Tag: Angel Hernandez

Mets announcers rightfully crushed Angel Hernandez for yet another awful strike call

Not again.

Another day, another brutal call from umpire Angel Hernandez.

It’s been a rough year for him, with announcers and players ripping him for questionable calls, and on Wednesday night, that continued.

Let’s give him some credit before we dive into the not-so-good stuff: he did nail it on calling New York Mets shortstop Javier Baez safe on an amazing swim-move slide at home.

But in the bottom of the ninth and the Miami Marlins trailing the Mets 5-3, he called a low and outside pitch strike three on Brian Anderson, who was not happy.

“It’s not an official game until Angel plays a big part in it,” remarked SNY analyst Ron Darling.

Not good!

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MLB fans pile on umpire Angel Hernandez again for some awful calls

Yep, again.

It feels like we could write the same text to Angel Hernandez stories over and over: every time the umpire is behind the plate for an MLB game, fans pile on him for bad calls, whether it’s decisions that lead to lost no-hit bids, angry pitchers or bewildered announcers.

It happened again while he was behind the dish for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants, with fans focusing on a couple of specific calls and then watched as he gave Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer an inspection on his pitching hand.

Let’s break it all down after his performance on Monday:

The Astros lost their no-hit bid immediately after Angel Hernandez’s brutal missed call

Robot umps now.

The Houston Astros had a legitimate shot on Monday at their first no-hitter since Justin Verlander’s gem in 2019. The only problem was that Angel Hernandez was behind the plate this time.

With a combined no-hitter alive in the eighth inning with one out and a runner on first, Astros reliever Brandon Bielak was way ahead on the Orioles’ Maikel Franco with an 0-2 count.

Bielak sure looked like he froze Franco with an 84 mph breaking ball that caught A LOT of the plate. It was well in the broadcast’s strike-zone box. But Hernandez, who is objectively awful at his job, ruled that the pitch was a ball.

You be the judge:

The sure looked like a would-be strikeout.

Well, the missed call would prove costly as Franco broke up the no-hit bid with a home run on the very next pitch.

Just brutal.

And, yeah, the Astros would go on to win, 10-2, so it wasn’t like the missed call robbed them of a win. But Bielak deserved the strikeout there, and the no-hit bid should have kept going.

No umpire makes a better case for robot umps than Hernandez. That much is clear.

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Royals’ Brady Singer goes off on umpire Angel Hernandez after a roller-coaster inning of weird calls

Here we go again.

Normally, when we post about umpire Angel Hernandez, it’s because he screwed up a call or two during an MLB game and fans are roasting him on Twitter.

In this case, I’m going to say that I don’t think this is all on Hernandez. But it’s sort of like a running back who’s known to fumble — managers and players are already primed to argue and be angry because Hernandez is involved.

Here, we have a whole inning full of calls. It started with a pitch in Wednesday’s Cleveland 5-4 win over the Kansas City Royals that Hernandez said hit Jose Ramirez. Upon a challenge from the Royals, it was somehow upheld even though the pitch looked like it didn’t hit him.

Then, with two runners on, Royals pitcher Brady Singer tried to pick off Ramirez … but Hernandez called him for a balk. Everyone went off, Royals pitching coach Cal Eldred and manager Mike Matheny got tossed … and when the inning was over, Singer was furious at Hernandez and also was ejected.

Watch the whole sequence here:

 

Yikes. Again, even if Hernandez wasn’t completely at fault — although you may not agree it was a balk — it’s still not great!!

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Umpire Angel Hernandez admits he ‘basically guessed’ on a bizarre call after losing ball in lights

Not great!

This isn’t going to help with the way MLB fans call out umpire Angel Hernandez every time he’s behind the plate for a game.

The thing in this situation was: Hernandez wasn’t behind the plate on Tuesday night for what turned into another weird call.

Let’s break it down: Hernandez was at first base when Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez hit a ball to right field that was near the wall.  Cleveland outfielder Harold Ramirez couldn’t make the catch, and Josh Naylor grabbed the ball on a hop and threw into second base.

But the Royals’ Andrew Benintendi — on second base was confused when Hernandez signaled it was an out. Caught between second and third as he tried to go back and tag up, he was tagged out.

But then Hernandez and the umpiring crew talked it over, changed the call … and gave Benintendi third base.

Here’s what Hernandez said to a pool reporter, via Cleveland.com:

“I was trying to read the players to see what they did with the ball, and I had to come out with the call,” Hernandez said. “I basically guessed on the wrong call.”

Oh boy. It’s not a good look when an umpire says he “basically guessed.” Here’s more from Hernandez, via KansasCity.com:

“Our goal was to get the play right, and that’s exactly what we did,” Hernandez told a pool reporter after the game. “We talk about this. Replay is an extension of what we do out there. As you saw, I got basically blinded by the outfield scoreboard. The pixels on the lights were as clear as white can be. I was trying to make out what happened out there.

“The harder I looked, the less I could see. So I was trying to read the players to see what they did with the ball. And I had to come out with the call. I basically guessed on the wrong call. So as soon as I turned around, (home plate umpire) Edwin (Moscoso) started walking towards me. We got the crew together. And we fixed the problem.”

It’s good they at least turned over the call, but what a mess!

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MLB fans roasted umpire Angel Hernandez yet again for some awful calls

Not good!

We’ve been over this, like, a thousand times.

Every time Angel Hernandez is the home plate umpire for a Major League Baseball game, he gets roasted on Twitter — or announcers or managers — by fans for awful calls.

Well guess what happened Tuesday night? He was behind the plate for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ eventual loss to the Cincinnati Reds, so everyone took to Twitter to roast his calls. And it appeared Dodgers infielder Justin Turner was NOT pleased with a third strike that also appeared to be off the plate (see below):

There also was this miss with a strike that appeared to be outside to Mookie Betts:

Yikes.

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MLB Umpire Angel Hernandez blew so many calls in the Astros-Angels game

This is so bad.

Look, being an umpire is hard. Baseballs move fast, the strike zone changes from player to player, pitch variations are hard to discern sometimes.

So it’s easy to miss a call here and there. Especially in Major League Baseball, where the best of the best players are going at it every night at the highest level.

But at a certain point, there’s an expectation for an umpire to get things right. They’re also supposed to be the best in the world at what they do in calling these games.

MLB Umpire Angel Hernandez seems to be missing that mark right now — and by a lot.

Hernandez got called out after Tuesday night’s Astros vs. Angels game because he blew so many calls. A video posted to Twitter by Apollo Media showed just how bad he was.

That’s just the eye test, though. But there’s also actual data to back it up and it turns out he was really that bad.

According to Umpire Auditor, Hernandez missed 24 calls in total with a correct call percentage on just 83.2% of them.

They graded his overall accuracy at 86%. The average is 94%.

That’s…not good. Fans were fed up.

And you can’t really blame them here. This is just an awful officiating job, hands down. It’s wild to see a game called this badly.

Those robot umps are gonna be here before we know it.

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Cardinals announcer roasts Angel Hernandez over questionable call in spring training opener

Welcome back, baseball.

Well, we didn’t have to wait long at all for people to complain about Angel Hernandez in 2021.

Spring training baseball made its return on Sunday with Grapefruit League games in Florida and Cactus League games in Arizona. And as one should expect with the first spring training game of the year, everyone was working to get their rhythm back — that included the umpires.

But in Hernandez’s case — largely regarded as the worst MLB umpire — he was looking like his regular self. At least that was what Cardinals play-by-play announcer Dan McLaughlin pointed out in the first inning as Hernandez ruled a borderline pitch a ball.

“Angel Hernandez is in the midseason form,” McLaughlin joked.

And while I’m usually all for criticizing Angel Hernandez (because he’s awful at his job), it did appear that Hernandez accurately ruled the 1-1 pitch a ball despite an excellent frame attempt by Yadier Molina.

This missed call did happen, though.

Midseason form, indeed!

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MLB fans once again roasted Angel Hernandez for his strike zone

Here we go again.

It feels like every time umpire Angel Hernandez is behind the plate calling balls and strikes, he’s going to get called out on Twitter for being way off.

That happened once again on Tuesday night with him calling the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians contest. And wouldn’t you know it? He was called out by MLB fans on Twitter, as well as a player and a manager in the actual game.

White Sox bench boss Rick Renteria and star shortstop Tim Anderson were both ejected arguing with the ump after a called third strike on Luis Robert.

Here’s a compilation of some missed calls (although I see a couple aided by good framing):

Hernandez got roasted everywhere:

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MLB fans could not believe Angel Hernandez actually called this pitch a strike

So bad.

At this point, it’s almost astonishing that Angel Hernandez is still a big-league umpire. Whenever Hernandez is working behind the plate, both teams know to expect a frustrating night.

And, well, Monday’s game between the Twins and White Sox was no exception. But there was one pitch, in particular, that captured the attention of MLB fans and had Hernandez trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons.

With Jose Abreu facing Jorge Alcala in the eighth inning, Hernandez watched as an 87 mph breaking ball crossed nowhere near the plate and still called it a strike.

Like, this wasn’t even close.

According to Umpire Auditor, the pitch was 3.35 inches off the plate. It was a strike call that had fans in disbelief.

It’s really time for MLB to move on from Hernandez. This can’t continue.

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