This year’s Major League Baseball season will be remembered for the home run chases by Albert Pujols and Aaron Judge but it will also be remembered for all of the awful calls umps have made all year long.
That continued Monday night in Baltimore where we might have seen the worst called strike of the season, which, again, is saying a lot because the umps have been largely terrible this year.
Baltimore’s Dean Kremer threw what looked to be an obvious ball to Toronto’s Cavan Biggio but home plate ump Doug Eddings didn’t think so because he called this obvious ball a strike:
— Welcome to the Ump Show (@umpjob) October 4, 2022
I mean, come on Doug! This shouldn’t come as a surprise, though, because Doug Eddings has proven before to be really bad at his job. Hopefully he’s watching the playoffs on TV like the rest of us.
MLB fans ripped him for it.
Robo ump time. https://t.co/2JD1s6djXQ
— Jesse (@JesusM2308) October 4, 2022
What? https://t.co/RahyBl1JB9
— Chris Vollick (@Canadian88) October 4, 2022
How is this a strike?! 🤣 https://t.co/7wLoN682Yn
— Patrick Mahan (@patrickmahan) October 4, 2022
Yikes. https://t.co/Y46RjcmyJ8
— St-Patrick33 (@st_patrick33) October 4, 2022
What is this ump seeing? https://t.co/DJcp65qCjE
— Byron (@Byron_D11) October 4, 2022
The hotel room service menu is limited after 11. https://t.co/SO7BA8hTjk
— 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙽𝙾𝚁𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙱𝚄𝙻𝙻 (@TheSnortingBull) October 4, 2022
this is BAD https://t.co/5y4cfvxD9G
— Sa🅿️ø 🐸🇵🇷🗿 (@_Sap0) October 4, 2022
Holy moly. https://t.co/9hFDyYSbZo
— Traded Danny. (@DidEspiGetAHit) October 4, 2022
This has to be one of the worst https://t.co/E6Q29DWDDJ
— KTM (@Mathiason77) October 4, 2022
Egregious. https://t.co/iukcg9wN1V
— The Ghost of Baseball Past (@NorthStar717) October 4, 2022