Getting called up to the majors doesn’t always go perfectly. That much is true for both players and umpires.
Lew Williams was called up from Triple A recently and found himself making national headlines for all the wrong reasons Tuesday while he was working the first game of a doubleheader between the Phillies and Nationals. Williams had three of his calls at first base overturned during the NL East rivalry tilt and two of them came on back-to-back pitches.
The first mistake came in the second inning when Washington’s Ildemaro Vargas was called out at first on a bad throw by Philadelphia starter Zack Wheeler. Replay showed Bryce Harper’s foot was off the bag and Vargas was ruled safe. But things got uglier from there.
