Wednesday's Rangers/Red Sox game did not start off well for Chris Sale. That was because the amorphous strike zone in Marvin Hudson's head did not align very well with the one in MLB's Rule Book (i.e., that Hudson is expected to (and is paid to) enforce).
Sale had to throw six strikes (#1-5, 7) before Hudson demurred and finally rang up Delino DeShields in the top of the first inning. (Hudson called balls for #2 and #5. But if he had called #2 correctly, #4 would have been strike 3.)
Sale then likely struck out Elvis Andrus, but Hudson thought otherwise, and Andrus eventually doubled.