Umpires - S/D

The ball is three inches high, the pitcher stepped off the rubber right before the pitch

Angel Hernandez: "Strike three!" pic.twitter.com/FtFHaLYKQY

— Welcome to the Ump Show (@umpjob) April 7, 2024

I've seen more horrific ball/strike calling this year already than I saw all of last year

Umpire Brennan Miller missed 10 calls in the first 4 innings and 9 went against the Twins.

He then called two more bad strikes to ring up Matt Wallner and ejected the hitting coach for complaining.

Miller missed 22 calls in the game and 17 went against the Twins. pic.twitter.com/sk6dhCueAF

— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) April 7, 2024

Nobody does it better

Umpire: Angel Hernandez
Final: Rangers 12, Astros 8#StraightUpTX // #Relentless#TEXvsHOU // #HOUvsTEX

More stats for this game 👇https://t.co/RJKSQogI6y pic.twitter.com/uRM1ykGr3R

— Umpire Scorecards (@UmpScorecards) April 13, 2024

curious about how this CWS-CIN ump gets rated, he was in a different universe in the top of the 2nd.

from that ^^^ angel game:

** NEW UMPIRE AUDITOR RECORD **

Umpire Angel Hernandez rang up Wyatt Langford on three consecutive pitches out of the zone.

The strikeout pitch missed outside by 6.78 inches.

This was the largest miss on a called strikeout in Umpire Auditor history. pic.twitter.com/BWmizkDsmD

— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) April 13, 2024

hunter wendelstadt put on a real show in the bronx today

https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-boone-ejected-in-first-inning-of-yankees-game-against-a-s

Hunter Wendelstedt showcasing some good old fashioned umpire insecurity early in this game today. The broadcast was showing Boone live as the ejection happened - he was merely chewing some gum lol

Absolutely unreal quote

More Hunter Wendelstedt: "Apparently what he said was there was a fan right above the dugout. This isn’t my first ejection. In the entirety of my career, I have never ejected a player or a manager for something a fan has said. I understand that’s going to be part of a story or…

— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) April 22, 2024

More Hunter Wendelstedt: "Apparently what he said was there was a fan right above the dugout. This isn’t my first ejection. In the entirety of my career, I have never ejected a player or a manager for something a fan has said. I understand that’s going to be part of a story or something like that because that’s what Aaron was portraying. I heard something come from the far end of the dugout, had nothing to do with his area but he’s the manager of the Yankees. So he’s the one that had to go.”

Jomboy media broke this down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojqxAZuHrhM

Posnanski has a 10 Worst Strike Calls since 2018 rundown in today's (free) post:

https://open.substack.com/pub/joeposnanski/p/free-friday-going-to-the-dogs?r=1jtu0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

You can also read about how lousy his fantasy team is (last place).

(Only one of the 10 calls is you-know-who.)

Awful.

"Let's go!" — Umpire Rob Drake hollering at injured Byron Buxton to hustle off the field pic.twitter.com/atFUnHFP8J

— The Twins Almanac (@TwinsAlmanac) May 1, 2024

his twitter seems chill, idk

“I will be buying an AR-15 tomorrow, because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL WAR!!! #MAGA2020”

(it's long deleted, but the articles mention "yeah, so it's THIS guy")

Aaron Civale War

this may or may not have been a strike, and yes 'you cannot argue balls and strikes' but ffs show a tiny bit of perspective before ejecting one of the biggest (and legendarily nicest) stars in the game *when he's walking away*

Aaron Judge gets ejected for the first time in his MLB career pic.twitter.com/2dzjp45kju

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 4, 2024

lmao this game was in a rain delay for hours in the bottom of the 10th with the bases loaded and two outs

I can't believe the White Sox/Cardinals game ended like this 🤦‍♂️

"Not even close."

"You've gotta be kidding me."pic.twitter.com/OoWXvh6NMA

— Baseball Legends (@Leg_baseball) May 5, 2024

Omg the umpire just wanted to go home