HP Umpire Ben May ejected Royals RF Dairon Blanco and manager Matt Quatraro for arguing a strike three call in the 9th inning of Kansas City’s loss to Philadelphia. Once again, the computer strike zone graphics and computer’s raw data disagreed about the crucial call. Report: https://www.closecallsports.com/2023/08/mlb-ejections-172-3-ben-may-3-4-kc.html
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Kimbrel is one of the best closers in major league baseball. You watch your damn mouth woman.
Yes!!!!! Odo and Captain Sisco!!! DS9
Obviously low and not a strike. More devaluing of the product by an inept umpire.
The pitch was low, you can see from the side. It was even below your yellow line. I don't care what the "raw data" says. The eyeballs say "low."
I seen it on tv here in Philadelphia and I was laughing most of these ejections always make me laugh lol!
300 getting ever closer!
🖖Love it! Go Niners!
Baseball + DS9 = ❤
Part of the issue is that we've got about 6 different viewpoints going on now – the TV view, the TV box, the real box, the side view from the dugouts, and then the batter and the ump. Obviously we've always had many of these, but when several that should match up don't, it creates more confusion instead of making things clearer.
😂 Nailed it. Thanks CCS
Star Trek and CCS crossover event when
Does the AAA review system use the data you used in this video or does the AAA review system use a variation of the TV box?
The best part is the tv box visibly moving upwards in relation to the backstop 0:49.
Strike zone box is annoying. Most concur that it is not accurate. However, watching the game it is hard not to use it as a reference. Needs to be gotten rid of.
Exactly why I’ve commented on previous videos about your computer generated zones. It’s bull💩
Great call on the trek reference – Odo is a real hard ass ump!
I do completely concur with you on the buffer between the computer graphics and the real thing.
Screw technology
I say it all the time, get rid of the tv box. It doesn’t have the real trajectory of a pitch in the zone!
MLB and its broadcast partners need to get rid of the strike zone box. They need to simply mark where the pitch is located on the screen and then add the Expected Call text with either strike or ball. The strike zone box is simply not accurate and is just fueling managers’, coaches’, players’ and fans’ ire when it looks like an umpire missed a pitch because unless you watch Close Call Sports and see the location data and hear Linds explain that there is dissonance between the strike zone box and the computer, you will think the umpires are missing pitches. And of course, that’s not to say umpires are 100% on every pitch. But, they are better than most of us think they are. Calling pitches at 90+ mph is an incredibly difficult challenge.
Odo is the best ump in the quadrant.
"I don't want a computer calling a baseball game; that's something Solak would do."
Seriously though, am I the only one who wishes the networks would stop putting up those stupid strike zone graphics? It's distracting and it obviously makes no difference to the outcome of the game. All it does is give players/managers an excuse to get tossed when they see the replay (which may or may not be accurate in any case, as we see here).
That was a ball — low.
Always love these CCS videos but throwing in some DS9 takes it to another level ❤
I wonder did Captain Sisko get his "money worth"? .
I love how you inserted the Star Trek reference in there!!
Has Lindsay ever explained where she gets the pitch tracking data from about strike zones? Is it extracted directly from the video or is there some available data source for it? And if it’s available to Lindsay, why don’t the broadcasters use it to draw the box?
the numbers on the upper right are a bit confusing. their meanings are not accessible to a casual audience.
Is that a CLOUD of rosin coming off the first pitch?? 😆
I can't wait for roboumps……..not because I want umpires not calling pitches anymore but so we can enjoy how bad many of these hitters really are….go watch some videos from the 70's and watch players like Aaron, Mays, Clemente, etc swing the bat and can hit balls or strikes. Todays hitters look at so many pitches that they really are their own worst enemy
Will be great when the ABS is in MLB. I'm not seeing all these ejection videos from the minors now that the ABS system was introduced this season
Look, hasn’t this become whiffle ball baseball, where the pitcher throws the ball anywhere and the umpire has to guess where the ball is??? What happened to “CATCHER PRESENTATION”????????