The two walks, slam and an additional out made for a 34-pitch fourth inning for Hamels. And, it’s worth noting, that section of the zone included missed calls for the Rangers in Sunday’s game, too. Part of the reason it was predictable, though, was that the zone was squeezed to a point where Hamels had to abandon the top of the strike zone.
“It’s something that to not put myself in that situation, where I have to then come with something that’s pretty predictable.” So, Delino obviously knew what he was looking for and he executed and came away the victor. “Sooner or later, I finally had to throw a pitch down the middle, because I’m not about to walk a guy in in a bases-loaded situation. “If you’re nibbling and not getting those strikes, then they get to zone in,” Hamels said. Instead, home-plate umpire James Hoye deemed it ball four.ĭeShields launched a grand slam that gave Texas a 5–4 lead.
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Hamels worked Logan Forsythe into a full count and then sent a fastball up and outside (Pitch 8 in the plot below) for what looked like a called third strike. With two outs in the fourth inning, the Cubs held a 4–1 lead and the Rangers had a runner on first. But, when the calls play a major role in how an inning develops, it’s fair to point it out. And, let’s be honest, in an 11–10 slugfest, a couple missed calls in the fourth inning were not the difference in the game’s outcome. Even I have it.”įirst, let’s get this out of the way: I never want to make a missed call the focus. I have a pretty good perspective of what’s a strike and what’s not, so I just have to kind of stay within myself, because there’s a lot of human error in this game. “I don’t think that really needs to be the focus,” Hamels said. That was clear on Sunday night, when Hamels refused to be led down the path of umpire criticism, no matter how clear it may have been that some missed calls changed the complexion of an inning and, in turn, influenced the remaining course of the game. That means those calls that don’t go his way get filtered into the no-excuses category. Hamels also knows that, ultimately, it is his job to throw the pitch and adjust not only to situations, batter’s approaches or his own effectiveness on any given night, but to adjust to an umpire’s tendencies. He’s seen plenty of calls go his way and others go against him. Notes and quotes from Sunday’s 11–10 loss to the Rangers…įIRST: Over the course of his 14 seasons in the big leagues, Cubs lefty Cole Hamels has worked with 108 umpires.
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