 And that does for the corners. First down. Hey, by the way, praise to Pat Holberg in his first World Series game. He's been pinpointed tonight. He has. Yep, umpire Pat Holberg called a perfect game in the World Series. And today's breakdown is brought to you by Rocket Money, formerly known as True Bill. Let's take a deep dive into what made it so special. What makes him such a good umpire? And all the other umps can learn from it. And look at this. That pitch, the pitcher wants, called as a strike. But it's a ball. And the same at bat, he gets strike three. And the batter wants it as a ball. And if you take a closer look at both pitches, they are a ball apart. And one found the zone. And the other didn't. And you look at it there. And you're like, all right, good call, blue. You had it. They weren't in the same spot. They were different. You just got to be consistent. That's what he did all night. According to the umpscore card from unscorecards.com, he was perfect. Now, there is a little bit of a buffer zone they have. Where balls can go either way. It just depends on the ump's consistency. And they're saying that he had five balls that kind of went against his own consistency, but still not wrong calls. All the true balls, the true strikes, he called correctly. And I want to show you just what I found. He puts his head right behind the catcher on the batter's side of the plate. You always see umpires go to the batter's side of the plate. But he's still finding dead center. He's lined up with the plate. And when I even liked more, when I watch this, was the dance he does with the catcher. So he's going to react with the catcher. And catchers react really late, because they don't want to give away to the hitter where they're setting up. And he's moving late with them. So by the time the ball's coming over the plate, his head is right behind the catcher's head. Because if the pitcher hits his spot, that's the lane it should be coming down. I thought that was super cool to watch him do this little dance, because the catcher goes inside there. And he goes inside with him. He's ready to go outside, but the catcher goes inside. He's like, OK, let me adjust. Gets there. Now this is the worst called game of 2022. And you can see the complete opposite approach where Greg Gibson, the umpire, is not lining up with the catcher. Just his head is so angled. And he has no clue what's happening on the outside part of the plate. Basically just kind of guessing and checking out there, because he's not lining up with his catcher to see. And C.B. Buckner, now he was the worst umpire of 2022 in accuracy that called games all season. And he's doing the same thing. Like he's just setting up where he's going to set up. Doesn't matter. He's not trying to anticipate what pitch is coming, get a good read on it. That pitch was a strike. And the one before to Alonzo was a ball. And these are the two pitches next to each other. The one on top, ball, the one below, strike. Just not good. So it's impressive what Hohberg's doing. And he truly cares. While looking at this, I also realized that umpires only call 49.55% of pitches the rest get swung at. So 50.5% of pitchers getting swung at. Umpires don't need to call balls and strikes on that. I just never really thought of it like that. And then when you go a step further and you're like, well, there's a lot of pitches that are just balls. Anyone could probably call them. Maybe not anyone, but a lot of umpires, because they're just off the plate. They're in the waist or the chase zone. And some balls are just right down the middle. They're just strikes. Everybody's getting those. Which leaves, on average, 58 pitches per game in 2022 that umpires had to make a decision on. They were in the shadow zone. They were on the edge. And that's what they get paid for is those 58 pitches. Now, in this World Series game, Pat Hauberg had 44 of these pitches that were on the shadow zone. And that's what I really want to go look at. So first, I was looking on the outside and the inside edge because those don't change batter to batter. That's just the plate. So it's easier to be consistent left and right, inside, outside, because that doesn't change. And he was really consistent on this side of the plate. His right side. So he calls both of those strikes. And if you overlap them, damn consistent. They're both strikes. Now he calls all of these balls. And some of them are as close as you can get, but they are a ball in. This one, the Tucker right here, they do say that based off his preferences, the way he was calling buffer zone, this one should have been called a strike, but he called it a ball. So that's one of the five they're saying was wrong according to the estimated strike zone. And that one, I don't know if it's high or inside, but look when you overlay these, they are a ball different. And the ones on the inside got called strikes. And the ones on the outside got called balls. And he set up that line all game and stayed true to it, which I think is all hitters really want. And it's like, just get it there. Even when a righty was up, that side of the plate, he was pretty dialed in. Those were both called strikes. That one's called a ball. This one's a little out, called a ball. And then this one is kind of low and outside. And they're saying that he called that one different than his preferences. That was one of the ones they said, according to how he called the rest of the game, he probably should have called that a ball. But look at that, those are both strikes. Two different pitches from two different arm slots, but yeah, they're there. So it's nice to have consistency. Now these, one's a ball and one's a strike. And yeah, they are different when you compare them. Same with this, one's a ball, one's a strike. And yep, they're like a ball apart. So he was really consistent. And then let's take a look at the other edge of the plate. Now he didn't get a lot of calls there. That one he called a strike. And this is also one of the five that they're saying based on his zone, that's probably a ball. But boom, kind of steel strikes as a batter a lot. I wanna go into that a little bit because I was watching that. Now this is the inside to righties with a lefty pitching. And again, calls that a strike, calls that a strike, calls this one a strike, and that one a ball. And when you line up the three strikes, they're all, you know, doing the same dance as they cross the plate. But this is where I'm talking about that. Maybe the batter stole this ball because these pitches are really similar. Now, if you're gonna go really fine tune, the one that is a little more inside did get called a ball, while the one a little more over the plate got called a strike. But they're really similar. And I wonder if Boom sticking his ass out like that helps sell to the umpire that that was inside where Castianos just stays still, keeps his legs right where they were. And that, you know, I wonder how much the batter can affect the call by doing that stuff. Later on, seems like something like that happens as well. Now let's look at low and high. There wasn't that many high pitches and low was, it's interesting. Cause this change is batter to batter. So that's a strike and Boom can't believe it. And yes, that's one of the five pitches that they say, yeah, he probably, that goes against how he called the rest of the game. Now one's a ball. So if you take a look at both of those overlaid, again, we got Castianos and Boom up and Boom's back knee is really bent to the ground on the right side. And Castianos, he stays upright. Now these pitches are, they're really similar and they go different ways. And these batters are similar heights. And I wonder again, if Boom gets that strike called on him because he drops his knee, if that comes into play at all, I doubt it really does. I don't know if the umpire can look at his knee mid swing. But maybe, but maybe keep going on the low strikes. We got McCormick up and that one gets called to strike. You got two catchers that really frame the ball. That one gets called to strike. This one, that's Diaz, that's called to strike. Castianos, that one's called to strike. He doesn't agree with that. And Hoskins, that one's called to strike. They're all similar. So that's the line, right? But then this one, Therese, is called to ball. And the Astros really wanted that. Let's take a look at the two pitches to McCormick. Same batter, same height, pitches thrown and same spot. So they were both called strikes. Now these were called differently to Hoskins. One's called a ball, one's called a strike. Same height batter. And if you look at it, you know, they're very similar but one maybe catches the edge and the other doesn't because the calls are consistent with where the balls are. The one higher up called to strike. The one lower called a ball, very similar. But that was what he was doing. It's crazy impressive. And after spending a lot of this week looking at all this footage, watching the pitches, comparing it to other umpires came away with something that I already knew. Umpiring is really, really hard. Shouldn't really make old men do it. And when you got younger guys like Pat Hohberg who can do it perfectly, put them behind the dish more often. Why are we wasting days where this guy just does second base or down the line in the post season which is basically just going fair, foul. A whole crowd can do that. That's a waste of Pat Hohberg's time. 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