re: Minnesota just got hosed

It was a strike, but it was just one pitch in a whole game of correct calls and incorrect calls. In the previous inning or two, Osorio struck out a Gopher hitter on a 3-2 pitch, but the ump called the pitch a ball, the girl walked and it almost led to a run which could have won the game for the Gophers on a bad pitch call. In Sotball as in Baseball in close games, an umpires missed ball and strike calls always factor into the game, because they can not possibly get them all right, it is the reason coaches are not permitted to argue them.