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How the strike zone affects everything

Marlins right hander Livan Hernandez threw 143 pitches one October evening in 1997, but it was a collection of 37 that have since lived on in infamy. Those were the called strikes. Those were the throws that left Atlanta hitters fuming and Atlanta fans furious.As it turns out, there were two broken records that night. One was literal, with Hernandez setting the NLCS strikeout mark by fanning 15 Braves en route to Florida's first pennant. The other was figurative, with home plate umpire Eric Men UGG Boots Clearance Gregg ringing up batters over and over and over again on pitches that looked at least three inches off the outside corner.Hernandez, a rookie at the time, went on to win series MVP, but he was hardly the most potent force in that pivotal Game 5. Nope, that honor went to the strike zone a cosmic entity UGG Boots Clearance Sale Women that has forever been baseball's snowflake. No two are exactly like.Information graphicChasing the strike zoneBaseball America voted Gregg's officiating as the Majors' third worst umpiring performance during the last quarter UGG Classic Tall Clearance of the 20th century. But in reality, his may have simply been the zone that got caught. For something that is supposed to be as objective as the solution to a math problem, the strike zone continues to endure with the subjectivity of an inkblot shrinking, expanding, shifting, deceiving and affecting outcomes with double agent stealth."I don't see it," said Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner. "The strike zone's the strike zone."If only, Madison. If only."The strike zone is that area over home plate, the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap. The strike zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball." Rule 2.00 of the MLB Rulebook.There UGGS Clearance Sale Outlet is the definition. There is the characterization of a strike, which may very well be the most significant rule in team sports. If hitting a baseball really is the most difficult feat in athletics, then the area determining when a batter must swing should be categorically identified.Theoretically, given what's at stake in this game of inches, there should be no disputes, discrepancies or disagreements whatsoever when it comes to the strike zone. In reality, it may be the most pored over rectangle this side of Pythagoras.