Pitch F/X From Roy Halladay's No-No Backs Umpire Over Orlando Cabrera

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Orlando Cabrera wasn't willing to admit that Roy Halladay was on his game on Wednesday. Facing 28 batters and retiring 27 of them without a hit impressed just about everyone else on the planet, but Orlando wasn't having it. Cue the eerie synthesizer music because someone's got a conspiracy theory.

"(Halladay) was basically getting every pitch," said Cabrera. "We had no chance."

Cabrera was correct. Halladay was basically getting every pitch, but it wasn't because umpire John Hirschbeck had some predilection for the Phillies ace. It was because he was hitting the strike zone more often than not and, whether Cabrera likes it or not, that means his pitches should be called strikes.

 

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