Tag: Umpires

Late Night Loss

Okay, so here’s what happened, Dustin Pedroia flies out to Ichiro with Jacoby Ellsbury on third base. Ichiro rifles the ball back to the infield and Josh Bard tags Ellsbury out while Ellsbury practically wipes him out in the process.…

Droppings

A bunch of randomness… ~ The Jerry Meals call that ended the Pirates/Braves game last night was just really God-awful.  Meals admitting he blew the call does nothing to help the Pirates and I’m getting to the point where I…

Why can’t we be friends?

I’m not particularly proud of this, but last night when home plate umpire Tom Hallion bent over and didn’t upright himself until they walked him off the field, I had two thoughts.  The first was, “Man, I hope he’s all…

Well that wasn’t much fun

All I’ll say is it was a frustrating game and Wake deserved better (once again).  Two outings in a row the man has pitched balls out (even in his state of being unhappy with his situation) and he has no…