Yeah, very true. That particular pitch was indeed a ball. Although sadly, in the realm of bad calls it was nothing you would call egregious.
I've come to the conclusion that we'll never, ever see automated ball and strike calls, and maybe just as well. It would be too profound of a change. I think we'll definitely see expansion of replay. On balls and strikes we may see MLB do more monitoring of umps that fall too far outside the norm.