inconsistently so. Even my neophyte-baseball-fan girlfriend has commented on it. The umpire in the LSU-UT game loves him some big, high curve ball strike calls. He looks straight out of 2019. He's got a Greg Maddox type strike zone. Skenes, who is dealing tonight, got a called strike 3 on a pitch high & outside. Several hitters have reacted with genuine surprise at strike calls. Even Peterson & Burks have commented on the unusually wide strike zone.
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Makes sense, but I didn't recognize the home plate umpire from any SEC games I saw this year.DivergentDore wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 10:39 pmIf umpire crews are kept together in the postseason that was an SEC crew. Jeff Head was 3rd base umpire and crew chief.Levon wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:09 pm I've watched all 4 CWS games so far. The strike zone is certainly larger--especially wider but also higher--than the regular season and even thru the Supers (I watched a lot of those games too), but inconsistently so. Even my neophyte-baseball-fan girlfriend has commented on it. The umpire in the LSU-UT game loves him some big, high curve ball strike calls. He looks straight out of 2019. He's got a Greg Maddox type strike zone. Skenes, who is dealing tonight, got a called strike 3 on a pitch high & outside. Several hitters have reacted with genuine surprise at strike calls. Even Peterson & Burks have commented on the unusually wide strike zone.