Tampa Bay Manager Larry Rothschild, an ex-pitcher, said a larger strike zone favors pitchers.
A larger strike zone would presumably result in more pitches being called strikes and fewer balls, more pitches being hit and fewer taken.
According to the Times, the Sunday attack, which was much larger, struck bases controlled by the Syrian Republican Guard, warehouses for long-range missiles, and a chemical-weapons facility.
Baseball officials believed that number was too high -- which could indicate that an umpire was not calling the larger strike zone.
A year ago the umpires became angered when Sandy Alderson, executive vice president for baseball operations, told an umpire in an e-mail message to "hunt for strikes" to meet baseball's desire for a larger strike zone.
Generally, larger strike length and slope width on the working face correspond with wider bed separation.
It has chosen to keep silent about this strike, presumably because it serves as a dress rehearsal and experience-gathering operation for a similar but much larger strike against Iran.
ISF members, among the first workers out of the mills, provided local leadership and strategies to the larger strike force.
Or, the source said, "after they got away" and were missing for several hours, they might have hoped to launch a previous plan for an even larger strike. .
Some surviving networks in western countries may be lying low, planning for large strikes to cause maximum casualties and political impact, on the model of the Madrid bombings.
But in the last few weeks, there have been reports — some in state newspapers — of several large strikes around the country.
