21.   Major-league umpires are actually calling strikes strikes.

22.   Pitchers such as Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux of Atlanta have made their living making hitters chase pitches wide of the strike zone because umpires have called them strikes.

23.   Plate umpire DiMuro called a balk on Belcher after fake pickoff attempts to third and first.

24.   Rarely did umpires call it for strikes, and Cone was not casting the pitch close enough to home plate to tempt hitters into swinging.

25.   Since the umpires had not called interference against him, there was no reason for him to be ejected from the stadium.

26.   The ball went past the pole, and the umpire called it foul.

27.   The goal is to have umpires call a uniform strike zone.

28.   The line umpire called it properly, but the Chinese had no replay to reassure them.

29.   The reality is no one even knows if umpires will call pitches the way they have been instructed.

30.   The rules already allow umpires to call a strike against batters who refuse to step in when ordered to do so.