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The Los Angeles Angels are working out a few kinks at this point in the season. A recent point of contention came on Friday ...
Baseball fans want home plate umpire C.B. Bucknor fired after several missed calls in the Blue Jays-Guardians game.
Umpires are obviously not perfect ... Duran was tagged just before touching the plate. Miller announced the call was reversed, prompting boos from the crowd. Then, out of nowhere, an F-bomb ...
Major League Baseball umpire Ron Kulpa had a night to forget Tuesday in Minnesota as he missed a wild amount of calls while working home plate in the Twins' 9-1 victory over the visiting Baltimore ...
The whole point of replay is to get calls right rather than just going with the ruling on the field, but that doesn’t mean an umpire can’t feel bad for missing the call. The play in question ...
home plate umpire Alex Tosi. The popular @UmpScorecards X/Twitter account found that Tosi missed 15 of 161 total calls, or over 9%, at Kauffman Stadium. Nine of the 53 called strikes were actually ...
especially with catchers expertly framing pitches to influence calls. One intriguing trend is that softball pitching ERAs have been slightly higher this season, with umpires tightening strike zones.