The Texas Rangers suffered a brutal loss to the White Sox on Tuesday night after a mind-boggling overturned call led to a go-ahead run for Chicago in the bottom of the eighth. That overturned call also led to lots of fans rightfully ripping Major League Baseball because it made no sense at all.
The Rangers appeared to get the third out of the eighth inning after catcher Jonah Heim tagged Elvis Andrus at the plate. The play, however, went to review where MLB officials ruled that Heim had blocked the plate and therefore Andrus was ruled safe and the run scored.
The reversal was so bad that even the White Sox TV crew couldn’t believe it. Check this out:
The White Sox take the lead after it's ruled -- after review -- that Rangers catcher Jonah Heim didn't give Elvis Andrus a lane to home plate. Rangers manager Bruce Bochy was ejected.
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) June 21, 2023
Even the NBC Sports Chicago crew -- Jason Benetti & Steve Stone -- couldn't believe the ruling. pic.twitter.com/eRAoqFqoZU
How was this blocking the plate?
outfield view of jonah heim's plate-blocking violation 👀 pic.twitter.com/sAlfND2Ji0
— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) June 21, 2023
Rangers manager Bruce Bochy, who was ejected for arguing with the umps after the ruling, had this to say after the game:
"For that call to be made, I'm dumbfounded. It's absolutely one of the worst calls I've ever seen and it was done by replay. I just don't get it. I don't care how many times they'll try to explain it. You can't do that in that situation. It's a shame. It's embarrassing, really."
Fans were also irate:
This has been an amazing baseball season.
— Adam Schein (@AdamSchein) June 21, 2023
Umpiring and replay — REPLAY — worse than ever. I begged MLB not to implement replay. It’s a failure. https://t.co/6NS6Ef8OT2
sometimes something happens in baseball and you’re like wow i guess i don’t understand anything about this sport https://t.co/EjokJrdpOp
— tryler (@tylerlauletta) June 21, 2023
Baseball makes no sense anymore. https://t.co/8VLq22qB8p
— Josh Gross (@yay_yee) June 21, 2023
Why should young ball players ever dream of playing catcher?
— JT The Brick (@JTTheBrick) June 21, 2023
This is so pathetic.
We are becoming such a "soft" sports society! https://t.co/Q4kTV7IjPZ
This is horrible. Never been a fan of this rule but how in the world can you say he was blocking the plate? Not sure what more Heim is supposed to do here. Brutal. https://t.co/z3KgXvXB6C
— Kevin McAlpin (@KevinMcAlpin) June 21, 2023
Someone in the MLB replay room screwed up, royally... https://t.co/2Fr70gOGDT
— Brien Rea (@BrienRea) June 21, 2023
Even the White Sox announcers are absolutely confused on this and say this was a bad call.
— Happy Bevo 🤘🏼 (@angrybevo21) June 21, 2023
JFC was Angel Hernandez and Joe West making the calls in NY? That’s the ONLY way this makes any sense. #StraightUpTX https://t.co/nC6pKNb1n2
