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Umpire at Little League World Series Should be Ashamed of This Horrible Called Third Strike

This wasn’t even close.

Andy Nesbitt

Umpire at Little League World Series Should be Ashamed of This Horrible Called Third Strike
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The Little League World Series is off and running in Williamsport, Pa., which means it’s almost the end of summer fun for all of us. 

It also means some kids are going to make memories that will last forever on some of the sweetest fields a young kid could dream of playing on.

With the good, however, comes some bad as each year it seems like the umpires working these games have no idea what a strike zone should look like. 

Cuba learned that lesson early in its loss to Japan on Wednesday when one of its players was struck out looking on a pitch that was a mile outside of the zone. 

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That was just awful. 

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Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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