06/29 - Brewers (Ford) @ Twins (Reed)

[hardytheman]

the umpiring was fine.

 

All of the calls on the basepaths were legit except may Doug M. pick off at second, it was close on replay.

 

Gardenhire had no beef about balls and strikes, I think he was just trying to fire his team up and had a tee time at 3 so he had to go.

[mothershipconnection]

The homeplate ump (can't rememeber who) was maintaining a large strike zone, and not just for the Twins. I have no problem with a guy expanding or shrinking the strike zone, as long as he does it with both teams, which he did in this case. So yeah, pitches just off the edges were called strikes, but they were called that way on us too.