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Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs
Did anyone else notice that the home plate umpire was giving the dodgers pitchers a bigger strike zone then he gave to the blue jays? Just my observation.
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I only watched the last 2 games but the ump made mistakes both ways as they do. I didn't count the bad calls one way or the other. There were some close calls on runners at first, second and home plate too. Glad they review those plays like in football.
Can we be far from auto calling the pitches with electronics? I think there will always need to be an ump at the plate for a number of reasons: attempted swings, changing out balls that are scuffed, calling out rules like a balk, and many more. But the ump could do this w/o hovering over the catcher. He could stand back and a little to the side and actually have a better view of a lot of the action.
The game camera has become indispensable for determining whether a ball was caught on the fly or hit the field at short stop, etc. We started playing baseball before radios were able to broadcast the games. Yet some of the game remains in the 19th Century. I say it's time to improve the technology and let the umps decide and/or overrule the auto calls, not make the initial calls where this is possible.