If you lose the ball mid tag then the runner is safe. You have to maintain control of the ball from the point of catching it to the point of the runner being called out.
You should hear Joyce talking about it afterwards, I feel bad for him considering all the hate and death threats he received from retards that live in Detroit.
Some of these are really close calls and shouldn't be on this list. This should be for terrible calls, not really close calls that would be nearly impossible to make with certainty without slow motion.
+Keith Austin Bronxbomber puts hard work into these and your typing a bs comment, do u know how hard it is to make these? Id like to see you do a better one.
If nobody criticizes how is he to know what he can do to make his videos even better? You're just a fucking idiot. Nothing else to even say. The world isn't a fucking "safe space" where everyone is perfect and nobody has any right to dissent.
Yeh, I know, plus he didn't include what is probably one of, if not the worst blown call in the history of MLB. A's-Indians anybody?? Ok, the putting the clips together is hard and he does a great job with that, but it starts with picking the right clips.
aviator259 That foul ball against Mauer. There is no way an ump could mess up that call he was staring right at it and called it foul when it was fair by almost a foot. Absolute BS call
At least Jim Joyce was man enough to admit that he fucked it up. He said he thought he got it right, then saw it when he got off the field and felt really bad.
I stumble across your video every so often and watch it again, and every time I get pissed that you included that last call. Are you trying to fuck with our heads? That shit was bang bang.
Last clip was a blown call? That's an extremely hard call to make. It's so close that it's hard to tell and can be argued on both sides, but most calls like that will go to the runner since ties goes to the runners.
Mikey114411 That's how it's suppose to be and good umps will use that. A lot of times they just pick the home team side so they're not booed. Other times they just suck, but I gotta give them props. It's a lot more difficult than what it looks like.
+Taylor Chase Mikey11411 is correct, there is no such rule that says tie goes to the runner. Its made up. By the way the rulebook reads it actually is the other way around. Also, I its a dumb statement. I have been umpiring 10 years now and I have worked games at every level from 10 year olds to college, and not once have I stopped and said "oh, that was a tie, that means its this call." You make a judgment one way or the other when you see it.
+NSU 42 I believe the rule book states that the runner or the base must be tagged BEFORE the runner reaches the base. Therefore by rule a tie should go to the runner
+TheBreadman904 sure is isn't it? that 09 one was especially bad though. I mean HE WAS RIGHT THERE! There's no way you miss that unless it's intentional IMO.
even tho I am a Yankees fan I'm not biased,the Yankees we're easily the best team in those days no doubt.Also 2009,plulease I'm pretty sure the Yankees would've won either way.Its not the Yankees fault that sometimes they get favored at some points,but, it's not like other teams don't.These days we're not getting favored at all.I still have faith.Also,don't come at me with "A-Roid" because David Ortiz did PEDS.Plus,we've have a long list of legends.
We're human, we all make mistakes. Some teams (like the Yankees) have lots of good luck and some teams (like my Chicago Cubs) have lots of bad luck (though this year we're pretty good)
I'm not saying that's any better or that other manipulations (across all the major sports frankly) don't happen, I believe they do. But you can't tell me that wasn't a critical play in that game. It changed the whole thing around. Going from a man on 2nd in extras to not, is not insignificant.
Everybody is gonna talk about the blown perfect game call but as a pirates fan that 19 inning game got me so damn pissed i stopped watching baseball for like a month after watching that game
+Jackson Nichols No it wasn't. There still isn't any solid proof that the catcher actually touched the runner with the tag. He swiped at him and you couldn't tell for certain if he even touched him or not. But this narrative has been created in peoples mind that it was a horrible blown call just because the catcher swiped at him so far away from home plate.
+Jackson Nichols I wouldn't say that call is as bad as people say. I have still yet to see an angle that shows the glove convincingly touching his leg there. The reason people are so uptight over that one is how the throw beat him so bad. No there are worse calls than that one, like Jeter's home run and Mauer's foul double, that we have irrefutable proof that the call was wrong. At worst this call is a missed call, not a blown call (which I would define as not just obviously wrong but egregiously wrong)
+Jackson Nichols Nah I think the Twins/Yankees blown call is worse ESPECIALLY given the stakes. I have always felt that is the most blatant fix job (by an umpire that is) of all time or at least ranks right up there. It changed that entire game and really the series with it. Mauer doubles there, the Twins perhaps take the lead/win that game and then who knows. But instead cause he didn't they got swept out. That one call had a HUGE impact on that series.
There was no blown call when Beltran fouled it. It appeared to be foul to me. Please tell me if I'm wrong because that was foul in my eyes. Like if you think Jerry Meals should be fired by the MLB.
***** Okay, thanks. I clearly must be blind if I thought Kendrick was safe lol. Also, I didn't see the ball hit the chalk I just saw it land mainly on the foul side of the bag.
The PIT-ATL clip at 6:00 is not a blown call. The catcher may have had the ball far ahead of the runner, but he did not actually make the tag. He made a poor swiping tag that did not touch the runner, thus he was safe and Atlanta won.
+molly mccabe BS. No umpire in their right mind would admit to intentionally making a wrong call so they could go home, they would be fired immediately.
This video really makes one appreciate how much instant replay has fixed. I'm an old school type of guy when it comes to baseball but replay was long overdue for the game.
Derek Colwelll That's an EXTREMELY hard call to make correctly but the definition of a blown call is a call that is wrong and can clearly be seen wether it gets slowed down or at a different angle
William Sullivan I dont watch MLB consistently, but it's my understanding that and umpires call rarely gets overturned.. so to me in that scenario at the angle the umpire was in, I cant expect him to make that call any better then he did.
First of all, the braves - pirates 19th inning call was correct, McKenry swiped and missed lugo. Second, the Yankees effing suck and they pay the umps to make the calls in their favor. Third, this channel needs more love; these compilations are EPIC
Because that kid told you to. You post what you want. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks and I might be getting a PS4 tomorrow or the next day with MLB 15 the show and do you still have Twitter
As others have stated some of these are just really close calls, I don't know if that necessarily makes them blown calls. Joyce's can in the Galarraga game was definitely a blown call, same with Tschida's phantom tag and the two guys near third with McClelland, among others you have. But I mean with that one laced down the line by Beltran, that happens so quick. The one you end on was also extremely close, the final replay shows he was out, but as an umpire me and any of my partners would have called that one a coin flip. Now the inclusion of such close calls tells you a lot about fans. Umpires are going to make mistakes and will never be 100% perfect, the expectation for them to be is insane. A point that further demonstrates this is the call by Jim Joyce. Joyce is widely considered one of the best umpires in baseball by players and coaches. Even not long after he made this mistake ESPN conducted a pole of MLB players and they had still voted him #1. Though what is everyone going to remember about Joyce when he retires. "Oh, he's that terrible umpire that blew a perfect game." Someone already said it on here. We don't remember the good umpires, we only remember the bad ones. Truer words could not have been said.I want to note that the Cardinals commentator in the Beltran clip should probably loose his job. He comments "that it is where the ball crosses the bag." And unless I'm wrong on this (I watched the clip multiple times and don't think I am), the ball clearly doesn't land until it has passed third base. Although the ump was wrong, it was fair. Where it crosses the bag is irrelevant in that case as it doesn't matter. It only matters where the ball landed. I'm pretty sure anybody paid to talk about baseball should probably know this rule.A couple of these calls are also just a mistake in positioning by the umpire or not making the proper reads to get in a better position. I would say this is true for the Pirates vs. Braves call. Their teaching umpires now to go third base line extended (imaginary line continuing past home from the third base line) generally for plays at the plate. It gives you a better look at the sweep tag generally. They also teach start at the point of the plate and make the necessary reads to get into position as the play happens. Meals goes left, or first base extended, he's blocked from getting a good look at the tag by the runner, as he also didn't take much of a read step to readjust. In the case when Helton came off the bag same issue with not taking a read step. Helton stretched towards the umpire and probably blocked him from truly seeing what happened. The umpire should have taken a step to get a better look as this was happening. Also, the commentator is wrong as that would have been a play the umpire could have asked for help on as his partners would've had additional information that he did not.
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Don Cameron I don't get it either... Catcher tags runner but drops the ball, runner touches home... how is that not safe? The one at 7:00 we're talking about, right? Just after the Jerry Meals travesty? Throw comes in, catcher tags the runner but drops the ball. Runner is safe, call is safe, where's the problem?
I've lived 35 miles from NYC my whole life so I've seen plenty of Yankees games. There is not a team in sports who gets the benefit of more shit calls than the Yankees. Thanks to the guy who made this video for reminding me that I'm not just a crazy Yankees hater. The Yankees really do get the calls year after year.
+Michael Quindlen No you are just a crazy Yankee hater, and he did just choose to focus on the ones going for, rather than the ones going against them.
+Michael Quindlen Thank you. I don't think the Yankees are necessarily paying the umps off, but I do suspect that all the Yankee prestige gives the umps just a little bit of unconscious bias which, in a split-second of doubt or uncertainty, makes them side with the NY.
I have been watching baseball for 50 years and I have never seen a more blatant blown call than the Pirates vs. Braves extra inning marathon. It was an important game for the Pirates who were in the middle of a pennant race. They were never the same team after this gamer. MLB should have investigated the home plate umpire.
+onewithmyself It could be that, at 59 years old, my eye aren't what they use to be, but it looked like he tagged him on the side of the knee and the right shoulder. It didn't look, while comparing where the ball was with the straight on slide of the base runner, that it was possible to miss the tag. Also, take a look at the reaction of the base runner. He looked resigned to the fact that he was out and couldn't believe that he was safe.
+NippleOfOdin For some reason, people love the "human" element. They're afraid of breaking away from "tradition" for the better. In other words, they love it when calls are blown.
I don't really know but it looks to me like he didn't even touch home plate. I'd like to see a different angle on that one just to see if he did or not.
Darthvader2345 Or slow it way down but it looks like he barely did. Otherwise he got his foot i'm guessing. I mean touching the catchers foot not the plate
I think the reason the Holliday was called safe was because The Home Plate Umpire said that catcher Michael Barret was Blocking the plate before he had possession of the ball so he was ruled safe.
+Ryan Petry Really? Assuming a 2.5 hour game, on a day that every team plays, there is almost 38 hours of baseball. The season is six months long. There is more than six months of baseball in the regular season. Oh and this video takes plays from multiple seasons. We are talking decades of source material here. And you think ten minutes is bad?
I know that bad ball/strike calls are a bit subjective and likely to not make it in this type of video, but there was one from a Tex/TB game where Joe Nathan struck out Ben Zobrist looking on a ball near the dirt that ended the game.
i´m trying to be unbias here and it definitively looks like he didn´t touch him with the glove. I understand the ball beat him, and that he was in front, but it looks like he never tagged him, it looks more like a bullfighting courting.
+Caleb Hinrichs What about the ones that don't go their way though? There are just as many of those, but they didn't get on this video for some reason.
Life before the challenge/replay - Every moment on this list is sad and embarrassing for umpires. It was hard to move on past such awful calls from the past. You feel like the game no longer matters. Nothing matters. If the umpire is in a bad mood, he can do whatever he wants.
For a future vid: the Yankees got screwed in a playoff race a few years ago. 9/9/12, blown call to end the game against the Orioles. Keep up the good work!
