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This is Bill Welke (52)'s first ejection of 2013.
Bill Welke now has -2 points in the UEFL (0 Previous + 2 MLB + -4 Incorrect Call = -2).
Crew Chief Fieldin Culbreth now has 1 point in the UEFL's Crew Division (1 Previous + 0 Incorrect = 1).
This is the 56th ejection of 2013.
This is the 28th Manager ejection of 2013.
This is the Indians' 3rd ejection of 2013, 1st in the AL Central (CLE 3; KC 2; DET, MIN 1; CWS 0).
This is Terry Francona's first ejection since August 13, 2011 (Mark Ripperger; QOC = Y).
This is Bill Welke's first ejection since August 31, 2012 (Nelson Cruz; QOC = Y).
Wrap: Tampa Bay Rays vs. Cleveland Indians, 6/2/13
Video: After disputing Welke's strike zone Sunday, Francona tossed and charges out to yell (CLE)
10 comments :
Yadier Molina and Mike Matheny were tossed by Clint Fagan arguing an out call at first. Looking at the replay it appears that Clint absolutely nailed it. Nice job!
This has been an awesome weekend for the UEFL.
Interesting, I think this is the first time that a TV Pitch Tracker has it as a strike when it was not.
Maybe now everyone won't believe me every time I say its a strike/ball...
Even for TV trackers this is an awful example. I may be wrong and the visual may simply be misleading, but it looks like the tracker bases the strike zone on what the camera is seeing (rather than some other tracking system, though for all I know all TV trackers do that) and since the camera is off-center...
This appears a correct assessment of what happened here and why TV trackers are not always reliable. Generally speaking, the computerized graphs such as Pitch f/x are SportsVision's touted "within 1/2-inch accuracy" system and are usually reliable. What we see here is an overlayed strike zone. Usually, the overlay images placed directly over the real-life home plate are inaccurate and unscientific.
Interesting. The umpire clearly blew the call, but it happens. I'd like to see ANYONE be 100% accurate all of the time (at this level). Anyway, there is not much that can be done to decide this equitably once the umpire makes his or her call, so that's life. I'd hate to see challenges extended to balls and strikes.
And Bill Welke....Not one of MLB's better umpires.
I love how the announcer refers to Bill Welke as "that guy." Real Professional lol.
Those pitch trackers are faulty for a major reason...they show the strike zone as a 2 dimensional plane when the strike zone is actually 3 dimensional. A strike has to go through the majority of that 3-D zone to be a strike. The way I learned from Vic Voltaggio is that the pitch is a strike if it comes in after the front of the zone (which would register as a ball on the pitch tracker) and hits most of zone. Or if it clips the front of the zone but does not pass through most of it it would be a ball (which would register as a strike on the pitch tracker).
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