data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.104498 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Doug Ritter)
Subject: Re: Expanded NL Strike Zone? (Was Re: A surfeit of offense?)
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Eric Roush) writes:
>In article <[email protected]> [email protected]
>(Edward [Ted] Fischer) writes:
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>>We won't really be able to say anything for at least another couple of
>>weeks. But so far it looks like a homerific season! (Might the umps
>>be squeezing the strike zone?)
>>
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>Watching the Braves on TBS, I would have said that the strike zone
>in the NL has expanded this season. Specifically, it appears that
>the strike zone has moved above the belt. Yeah, the announcers
>have commented on that also, but it was also my perception.
>
>However, the strike zone hasn't climbed all the way up to
>"the letters". It's more like a little ways under the letters.
>
>Any other perceptions out there?
Judging by the way the Reds' pitchers have performed thus far, it
appears to me that the zone has been squeezed to the size of a grape.
1/2 :-)
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