Attention: Doug Eddings

[HaloMagic]

I've watched enough baseball, using that same camera angle over the last 35 years to say that's a ball, even if it had caught a part of the plate.

So because you watch a lot of baseball, even if that pitch was a strike or was a ball? Makes sense.

[Stradling]

So because you watch a lot of baseball, even if that pitch was a strike or was a ball? Makes sense.

Well, because I watch a lot of baseball, I have the ability to differentiate between a ball and a strike. Eddings missed that one, it wasn't malicious it was a mistake.

[bloodbrother]

Just a reminder that yep, it was still a ball

[HaloMagic]

Brooks data and FoxTrax said it didn't miss. So if the ball didn't miss and Eddings said it didn't miss how did he miss it?

[Ludwig Von Mises]

It wasn't a strike. It didn't "knick the corner." I don't know what you could possibly be looking at.

It missed low and in (as shown in the Brooks data), then traveled further low and in into the catchers glove. Ball.

 

Then some nonsense about eddings' established strikezone? If his zone includes a pitch high and away while also including a pitch low and inside then he's a crappy ump with a poor interpretation of the strikezone. If he does that while also calling a pitch down the middle a ball then he's a blind crappy ump with a poor interpretation of the strikezone.

 

The ump missed 3 out of 5 calls in the at-bat. Might as well use a magic 8 ball.

[bloodbrother]

What are you lookin at? This is directly from brooksbaseball site, which shows that it missed the zone

 

 

 

You can say it was closer than it looked(agreed) it was still a ball

[Caralho]

I don't suppose it was Eddings at third in the playoffs against the Yankees. Remember we tag two Yankees who were off the base and somehow only got one out from the play? In the playoffs yet.

 

That was Tim McClellan.

[Stradling]

What are you lookin at? This is directly from brooksbaseball site, which shows that it missed the zone

You can say it was closer than it looked(agreed) it was still a ball

So the top graph, is backwards right? I am not too familiar with these graphs, but the "strike two" pitch was low and inside, not low and outside, right?

[HaloMagic]

The zone plot shows that the center of the baseball was 1.2 inches below the "zone". A baseball has a diameter of 3 inches. So 1.5 inches would be above the center. So the baseball nicked the bottom corner by .3 inches. It caught the plate. Add in Eddings large zone and it turns out everyone is just mad because out didn't look like a strike to them despite the fact that it was.

Edited July 26, 2014 by HaloMagic

[ABC]

What are you lookin at? This is directly from brooksbaseball site, which shows that it missed the zone

 

 

 

 

You can say it was closer than it looked(agreed) it was still a ball

 

Eddings missed the first pitch!!!!! Worst call of all time!!! Oh, it favored the Angels, nm.

 

BTW, FoxTrax said it was a strike. Is Brooks more accurate?

[Splint7438]

That was Tim McClellan.

TY Rob. Was just piling on.