If it seems like there’s a lot of bad calls being made by umpires these days in Major League Baseball, it’s because it’s true—some of the guys in blue are just really bad at their jobs.
The latest example of this came in Saturday’s Rays-Guardians game in Cleveland when C.B. Bucknor rang up Bo Naylor on a pitch that did actually find the strike zone.
So what was the problem with this strikeout call? It was only strike two on Naylor, who quickly pointed that out to Bucknor. Thankfully, he was able to correct his mistake but this was not a good look: