I don't think that Umps are "in it" to help one team or another. But unconscious bias certainly must come into play, and that bias, in sports, usually falls to whichever team, or player, has higher "status." Of course this is obviously the case in the NBA, where star players get most of the calls when there is contact around the basket.
I think it’s you. We are fans. The score card is objective. I am surprised too. But he was pretty accurate overall. The problem is that the misses were bad and untimely, and favored one team. And one was right down the middle. This same score card in a game where the 8 misses (2 of which are barely misses) were evenly distributed and less impactful leverage wise would be a pretty good scorecard. Just bad luck that his handful of misses were one sided high lev.
I suspect a great deal of this was the called 3rd strike on Story (which was well out of the zone) and the lack of a 3rd strike call for Pivetta on a ball middle middle, although that actually didn't cost them anything.
If you read a Yankee thread you'd probably see them howling that all the calls went the Red Sox way. Fans do tend to overlook their favorable calls and go nuts over the unfavorable.
Hm you may be right about that. Usual caveats that my low level ump experience is not the same as this, but if Valentine had gotten set he would have been blocked, so he didn't seem to get set, which is a recipe for trouble. So that's as good a guess as any.
Are you talking about the Kiner-Falefa play? The umps on the field don't overturn that.
I believe the Amica Pitch Zone is not the same tech that the scorecard uses. For instance, watching the side-view replay of the ball Judge struck out on in the 9th, while the APZ showed it barely on the lower part of the black, it pretty clearly, from the side view, was at the center of Judge's knees. So you probably have to bake in a little of that.
The on screen pitch zones often don't agree with the data collected on balls an strikes for reasons this video goes into.
Yep. The “missed” strike three on Devers that led to a HR and the reversed home plate call were way more impactful than Pivetta’s down-the-middle ball and Story’s strikeout.
There was a missed strike three call call on Raffy before his home run? See, further proving just what you said (I know nothing of that missed call. Ha ha).
I didn’t see it either but MFY fans complained about it on Twitter, further making the point that we tend to miss bad calls in our favor.
Thanks for sharing – it sounds like 1) the system MLB uses can’t be replicated in real time yet and 2) the calls that the real time system struggles with the most involve the vertical strike zone. And indeed, Valentine “missed” a number of low pitches that the MLB system probably said were correctly called.
I assume it's the third pitch here... I don't find that too egregious. Pitches up and on the outer edge often get called balls.
Guess you can tell how many I watched, too. My bad. Then again, I've never been one to let the facts get in the way of a good burn. Thanks for the fact check.
I don't follow to closely, what's happened?
That means they needed a righty warming up to start the 4th inning during a stretch of 16 days in a row without one off. For better or worse, that game was going to be for Paxton and Murphy.
Since Murphy was sent down (and has to "stay down" for 15 days (pitcher) presumably they will have Llovera available but I'm hoping with a need for a long-relief arm that they call Walters up as soon as Llovera finishes his next outing. There's too many short inning appearances by starters to not have as many of the Murphys, Walters, Pivetta, guys around.
Glad I couldn't watch the game. To me, it seems like Cora sacrifices too many chances to win today because it will give him a better chance (he supposes) to win tomorrow. I believe a bird in the hand is still worth two in the bush.
Well, Whitlock isn’t available. Winckowski and Schreiber each threw 20+ pitches yesterday. Really needed more out of Houck, but not a lot of options out there today.
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So, should the Sox have left Paxton in longer yesterday, so the bullpen would be fresher today? I don't think so.
