It was on the corner. Just a great pitch more than anything. And? You don't take pitches on the corner with two strikes against you, especially with the bases loaded in a tie game in the 8th inning. What if the same pitch was just called a ball? You don't swing at balls just so you can strike out and "go down like a man" I just saw the pitch on Baseball Tonight. You don't take that pitch. Come on, you've seen enough baseball games to know that you have to protect the plate with two strikes, again, especially in that situation. Did you see the 3 pitches prior that were called balls in the same spot? exactly. its not about where the pitch wsa at. It's that the pitch before it was in the SAME spot and called a ball.