Okay so as a former Umpire myself let's get something clear here. The box on the screen is two-dimensional.... the strike zone is not. If it helps you to visualize... the strike zone is a 'gym locker' the shape of the plate that has a bottom at the batter's knee-cap and a top at the 'top of the zone' for the level (there are three strike zones in baseball... the Little League zone, the High School zone, and the pro/college zone). If the ball AT ANY POINT crosses into the strike zone it doesn't matter where it ends up in the catcher's mitt. So balls that look 'outside', 'high', etc. according to the 'box' are, more often than not, a strike because the ball went THROUGH the strike zone to get to that point.
Aww, forgive the defensive players. It was probably their first ever game of baseball. How can they be expected to know this rule? Yeah, let's go with that. They didn't know a basic rule of the game because these major league players, supposedly professionals, have never played baseball before.
It's amazing that they replayed the end of that game after the umpires made the mistake of discounting Brett's homer. Only for KC to beat the Yankees out of the series. George Brett sure was a character! Lucky he didn't have a stroke with that temper. It was a pretty horrendous call.
I love how everything now follows a script title for views. I grew up near Kansas City and he did admit he was wrong. He wouldnt have if he didnt get caught. Famous Pine Tar Incident
