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Pulled up the statcast for all the balls called in the game. Six, and possibly seven, all to Robbie Ray that ought to have been called strikes. Three of them came in the 6th. One to DJ might seem inconsequential, except he makes the adjustment and puts it a little higher to Stanton...still a ball instead of strike three. The Yanks had exactly one like this each.

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Despite the result I can't cast any serious doubt on not pulling Robbie Ray. Hudson was awful, and his terrible strike zone affected far too much of this game. In the walk to Stanton that followed he threw a 2-2 slider that ought to have been called strike three also. He'd been calling a low zone all game and then suddenly a pitch that actually caught the zone is a ball. You add that to the terrible call on Rizzo's AB and this inning never happens.

While it certainly happened to the Yankees too we also had other ABs where early strikes that were 4 to 6 inches outside put Jays hitters behind and left us right where Kluber wanted us. A pitcher working us away with 6 inches of extra strike zone to work with.

I can't hang it all on Hudson of course. We got plenty of cookies we didn't hit too, but coupled with terrible umpiring in the Twins series I do get incensed about the outsized roles some umpires have had in mucking up game outcomes.

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