As we mentioned last night, after the Reds' Orlando Cabrera was co-no-hit by the Phillies' Roy Halladay, he wasn't very happy about it.
Orlando Cabrera Was Wrong About Roy Halladay’s No-Hitter, Among Other Things
"[...] he and the umpire pitched a no-hitter. He gave him every pitch. Basically, we had no chance."
After the jump, please see irrefutable evidence suggesting that Roy Halladay and umpire John Hirschbeck were in league with one another. No, wait, that's not right.
Fangraphs has posted a pitch chart that documents each of Halladay’s pitches last night. The verdict: of all the pitches Halladay threw, Hirschbeck called three strikes that were out of the strike zone (and even those were very close). If anything, Hirschbeck called a slightly more forgiving game against the Reds’ pitchers.
While Cabrera’s comments were ill-informed, I completely understand his frustration. This team hasn’t been to the playoffs since 1995, and it wasn’t expected by most to reach the playoffs this year. Being no-hit is a terribly frustrating experience to begin with; being the second team in history to be no-hit in the postseason must be even less fun.
Now that we know what's wrong, let's take a look at statementFX, our means of determining whether given statements are correct or incorrect, to gauge each of the statements made by Orlando Cabrera on Wednesday night:
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