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Umpire Maneuvers

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2021 Regular Season,Vignettes
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on May 31, 2021

What is the Umpire doing?

How did we get to this Critical Baseball Observation?

A Clue

Yes, that is the ball in the air.
Yes, it was 74mph below the strike zone

What Happened?

The left-handed pitcher inherited runners on the corners.

He stared them down.

He gave them reason to worry.

The batter called time right when the pitcher pulled the trigger.

In this picture, you will see that only the umpire knows that the shot has gone off.

This was seriously the pitcher’s first pitch of the game, and it counts as…

Nothing.

The batter had called time.


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