MLB - Unpleasant Umpiring

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[@EnigWHYmatic]

Leaning into a pitch is apparently “unpleasant umpiring” now.

[@davidforbes4392]

Right! Those calls were the only correct ones in the video!

[@saysikerightnow3914]

That's exactly what I was thinking. Those were definitely correct calls.

[@user-ux1zr4ue7e]

I'll watch baseball again after they remove umps and replace them with computers.

[@andrewp2681]

He did, but I don’t think it was intentional. Looks like it was more of a reaction to seeing a ball pitched at you.

[@killa2488]

Those "leaning into the pitch" calls were fantastic

[@AodhanPerry]

agreed

[@3G2J]

4:12 that was one of the best World Series calls by an umpire all time.

[@Baseball_Prods-05]

the best call of the video

[@kirby_salt1975]

even as an astros fan, i agree. very well done.

[@mark_77_66]

yep diaz leaned into that. no real astro fan will doubt that

[@RadioactiveSherbet]

3:18 Looks to me like he leaned into it. Even if it wasn't his intention, it certainly looked like it, and I can see how the umpire could see it that way.

[@hungstepbro]

Didn't mean to do it but it was the right call

[@jeremiahbachmann3901]

Obvious that he was trying to get an HIB.

[@yach2009]

Jomboy did a breakdown of this, I don't have a link. The angle of the broadcast deceives you. Look at the trajectory of the pitch from the lefty..the ball appears to be going behind him which is why he didn't react initially and actually leans forward, then, the pitch has quite a late break.

[@yach2009]

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[@patrickkanas3874]

Definitely the right call. I remember Nyjer Morgan getting called on that a number of times because he leaned into pitches all the time, but he did so in a way that looked like he was trying to get out if the way

[@heavyspark813]

I am strill shocked umps dont get hit with bats more often

[@dennishammond1919]

MLB needs to investigate these umpires some strikes calls were so far off the plate. They might have money on the game.

[@swagmuffin9000]

Investigate? I'm sure they know all about it and don't really care

[@generatorx]

@@swagmuffin9000 You're right on queue. If Angel Hernandez still has a job, then MLB sure does not care. Maybe if people stop paying for tickets and merchandise, the league will wake up.

[@billkneller2779]

Umpiring is hurting baseball. Aren't these umpires suppose to be the best of the best, I don't think so.

[@Dustin.Born.]

Players get fined all the time. I think umpires should get fined for bad calls. Especially important ones. They review their games anyway, so make them have consequences.

[@thomassullivan1207]

Many of those calls were egregious, no doubt. But some of those were pretty close. 2 strikes you gotta protect the plate.

[@JohnMead-lk2wu]

When are umpires going to called out and be held accountable for the very, very sorry calls. They need to be fined and if that doesn't fix the problem then fire them

[@ghostcrawler]

Baseball needs to have fighting just like hockey. And the Umpire's need to be ready to throw down at anytime. It would resolve a lot of the umpires having a power trip.

[@akassault7515]

Agreed. Watching some of these nhl coaches cussing out refs is part of the game. These umps are giant pussies.

[@user-tu8lt1ke3h]

he leaned into it. good call

[@papadartman]

Angel Hernandez highlight real.

[@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson]

The Galarraga almost perfect game is memorable *because* of the blown call. I couldn’t even tell you who threw the last perfect game without looking it up.

[@generatorx]

Domingo German.

[@franciscoorranti3803]

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[@franciscoorranti3803]

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[@pstowitts]

Don't argue with the gods of the game!

[@patrickkanas3874]

The problem with some of these calls is that you can only tell that pitch is a strike or a ball because of that box on your tv screen? So can you really blame the ump for missing a call that's off by an inch, especially when the catcher sells the pitch?

[@generatorx]

Umpires are supposedly trained to see if the ball crosses the plate while in the vertical strike zone, not where the catcher fields the pitch. If these highly paid guys cannot consistently do their job, maybe they need to stand in the unemployment line.

[@jacobheileson9750]

4:15 Diaz absolutely leaned into it

[@KingSaint007]

I'm surprised none of those umpires didn't receive death threats from fans

[@timhobbs1229]

Being a Umpire myself, I feel the strike zone shown on the camera is a delusion, and should be removed. It's not an accurate measure by any means. I watch these zones and pitches and shake my head. Arm chair Umps. Need to calm down

[@mercdragons]

So when they show the overhead view and it's off the plate it's the boxes fault not the ump? Sure keep telling yourself that.

[@DirtSailor5]

Being an ump is a hard job but going by the book that TV strike zone looks pretty accurate and all balls and strikes should be reasonably around the box. Being off by 6" in any given direction is too much The rule book even has a pretty picture to go to the definition. "The STRIKE ZONE is that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants, and the lower level is a line at the hollow beneath the kneecap. The Strike Zone shall be determined from the batter’s stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball. (For diagram of STRIKE ZONE, see Appendix 5.)"

[@generatorx]

@@mercdragons Yup, and if you are an umpire by profession, you should be a hell of a lot more accurate than some of these bozos. On top of that, if the zones are not an accurate measure, then why are the players upset when the pitch is outside.

[@swagmuffin9000]

Some of these were the right call. I also think both of the hbp leaned into it

[@Big_facts2]

Do these umps make a decision pregame to expand the zone in a certain area?

[@boom-bm1kl]

I didn't know it was possible tor Angel Hernandez to be in so many places at once...

[@stevegabbert9626]

I wouldn't want to be an umpire. It's virtually impossible to make the right call every single time.

[@EdStarwind]

You know what... Are a lot of these calls bad? Yes. Are a lot of them close enough that without a computer catching it that there would be less complaining? Yes. The bigger issue I see, aside from the blatant missed calls that happen, is the readyness of players and coaches to fuss, cuss, throw things, and generally lose their cool over a single call. When umpires were treated like gentlemen, and they treated the players/coaches like gentlemen, you saw a lot fewer ejections, and a lot fewer umpires ready to eject everyone. At 80-90 mph, the ball coming straight at you has less than a second to be called a ball or strike. My opinion is that even if it is not the "armpit to knee" zone, if it is pretty much consistent and fair, go with it. Then, if you have an issue, be a man about it, not throwing a tantrum.

[@billbowers4673]

You sound like an umpire. The problem is, there is no accountability for the umpires now because their union is too strong. This is why umpires the likes of Joe West and Angel Hernandez were/are allowed to continue ruining the game. It's a beautiful game if you let the players decide it. The best games I ever watched were the ones where I had no idea who the umpire was. The problem is, now they want to be part of the game.

[@EdStarwind]

@@billbowers4673 I have umpired little league before, but more than that, I just love baseball. I agree that the best umpires are the ones you have to look at the program/scorecard to know who they are. They are there to facilitate the game, not dictate it.

[@practicalparenting]

Also as an umpire, I played in college, it looks like MOST of these guys may “love” the game but NEVER played. They don’t have a real feel about hitting.

[@maddybutyoutube]

rizzo leaned his leg into the pitch lol

[@mikehoefer1827]

Never seen an ump thrown out. Must have one heckuva union.

[@kathybricks2827]

Pitched balls should be reviewable when THEY'RE called wrong !!

[@deanfawley3379]

Maybe we need to use the song to delineate the strike zone. “Head and shoulders, knees and toes”

[@yach2009]

3:42 This clip and the next one have multiple instances of the same ump in the same game. At what point, even if the umpires are calling it bad but consistent, does the earnest switch to the offensive team to adjust and foul off those questionable calls that have a pattern of being called a strike. You adjust to the hand you're dealt, even if the umpire is wrong or egregious.

[@theeoarsman921]

The umpiring just keeps getting worse and worse!!!

[@jimbeam275]

3:19 this call is 100% correct, probably the only one

[@bradleyisclutch]

we literally are in a point in time where umpires could be completely replaced by modern technology. They could put chips in bags and balls to even know if the runner hit home before the ball got there i’m sure. Perfect pitch calls. not saying i’m for that, but these umpires got some bad calls sometimes lol.

[@MikeWalko]

I hate so many teams play by play. Obviously most of these calls are bad but some of the strike calls are a little close and the announcers just knee-jerk defend their team to the death like they cannot think for themselves.

[@thefamilymans2545]

I cant believe there is a sport where a ref/empire has so much power with no checks....

[@aidanfairweather5271]

Some of these calls make Angel Hernandez look good

[@billcary30]

that play with gant around 0:55 if i'm any good at reading lips ump said i don't care.

[@stefanjentoft8107]

1:46 you know a call is bad when even baserunner called safe is holding his head in shock and shame

[@andrewbranson8539]

Not just a bad call, but it cost the pitcher a no-hitter. Should've been the last out of the game.

[@alaineninmah7040]

This is what makes base ball great, human error. It happens, will happen, and can happen. Its part of the game

[@goodgreen4616]

Not for long. Be all all computer/AI/camera/ with no more ump betting and calling to win their bets

[@bigman7293]

1:36 I was watching that game live. It was absolutely horrible. That ump just wanted to go home smh

[@michaeljanosik5214]

All of the calls against the Yankees were 100% correct! 😉

[@jackmehoff6302]

3:20... absolute correct call

[@yach2009]

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[@misskristinyoo]

Every ballpark should have the pitch zone in real time on the jumbo screen so the ump can see how terrible they are in real time with the fans.

[@frostywarrior4649]

It was really one of right call in this video and that was the one where the Yankee player didn't get out the way of that hbp

[@ccink3931]

1:50 isn't fair... The ump legitimately felt bad and made both private + public apologies for that missed call & it was before u could challenge so I give him a break tbh

[@wiseogjc370]

Angel Hernandez would fill up this low light reel by himself.

[@JohnSmith-ug5ci]

Baseball needs instant repay checks.

[@franciscoorranti3803]

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[@onesixgg]

6:12 not only is that low and inside, but the catcher framed it outside the strike zone.

[@rickiesteward883]

If an umpire can throw a player out of the game for what he considers a marginal infraction of decorum, then why can’t a team manager have an umpire tossed for making obviously verifiable bad calls. Seems to me that the umps are depriving the teams of a player that cost a lot of money and they are posturing more as judges than umpires. I think that would only be fair to let the managers have a little authority. Kind of balance things out. This is exactly why I refuse to attend or even watch a pro baseball game. The umps make it NOT FUN.

[@steventhrasher3608]

For those unaware, that call at about 40 seconds in where the ump called Ron Gant out when Kent Hrbek lifted his leg off the base was made in the World Series. So it was an even more egregiously bad call.

[@patrickkanas3874]

Yeah, but at full speed, it may have looked like momentum carried him off the bag. I think it was a bad call, but we have the benefit of slow-motion replays

[@user-co2fc2sd7o]

That Gant Verbeck play should of been questionable

[@generatorx]

Hrbek definitely pulled Gant off the bag. The ump claimed that Gant's momentum lead him off the base.

[@mrthugger4608]

why’s everyone acted like they never played little league, if he constantly calls balls strikes you jus gotta swing🤣

[@richmyklebust9160]

The two "leaning into the pitch" were the only correct calls in this video. The rest were absolutely awful.

[@jpcad7954]

Something as to be done with all of those bad calls that umps are getting away with.

[@bbayerit]

This video proves that MLB needs to automate ball and strike calls. Either that or umps need eye exams before during and after each game.

[@nerdynerd6724]

Not really. The MLB needs an umpire who is consistent with the calls and keep him behind the plate.

[@lscales6131]

Yours talking about a 10 mins video of calls through the decades. Most umpires have an accuracy rating of 97% or better. None fall below 94% except I think 4 or 5 and we all know who is one of them but honestly they aren’t that bad. Now thin skinned for sure but honestly have you seen the minor leagues with the auto umps? It’s boring as hell.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

Eye exams don't help when the ump is out of position. Some set up to the side more than others. It makes calls on strikes vs balls easy to fabricate.

[@davidlibby5430]

Coke bottle bottoms for glasses!

[@WhoIsThatGuy1]

Put it this way; if MLB got out of umpires, we wouldn’t have content to talk about. Like this.

[@shannonney3028]

The power that umpires have in this game is terrible. I cannot think of another sport where you can be ejected from the game as easily. Majority of the plate umps are children that can't handle someone telling them they're wrong.

[@davidjohannes9758]

It's going to a long season with the umpiring crews they have now

[@obscurity3027]

We have the technology to remove umpires from the game completely. The only reason they don’t is because bookies won’t be able to affect the outcome of games anymore.

[@jpaulmoen]

They're working themselves out of a job.

[@chaset42]

I was waiting for angel hernandez to make an appearance but then I realized he probably gets his own video, which might take a few weeks to upload

[@wncryder]

Do any of these umpires go back and watch the game and see how bad their ball-strike calls were?

[@ronaldbuck7594]

Maybe they need to set up a frame around the strike zone so the umpire can see it

[@aneyesky]

Marsh- please shave and a haircut already

[@vernonbear]

In the sport I watch most, football or soccer to the American readers, if a Referee has a great game then you don’t even notice them, they keep the game fair and call it correctly. It seems to me that you’ve got quite the collection of Umpires who a) actually want to be noticed and b) they can’t resist making calls that satisfy point a. The sport is too reliant on these men with egos who love to throw players out and who HAVE to do something that will make it onto the sports news headlines. They don’t appear to want a clean, fair game that’s won by the best team.

[@locklearkelvin]

They need to start fining the umpires for bad calls or make it so they can be thrown out of a game if they 3or4 bad calls something needs to happen and not automated balls and strikes that's asking for perfection and will completely change the game way to much

[@jameshopkins6853]

I keep seeing the same horrible umps in several horrible calls on this video.

[@corydriver7634]

What? No need to of these were Angel Hernandez? 😂

[@michaelv3340]

Wow, the two worst calls as a Braves fan. Gant getting yanked off first base against Minnesota, and Gregg's ridiculous strike calls in Miami.

[@sterlingpahl7327]

When I was at a softball game I was up to bat and the ball bounced on home plate and the ump called strike one ☝️

[@andrewt.9294]

1:45 one of the most painful baseball clips out there

[@patrickkanas3874]

But at least Joe West acknowledged his mistake. He said that when he saw the replay after the game, he broke down crying over it and profusly apologized to Gallaraga for what he did. Gallaraga was always a good sport over it and never held it against West. So you at least gotta respect the professionalism the two showed in the aftermath

[@NervEoE]

At this poiunt we need computers to call ball or strike lmao

[@dominicolimpio9626]

2:08 he is safe

[@crimsonknight7011]

Then you have Angel Hernandez this last weekend with all 3 strikes being way out of the strike box, one even being more than 6” away

[@ianholmen888]

It’s still unbelievable the consistent strike zone Livan Hernandez got in that game against the braves. And the coolest part is watching the braves take it like men. They are dissapointed but know they can’t do anything, if that was today every call would end in an ejection.

[@alinevenorion4718]

I wonder if Profar bothered to look at the frame by frame at 1:06 to see that he actually went, not sure what this clip is doing here.

[@theinc1776]

Catchers just doing there job

[@trevordavies2829]

If a few well heeled fans got a decent law firm - sue the union for damaging the fans’ experience. Someone who’s obviously frustrated not to be playing himself shouldn’t ruin the game for tens of thousands of fans. BTW - I don’t watch this sport.

[@markeyfarrell]

ELECTRIC UMPS...DIGITAL CALLS FOR STRIKES & BALLS

[@jeffb.3174]

which sport has the worst officials calling the game? i vote Basketball, baseball a close second

[@Gator-xi2jq]

Every umpire in these videos should have been fired

[@johnkeeton8119]

If it’s close, I can’t argue l

[@jaywebb0113]

sheez I thought the calls in the NFL were bad

[@user-cz2uz4hj5g]

The umpires are why I don’t watch baseball

[@cowboysfandow]

Baseball should get rid of tossing people. Gives umps a power trip, and no accountability for their actions.

[@r0cky_2010]

2021 in the dodgers giants rivalry is a year of bad calls.

[@rahrah5091]

Okay a Ump can eject a player. I think after so many bad calls the Ump is ejected and or replaced.

[@flierhill176]

We should have replay on the plate on balls and s strikes !!

[@franciscoorranti3803]

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[@rutoppgames3754]

I agree with 3:14

[@reorena6067]

際どいのはしょうがないが、明らかに酷いジャッジに関しては審判も罰則があるべきだ。

[@Wyatt-GQIEKW]

Its stupid because the umpire just ejects them because he knows that their right

[@user-id4ln8ev8u]

メジャーの審判には動体視力の適正テストを導入すべきじゃないのかな？選手は最高レベルかもしれないけど審判のレベルに差がありすぎると思うな。

[@xrude7875]

i don't know how they don't deck the umps . but thats why i stopped watching baseball . some day i hope they will use the tech we have . and no blind umps shouldn't be part of the game

[@carterahern4166]

Dude sliding into second when the glove came off is out still he had possession of the ball in his glove and made the tag then the glove came off the runner should be out

[@user-lq4jr9mr9r]

They need better umpires

[@jeremyfoster6942]

You need DRS, and you need the umpire to stand behind the pitcher not the batter!,

[@melissapeters8030]

This show how assi umps are

[@Theperson139]

Any video from before the 2000s should be ignored, umpiring was not good back then