Monday, May 13, 2013

Bad Umpire

On May 8th in the Cleveland-Oakland game, the umpires had a chance to make good a tough call they missed the first time. Manager Bob Melvin asked crew chief Angel Hernandez to review the call on a replay. Even with video replay, Hernandez failed the test.

Check out this link on the MLB site. http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26957341

We rate bad calls here using the Blind Mice scale. This one is so bad it's off the scale and earns Angel Hernandez the highly coveted, rarely awarded, muchly sought after Mr MaGoo award. Congratulations, Angel.



Stick with the video to hear the announcers' talking about Hernandez making an equally bad call two nights earlier. He and his crew would blow a few calls in the Nationals-Cubs over the weekend, too.