Did he cost the game? No way you can say that. However, the Kepler AB was so egregious that you also don't know what might have occurred with an "honest" and competant zone in play. Hit, walk, advance of the runners? It's a shame we'll never know. It's a simple fact of humans being humans that an ump may miss a call or two and different umps will have slight variations in their strike zone. It's a human factor and not a declaration for robot strike zone calls. But how can someone be that utterly and obviously incompetent and have a ML job? But thank you, Tom, for providing some real humor from a dark moment.