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Andy Nesbitt

We have a new nominee for the worst missed call by a MLB home plate ump

It’s been a rough year for the boys in blue working Major League Baseball games this season. Way too many of MLB’s umps have had embarrassing moments that have led to fans begging commissioner Rob Manfred to finally bring in robot umps and put an end to all of this madness.

If you needed any more convincing that robot umps should be the way then let me show you a pitch from the ninth inning of last night’s Mariners-Angels game that was basically right down the middle but called a ball.

Home plate ump Jeff Nelson just sat there and didn’t move his arm to call a strike. Instead, this was a ball:

Not great!

That was just as bad as this one from June:

Twitter had reactions:

 

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