Sentences with phrase «umpires calling strikes»

The team found the same pattern in baseball umpires calling strikes, and immigration workers recommending asylum.

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Either forgetting or remembering that the mike is turned on, Reggie turns to the umpire and, fearful of being walked, orders room service: «Call the next one a strike, no matter where it is.»

Five days later he was banished from a game, fined and suspended for three games for pushing the plate umpire after a third - strike call.

He challenged umpires nose - to - nose whenever he was called out on strikes and kicked dirt every time he made an error.

«Frank Thomas is the worst one for that, and umpires won't call inside strikes on him.»

He virtually ignores the inside pitch, knowing the umpire is not likely to call one a strike and the pitcher doesn't want to risk inciting a brawl or give up a home run by throwing one.

Owners have ignored recent suggestions to raise the pitching mound or to insist that the umpires expand the strike zone to the dimensions that are called for in the rule book.

But the best is the enemy of the good; the most imperfect machine - vision system currently available would probably do a better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than human umpires do.

There are a number of umps who tend to favor pitchers on borderline calls and my hypothesis was that Phil Cuzzi, Ron Kulpa, Bill Miller, Ted Barret and Doug Eddings — who are renowned for having the largest strike zones in baseball — would be among the most profitable umpires for betting unders.

Typically being a good over umpire means calling a very tight strike zone, and it will be interesting to see if that zone beings to expand at all in his third season.

The calculus of Bonds's season is much clearer than the chemistry: Umpires had dared call a strike on 58 of those first 444 pitches to Bonds, or an average of once every two times he came to the plate.

We'll still need umpires to manage to call this stricter zone — and it's to be seen if there will be actual changes to the zone as well, as have been discussed in the past — but the first step toward strike zone uniformity could come this winter.

Back during his 2005 Senate judiciary committee confirmation hearings to become the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts tried to allay Democratic senators» fears that he was a conservative ideologue by famously comparing the role of judges with baseball umpires and declaring, «It's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.»

The paper examined data about 1.5 million pitches collected by PITCHf / x, including the type of pitch (curve or fastball), where it landed, and whether it was called a ball or strike by the umpire.