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The umps that sit on the inside corner miss these calls all day. There's a reason they used to all line up directly behind the plate.

At no point was the ball close to being a strike. He wasn't fooled by a break, he's just looking from a poor angle. It's ridiculous.

 
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I was thinking the same thing as I watched that game (I watched some of all the games yesterday)

Ohtani was actually struggling and still did what he did but the Angles were fucked because Trout was walked once and hit three shots into the outfield that happened to get caught.

The other 24 guys on that roster should donate their checks to charity.
 
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Jake said:
The umps that sit on the inside corner miss these calls all day. There's a reason they used to all line up directly behind the plate.

At no point was the ball close to being a strike. He wasn't fooled by a break, he's just looking from a poor angle. It's ridiculous.

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Zero reason to call that a strike. That said, umpires are taught to be on the inside shoulder of the catcher and that's not changing.

Umps are taught to figure out the alignment of the outside corner either with his outside foot (look at the video, it's on the outside corner) or by the catcher's alignment where his chest is centered on the outside corner as well when receiving the pitch. Anything outside of that should be a ball. Even with that, he seems to sorta hesitate before calling it (unknown if that is his way of calling or not)...

Without seeing the rest of the zone/pitches, it's not possible to say if this was just a mistake or if this was normal though. Sometimes umps will blow one. It happens.
 
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Jake said:
This could be a long season in Boston. After scoring 5 runs in the first inning of game one, they scored 3 runs the next 26 innings.

They were playing the Pirates at Fenway, and got swept. :pirate:
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Their pitching is a hot mess. Kluber is a shell of his old self, Sale is the same and he can't stay healthy, the rest of the rotation is not good either. The bullpen is pretty ugly as well.
 
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