MLB Ump Phil Cuzzi Got Crushed by Fans Yet Again for Being Really Bad at His Job

There are lots of umpires in Major League Baseball that will go through their careers without ever being remembered by fans. That’s a good thing, too, because if you’re good at your job as an ump, you will remain nameless and just be someone who keeps the game moving along.

That can’t be said for Phil Cuzzi. Many fans are learning his name lately and it’s not because he’s good at his job. It’s actually quite the opposite.

Cuzzi, if you’re not familiar with his work, is the ump who threw out Mets pitcher Max Scherzer earlier this season in a baffling move. He’s also the guy who had fans upset with his dramatic balk call last week.

On Monday night, he was working behind the plate for the Twins-Dodgers game in Los Angeles and he absolutely stole an at-bat from Minnesota in the top of the 10th inning with two just awful strike calls.

Check this out:

Dodgers announcers on the same sequence:

"Boy oh boy, Phil Cuzzi just made being a Major League hitter way harder than it already is."

"Both sides of the plate were an extra three inches. We shall take it. I mean, that's not even close."

"That's impossible for a hitter" pic.twitter.com/aL0oCQRZpG
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 16, 2023

That is some embarrassing stuff. Even the Dodgers’ announcers agreed.

MLB fans lit him up:

When the opposing teams announcers know how bad it is……. Cuzzi is the worst! https://t.co/SwcDdLEpCI
— Chris Kosiak (@C_K_42) May 16, 2023

Robot umpires now.

Seriously. We have the technology to make these bozos obsolete. Why are we still putting up with this nonsense. https://t.co/xKcqu3P1Rq
— Tim Johnson (@timkjohnson) May 16, 2023

@mlb this is atrocious. Phil Cuzzi should not be umpiring games and there is technology for an electronic strike zone. Disaster https://t.co/4zmg4wiT4Z
— STOP ADDING VOID YEARS (@joe_draft) May 16, 2023

Just give us the robot umpires already. Nobody in the history of baseball has ever paid money to go watch an umpire. https://t.co/8Dvptmd8Uk
— 🏎️⚾️ (@A1exTimmons) May 16, 2023