There have been a spate of recent games like this. Lieber’s yesterday, but in a different way Robert Person’s, too. A much different way.
It isn’t that Person didn’t get bombed, but that he struck out 9 and walked none. Here Nomo, who many thought would benefit from the high strike, whiffs 14 and walks… none.
As soon as I close this blasted football magazine I’m going to track down the umpire ERAs, even if I have to joing a betting service to get them. There are definitely some guys calling the New Strike Zone, others’ calling the Old Strike Zone, and yet other calling both at once.