re: Bot 6th ESPN strike zone graphics

So Floyd should have absolutely struck out batter 1. Then it went south on him in his head. But terrible officiating! Hard to argue that graphic

He does not frame the best and it takes a catcher to see it but there were many pitches that were "there" called balls.

I think the middle square is supposed to be their “strike zone” in those graphics.

Regardless, the umpire’s 6th inning zone completely changed and it’s unarguable. He was bad the entire game, but the low strike completely went away in the 6th. I don’t think Tranvinski was helping him very much back there either — I don’t understand why he doesn’t try to frame up more. It’s like he’s playing hot potato back there with how quickly he pulls the glove and throws it back to the pitcher.

Absolutely atrocious inning by the umpire. How you go from having a fairly wide zone all night to suddenly squeezing in the middle of the game is absurd. The first batter in the inning watched 5 strikes. That cannot happen at this level of play.

Those graphics are BS. There weren't that many borderline pitches in that sequence. Several of those pitches were way out of the zone.

2 different pitches
Neither called strikes