We JUST posted about an MLB umpire calling a near-perfect game, and now we’ve got the opposite here.
This call came from home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez on breakout Baltimore Orioles star Cedric Mullins, and … it’s not great.
It’s on a Nick Pivetta breaking ball that comes in pretty high, maybe around Mullins’ shoulder, and the box that shows what’s a strike or not clearly shows it’s high.
But: Strike three! And Mullins wasn’t happy about it.
So let’s break it all down, from the call to the photos that show just how high this pitch was out of the strike zone: