I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – it’s been another brutal season for MLB umpires.
They’ve struggled time and again to make the right calls, sometimes even after watching them on replays, which makes things incredibly frustrating for fans but even more so for the players and managers in the games.
We had another brutal call in Sunday’s Braves-Brewers game that didn’t have an affect on the outcome but it was just such a laughably bad call that we need to share it with the world.
Check out how far outside this pitch was and how Roberto Ortiz had no problem calling it a strike:
— Welcome to the Ump Show (@umpjob) August 1, 2021
I mean, come on! The ump was set up directly over home plate and that ball was well outside of home plate – heck, it was even in the other batters’ box – but he still called it a strike.
Just terrible, though the announcers were pretty great.
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