For as bad as MLB umpiring has been this season, these past few days of college baseball regionals almost make you appreciate what big-league umpires do out there. It’s been that bad.
On Monday, home plate umpire Perry Costello actually put his hands on East Carolina’s Bryson Worrell to stop him from admiring a huge home run. It was beyond bizarre to see. For one, an umpire should never put his hands on a player — just as a player can’t put his hands on an umpire. On top of that, it’s an umpires job to enforce actual rules — not baseball’s archaic unwritten rules.
Somehow, Costello wasn’t the only fun-hating umpire in the college baseball ranks because umpire Jeff Head almost did the same thing in Maryland’s game against UConn.
