Miguel Rojas was not a fan of this call in the final inning of Sunday’s Miami Marlins game.
With the Marlins down 4-0 to the Philadelphia Phillies in the ninth, Bryan De La Cruz was up to bat in a big spot with two men on and two outs. Unfortunately, De La Cruz went down in the count early with a 0-1 pitch from Jose Alvarado that was quite off the mark.
While De La Cruz laughed the missed call off, Marlins fans were irate at the fastball that missed down and out of the strike zone by a considerable margin. Not only that, Rojas himself spent considerable time jawing at umpire Ron Kulpa from the dugout in the pitch’s aftermath.