2:50-6:46 MIL vs. STL/NYY vs. SEA 10:21-11:13 LAA vs. NYY 12:02-13:51 MIA vs. TOR 15:15-17:06 KC vs. MIN 22:37-24:02 PHI vs. PIT 25:48-28:36 SEA vs. SF 29:22-31:22 BOS vs. ATL 34:17-39:38 BAL vs. TOR/BOS vs. KC 41:19-43:40 BOS vs. BAL/SD vs. SF 46:41-49:06 NYY vs. HOU/BOS vs. TB
A player or coach gets fined and suspended if they so much as brush past an ump but the umps can push and grab players all they want. I'll completely skip the part where umps antagonize these confrontations all the time and are NEVER held accountable.... Joe West being the worst offender.
Not really. Umpires are held accountable in the form of being observed/assessed every match/game they work. If they get low enough marks, they become ineligible until they improve. Considering the naturally... contentious position of being an umpire, they don't need fines against them, considering they make much less than any player.
Yevgeny Dodzin because obviously the players and coaches have a different opinion than the fans. I’ve heard interviews with a lot of players and coaches that despite bad calls every so often, Joe is a good umpire.
Have you seen the primary reason they push back a player or coach. 9 times out of 10 it’s because they are charging mad, trying to get at an umpire or another player and it’s a safety issue. Officials in any sport are there to make sure that players/coaches stay safe. This goes double for if they are getting close to there fellow official. Your not going to continue to scream and fling your arms in close proximity to my crew member nor hold up the game longer. I’m going to come in and nudge you back and get you away from him and get the game rolling again. You’ve had your say we get your heated but it’s time to go. We aren’t going to get fined or suspended for protecting our guys and for getting the game to move along. We (I’m a football referee) are the authority on the field, that’s why you don’t get to put your hands on us in any wrong way. I mean, it’s not saying you can’t put your hands on us period, your more than welcome to come put an arm around us to make sure we can hear a change or observation if it’s too loud to hear face to face, you just can’t come up and shove us or poke us. Or bump in argument in the case of MLB.
@@KyleBerthoud2 Watching it again, you're right. Coulda sworn I saw Jose say something, but then again, let's not forget what umpire we're talking about here lol
Yeah, there are some bad calls on here. But of all the announcers in baseball, Hawk Harrelson doesn’t know what he’s talking about...whether the batter stepped in front of the catcher on accident or otherwise, if he interfered with the throw of the catcher, the runner’s gonna be called out. That’s just the letter of the law...
It's not that they don't know what they're talking about, it's that they're prone to human emotion just like we are. Guys like Hawk Harrelson love the game passionately with every fiber of their being. He lived and died with each White Sox win and loss.
Chris Craven I’d disagree. As Bautista turns around, we see him make some arm flip, almost a dismissal of the call. The announcers say he doesn’t say anything, but you can’t see through the catchers head that he truly didn’t say anything. We need another angle to be able to say for sure that he didn’t mouth off something once he turned around to head to the dugout. Until that happens (4 years later now I doubt it will) I think Hernández got this right. Can’t argue balls and strikes, that’s a quick tossing any way around it if the umpire chooses. Some, like Joe West in this particular video with Holliday, will give you a chance to just walk away, but you aren’t going to get that treatment with every umpire.
I'm not very surprised when umpires miss ballsthat are low. Depending on their position behind the catcher, they lose sight of the ball maybe 4 or 5 feet before it hits the catcher's mitt. The best position for the umpire to call balls and strikes is behind the pitcher. Of course that will never happen.
Wow. No, they lose sight of the pitch mere inches from hitting the catchers mitt. And it's not where it hits the mitt, it's where it passes over the plate or strike zone that's called.
