JT Realmuto tells the ump he got hit and Bud Black gets mad, a breakdown 

a man of the people

also Black: check the replay Ump: NO

@@Pipiopy We all just checked the replay. Was it conclusive to you? I would say that could have been a 50/50 split which would probably have resulted in the call remaining as it stands.

​@@richcoe9273 Bud's argument was completely valid so who cares that the replay quality was dogshit.

Black had every reason to be super pissed imo.

Yeah well maybe Bud should have saved his challenge for a "big part of the game", instead of wasting it in the first inning...

@@grahmthrush4924Maybe the ump needs to make a call based on what happened, not the player telling him to.

I really honestly eenjoy this stuff keep up the great work.

@@mlbhighlights1177 Or...and hear me out on this....both?!

I'd say 97% correct. He is upset that a player talked the ump into a call. And then wants the ump to let him talk his way into a challenge. He is right it was bs in the first place, and right to complain, but he essentially wants the ref to do the same wrong thing again.

He's right. Realmuto manipulated the situation knowing that if he got it past the ump, it couldn't be challenged. If you let players get away with that kind of thing, it'll just happen more. I don't understand why the ump decided to be such a pushover then, but stubborn when it came to an ump review.

Speaking of, imagine if Bud Black was given a good team for once. Dude’s been cursed with mediocre teams at best, usually crap ones-but the mediocre ones finish with 90 wins and the crappy ones still win about 75

@@warlordofbritannia totally agree! That's what I was saying about our manager of the Mets Buck Showalter when he was on a very not good Orioles team

@@dansawyer4332 great point and but black was completely right when he asked who's making the freaking call you or the player? The place should never be able to make a call like that that was ridiculous The ball didn't even graze him

@@dansawyer4332 Giving way once is bad enough, doing it a second time might lead to anarchy, hence it didn't happen.

If someone wants to be an ump, they also have to be humble enough to say, well maybe I should double check before I dismiss someone saying I screwed up

It's interesting tho because if he really thinks that he heard something-which he seems to-then Realmuto's reaction is further evidence that he was correct, meaning he shouldn't overturn it. In the end I think he got the call wrong but 1. I could be wrong, and 2. From his perspective he had multiple pieces of evidence that he was correct so why would he review it

Or, you know, the 3B can not commit errors.

​@@ReidTheRulesGuyThe problem was he said "I think". Had he said "I did", then that would be different. He's saying he's not sure but he is also saying he won't use the tools provided to him to confirm.

Yall need to get behind the plate if yall are so perfect

it needs to be on a T-shirt.

And we all know that the umpires and MLB don't care about the sanctity of the game.

Padres legend bud black is the most calmest arguer all time lmao

Yeah man good play all around imo. Blues stuck on his call and not being a superstar about it, Realmuto and Castellanos getting all they can and Bud Black getting ejected but not making a big drama about it. I love baseball

Honestly coaches get purposely ejected/ask to be ejected all the time to show solidarity for their team

Ump knew Bud wasn't leaving until a replay or an ejection. Ump's ego got in the way after his initial lie. MLB should punish the ump.

@@blackforesthamsandwich2310 no dude they just wanna go home early. The sport is just boring 😂

Same, and it was soooo accurate too, could have been a genuine impression.

That got me too. He was super Larry David there.

Literally 😂😂🔥

6 videos in 24 hours

Dude has been on top of baseball coverage for FIVE YEARS and is only gonna continue to grow ! 🙏

No he's not. He got more wrong than he got right here. Why do you all snuggle his sack so hard?

@@J.C... why are you so jaded

Based on the views Jomboy showed I don't think we can 100% say the call was wrong. Though if I had to guess with only those views then I would say it didn't hit him

The batter leaned into the ball with his arm as well which should have been called.

@@rodneymartin6154 I was going to say it definitely looks like his arm got grazed, which would count as a hit-by-pitch. The better argument for the Rockies is that he leaned into it instead of getting out of the way.

There is zero evidence that he got hit.

@@tommystizzle6560 On the slow motion replay from the top camera, it does look a little like the skin on his forearm near the elbow ripples after the ball goes past. It's also not like this would be the first time an umpire took the hitter's word that he was hit. I've seen plenty of cases where the home plate ump wasn't going to call anything until the batter mentioned getting hit.

Heh. "Ump"teenth

Umpteenth 😂😂

Exactly lol

The hair is part of the arm!!!!

I think so too. Now is the hair an extension of the arm like an ump is an extension of the field? I believe so. Take your base, batter.

On top of that he leans into it lol

@@xeralt3120 i don't think he leaned into it. It looks like he was just getting ready to swing then tried to move his elbow back. He'd be crazy to lean into 94 mph fastball with no elbow gaurd.

There might be some field level mics he can list to as well? Not sure, just an idea. I’m always impressed by it too tho haha

"the sanctity of the game.". Like Damn Jom go off!!!

Even lip reads the ump when his back is turned. Impressive.

An actual lip reader did a take on one of these clips and Jimmy made a lot of mistakes. When it’s done right there no sliding out of sync and no doubt what’s being said. There’s a whole “Bad Lip Reading” channel that makes outlandish lip reads that look as convincing as some of his. He definitely gets the gist though, but this looked off in a few places. I wish they’d hire a pro who can do it better to help him be even more accurate.

Seems that you impress awful easy. How do you know he's right? Is it because he tells you it's right? Setting the bar pretty low, eh?

Seems like you would know all about childhood truma.

the full grown man he’s saying “No” to has been working in baseball since before he was born lol.

Yeah, can't blame him for doing it because it definitely didn't look like it hit Realmuto. Can't hate on Realmuto for pulling this off either though lol, that's on the umps for not getting it right in the first place.

The ump was not going to award first base if the batter didn't say anything. Even if I'm as generous to the ump as possible and say that the replay was inconclusive, he absolutely changed his call on the batter selling it and that's not supposed to happen. Also, if the batter can outright get the call, why can't Bud's request for an umpire conference be honored?

@@kenconnelly773 because it’s up to the ump and he used his challenge already. The umps don’t have to do anything if they don’t want to at that point. Now a good ump would let have changed his call but called a conference right away so no one can say they were influenced by anyone else, but as soon as he made the call he painted himself into a corner, and there was no way for him to ask for a review with out a protest from the Phillies.

And it even wasn't Angel Hernandez this time.

Yeah honestly tough spot to navigate, I think if Bud worded it more delicately he would've gotten the review

He didnt see it. There is no sympathy for that lmfao. Bud wanted a review because the Ump said he didnt know .

@@C3Rl3 manager tells you to review it with no challenges (even if he's right), you don't see how that's a tough spot?

@@fbrbtx no, because the point is to get it right. The whole challenge thing is stupid anyways. Just get a sky judge.

I agree, it was a lose lose he made a decision and had to take consequences, however how would the conversation have gone if he said yeah it hit me, and ump goes no it didnt

Lol yeah made my neck hurt😂😂😂

If that’s inconclusive there’s no such thing as conclusive overturn of a HBP

@@theknightswhosay Do you really think the video shows that he was CLEARLY not hit by the pitch? I dont think you can tell either way from the shots we saw.

@@TheMitmiter I do yes. If The umpire doesn’t even claim he saw it, and no frame of the video even looks debatable, I think that should be enough. Not “there could be some frame if we had 1000 frames/second that backs up the umpire.” That’s an absurd standard.

@@theknightswhosay It is debatable though. If it didnt hit him it was VERY close. The batters reaction to the pitch really seems legit.

I gotta agree with thenights, looks pretty conclusive to me in the first replay. You can clearly see the dirt gap between the arm and baseball the entire time. And even if it grazes him surely it would deflect it some, that ball never moved. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

That's true, this is a big part of the game

Blew his challenge earlier. If every manager can just skirt the rules by then having the Umps challenge for them, why have rules in the first place?

@@Jadiaz-ev9hm don't think you realize this is a big part of the game

​@@ryanc3201 guess the manager should have anticipated that instead of blowing his challenge, and getting it wrong, earlier in the game. Maybe we should make MLB managers play RPGs so they learn the value of collecting consumables but never using them until late game 😂

The first rule of baseball, the ump is infallible.

He was the definition of a crafty left hander as his playing career came to a close.

.500 pitcher his whole life

What was the challenge?

​@@bones343 Safe/Out call at 1st. It was one of those... we're only 80% sure we should overturn this, which isn't conclusive enough, so the call stands.

there is a clear gap where the ground can be seen between his arm and the ball. It did not hit him but he knew it was close enough to get the call. He used the Umps ego to his advantage and it won his team the game.

Put yourself in the box. 90+ that close to your body, definitely could feel like it grazed you. I don't think JT was being sneaky, I think he really thought it grazed him

It is hard to tell, but Realmuto's reaction tells it all. There is nobody in the world that is a good enough actor that they would react THAT instantly by sheer fakery. He winced RIGHT as the ball passed by his elbow. Unless he was PREPARED to fake it before ht pitch, it just wouldn't have been that quick. That was the face of someone that got hit...luckily not that hard, but you make a face just out of surprise. Think of what most people do when they band their shoulder going around a corner, or they open a door into their leg. Not hard. But they still say "Ow" or something like that. That is basically the face Realmuto made.

​@@MrWhateverfits no, you can not tell from the video.

@@MrWhateverfits Yay. Winning the game by lying. Way to go.

I saw that as well. His forearm muscle rippled back.

It looks to me that it barely got him just a grass not enough to hurt but enough to have felt something

@@jimyeats back and to the left

Agreed, I think it did hit him.

Gabe Kapler has a pretty good one.

And working OT...BASEBALL BABY! LETS GO!

He and the crew already have like five. Just not on shit network tv. This is fine, better audience.

You'd know because I'd be on the ground spinning like Curly from the Three Stooges.

you could see him wince as soon as the ball went by. maybe he’s just tough

​@@nate_storm Yeah. These aren't soccer players.

Should have spent more time studying the book of unwritten rules 😮

Playground rules would be an improvement over these union hacks. I am a teamster and it takes a lot to fire one of us but repeated poor job performance and dereliction are grounds for termination. Just sayin...Rob and the goon squad. Faster play and horrible umping don't jibe.

Ump-catcher? Cumpire? 😂

@@syf13 That's actually a genre of Twilight fanfic.

Ikr? I hate he missed the call went with what the lying batter said and ejected the manager for pointing out his fk up.😑

Yeah I mean if he's going to let the batter decide what the outcome of the pitch was, he should let the manager decide when he asks for a replay XD

Interesting point

Just because it’s rare doesn’t make it more likely that he’s telling the truth lol there are plenty of examples in all sports where a player is adamant about something happening and it turns out they are wrong. So how do you solve this predicament, oh idk, maybe look at it lmao

I get what you're saying. But athletes have been known to bend the rules since the beginning of sports. How many times do batters lean in and say they didn't move? Too many. I can't remember who they were playing, but in STL a few weeks back a batter said he was hit. Watch the replay and the ball MAYBE hit the lace on his shin guard that was 3" long. If umps start listening to players for this, you have to listen when they say they beat out a ball, made a catch instead of trapped it, etc. Players are always gaming the system.

just watch his expression change as he supposedly gets hit. I'm pretty sure he got hit too.

The main problem is the ump refused to call for a replay when it was obvious he missed it. It probably did skim his arm a little.

Nah, when a ball is that close you feel it whether if hits you or not, and you're going to react to it. While there is SOME dispute, it looks pretty clear that it didn't hit him to me. If it's so close nobody can even tell, man up and get back in the batters box.

It missed him and made no noise, so he’s been waiting for the opportunity. I say it was planned.

Every player has it in the back of their mind to pretend to be hit if its close. Meek Ump kicked the bucket on this one.

probably felt the wind pass over, but his arm didn't even move