I’ve already written about this in detail in the recap to Tuesday’s Cubs defeat, but let’s have another look at the egregiously bad strike-three call on Tony Kemp Tuesday night by plate umpire Marty Foster:
Pitch 5 is the one we’re talking about here, and that’s not a strike in any rule book I’ve ever seen.
Here’s video:
I’ve already been through analysis of this play in the recap. If the call is made correctly, maybe it changes the outcome of that at-bat, maybe it doesn’t.