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Originally Posted by Tim C
I would agree with Kaliix -- I don't remember a game in a long time when I saw both pitchers and hitters complain as much as last night.
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Then you missed the Padres/Devil Rays game Tuesday night. Phil Cuzzi was absolutely brutal, and missed many pitches for both teams. Both managers and players from both teams were chirping all night. He missed two pitches that would have been strike 3 (called them balls, pitch track showed them to be strikes) and caused Greg Maddux to react by walking off the mound muttering. He ended up walking 3 batters for the first time this season, and it was due to Phil Cuzzi's horrific, inconsistent strike zone.
The most brutal of these missed strike 3s caused Maddux to say something, so Cuzzi comes marching out to Maddux hollering at him. Maddux was great, he just turned around and walked toward 2nd base umpire Jerry Crawford, leaving Cuzzi to argue with himself.
On the other hand, last night's game featured one of my favorite umpires, Tom Hallion, working the plate. Very few, if any, complaints. Had a great big zone, everyone knew they had to swing the bat, and was very consistent.