Umpire calls a perfect game in the World Series, a breakdown

true bill let's take a deep dive into

what made it so special what makes him

such a good umpire and all the other

arms can learn from it and look at this

that pitch the pitcher wants called as a

strike but it's a ball in the same

at-bat he gets strike three and the

batter wants it as a ball and if you

take a closer look at both pitches they

are

a ball apart and one found the zone and

the other didn't and you look at it

there and you're like all right good

call Blue you had it they weren't in the

same spot they were different you just

got to be consistent that's what he did

all night according to the UMP scorecard

from unscorecards.com he was perfect now

there is a little bit of a buffer zone

they have where balls can like go they

can go either way it just depends on the

umps consistency and they're saying that

he had five balls that kind of went

against his own consistency but still

not wrong calls all the true balls the

true strikes he called correctly and I

want to show you just what I found he

puts his head right behind the catcher

on the batter side of the plate you

always see umpires go to the badder side

of the plate but he's still finding dead

center like he's lined up with the plate

and when I even liked more when I

watched this was the dance he does with

the catcher so he's gonna react with the

catcher and catchers react really late

because they don't want to a giveaway to

The Hitter where they're setting up and

he's moving late with them so by the

time the ball's come in over the plate

his head is right behind the catcher's

head because if the pitcher hits his

spot that's the lane it should be coming

down I thought that was super cool to

watch him do this little dance because

the catcher goes inside there and he

goes inside with him he's ready to go

outside but the catcher goes inside okay

let me adjust gets there now this is the

worst called game of 2022 and you can

see the complete opposite approach where

Greg Gibson the Umpire is not lining up

with the catcher just his head is so

angled and he has no clue what's

happening on the outside part of the

plate basically just kind of guessing

and checking out there because he's not

lining up with his catcher to see and CB

Buckner now he was the worst

umpire of 2022 and accuracy that called

you know games all season and he's doing

the same thing like he's just setting up

where he's gonna set up doesn't matter

he's not trying to anticipate what pitch

is coming thing get a good read on it

like that pitch was a strike and the one

before to Alonso was a ball and these

are the two pitches next to each other

the one on top

ball the one below strike just not good

so it's impressive what hoberg's doing

and he truly cares while looking at this

I also realized that umpires only call

49.55 percent of pitches the rest gets

swung at so you know 50.5 percent of

pitchers getting swung out umpires don't

need to call balls and Strikes on that I

just never really thought of it like

that and then when you go a step further

and you're like well there's a lot of

pitches that are just balls like anyone

could probably call them maybe not

anyone but a lot of umpires because

they're just off the plate they're in

the waste or the Chase Zone and some

balls are just right down the middle

they're just strikes everybody's getting

those which leaves on average 58 pitches

per game in 2022 that umpires had to

make a decision on they were in the

shadow zone they were on the edge and

that's what they get paid for is those

58 pitches now in This World Series game

Pat hoberg had 44 of these pitches that

were on the shadow zone and that's what

I really want to go look at so first

I was looking on the outside and the

inside Edge because those don't change

batter to batter that's just the plate

so it's easier to be consistent left and

right inside outside because that

doesn't change and he was really

consistent on this side of the plate his

right side so he calls both of those

strikes and if you overlap them damn

consistent they're both strikes now he

calls all of these balls and some of

them are as close as you can get but

they are a ball in this one the Tucker

right here

they do say that

based off his preferences the way he was

calling buffer zone this one should have

been called a strike but he called it a

ball so that's one of the five they're

saying like

was wrong according to the estimated

Strike Zone and that one I don't know if

it's high or inside but look when you

overlay these

they are a ball different and the ones

on the inside got called strikes and the

ones on the outside got called balls and

he set up

that line all game and and stayed true

to it which I think is all haters really

want is like just get it there even when

a righty was up that side of the plate

he was pretty dialed in those were both

called strikes that one is called the

ball this one's a little out called the

ball and then this one is uh kind of low

and outside and they're saying that he

called that one different than his

preferences that was one of the ones

they said according to how he called the

rest of the game he probably should have

called that a ball but look at that

those are but those are both strikes two

different pitches from two different arm

slots but yeah they're there so it's

nice to have consistency now these one's

a ball and one's a strike and yeah they

are different when you compare them same

with this one's a ball one's a strike

and yep

they're like a ball apart so he was

really consistent and then let's take a

look at the other edge of the plate now

he didn't get a lot of calls there that

one he called a strike and this is also

one of the five that they're saying

based on his Zone that's probably a ball

but bone kind of steals strikes as a

batter a lot I want to go into that a

little bit because I was watching that

now this is the inside varieties with a

lefty pitching and again

calls that a strike calls that a strike

and calls this one a strike

and that one a ball and when you line up

the three strikes

they're all

you know

doing the same dance as they cross the

plate but this is where I'm talking

about that maybe the batter stole this

ball because these pitches

are really similar now

if you're gonna go really fine-tuned the

one that is a little more inside did get

called a ball while the one a little

more over the plate got called a strike

but they're really similar and I wonder

if boom sticking his ass out like that

helps sell to the Umpire that that was

inside where castianos just stays still

keeps his legs right where they were and

that you know I wonder how much the

batter can affect the call by doing that

stuff later on seems like something like

that happens as well now let's look at

low and high there wasn't that many high

pitches and low was uh it's interesting

because this change is batter to batter

so that's a strike and boom can't

believe it and yes that's one of the

five pitches that they say yeah he

probably that goes against how he called

the rest of the game that one's a ball

so if you take a look at both of those

overlaid again we got casianoson and

Bowmer and Bones back knee is really

bent to the ground on the right side and

Casiano he stays upright now these

pitches are they're really similar and

they go different ways and these batters

are similar Heights

and I wonder again if if boehm gets that

strike called on him because he drops

his knee if that comes into play at all

I I doubt it really does I don't know if

the Umpire can look at his knee

mid-swing but maybe

but maybe keep going on the low strikes

we got McCormick up and that one gets

called to strike you got two catchers

that really frame the ball that one gets

called to strike this one that's Diaz

that's called a strike castianos that

one's called a strike he doesn't agree

with that and Hoskins that one's called

a strike they're all similar so that's

the line right but then this one Therese

is called the ball and the Astros really

wanted that let's take a look at the two

pitches to McCormick same batter same

height pitch is thrown and

same spot so they were both called

strikes now these were called

differently to Hoskins one's called a

ball one's called a strike same height

batter and if you look at it you know

they're very similar but one maybe

catches the edge and the other doesn't

because the calls are consistent with

where the balls are the one higher up

called a strike the one lower called a

ball very similar but that was what he

was doing it's crazy impressive and

after spending a lot of this week

looking at all this footage watching the

pitches comparing it the other umpires

came away with uh something that I

already knew umpiring is really really

hard shouldn't really make old men do it

and when you got younger guys like Pat

hoberg who can do it perfectly put them

behind the dish more often why are we

wasting days where this guy just does

second base or down the line in the

postseason which is basically just going

Fair foul a whole crowd can do that

that's a waste of Pat hoberg's time put

him behind the dish let the players rely

on him let them feel secure you want

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rework the system until the robots come

you should have tried that's the biggest

thing as umpires you should have tried

something new before the robots come and

why did no one ever say why don't we

just use the guys that are good at

calling balls and Strikes behind home

plate why do we have to do it as a

rotation thing

seems easy