Tag: bad calls

A livid Trey Mancini got ejected after umpire Rob Drake’s nonsensical out call at first base

An inexcusable call.

For a longtime Major League Baseball umpire, Rob Drake has a proven track record of poor judgement (which doesn’t always take place on the field). But on Thursday, we saw once again just how bad Drake can be when it comes to over-officiating the most basic aspects of baseball.

During the fourth inning of the Orioles’ game against the Oakland Athletics, designated hitter Trey Mancini reached first safely on a throwing error from Nick Allen. As the ball skipped away, Mancini turned to see where the ball went, saw that it hardly rolled away and began making a leisurely jog to first base.

Just to be sure, internet icon Sean Murphy tagged Mancini. But to the dismay of everyone, Drake called Mancini out.

Even the Yankees broadcast couldn’t believe it when an atrocious missed call went against the A’s

How does that happen?!

The Oakland Athletics managed to snap the Yankees’ 13-game winning streak on Saturday, but third base umpire Will Little didn’t make matters easy for either team.

Little put together his best Angel Hernandez impression, which isn’t something any umpire should want.

Little’s rough day started when he called a balk on the Yankees’ Nestor Cortes Jr. — a call that usually gets made by the first base umpire when a lefty is on the mound. Little was the only umpire to see a balk, and, well, it wasn’t a balk.

It got even weirder in the third inning when Starling Marte was called safe on a steal attempt. It looked like Rougned Odor got the tag down first, but Little just didn’t see it. That same inning, Little called Marte out after he drifted too far off the bag on a hard liner into the shift.

The problem: Odor was clearly off the bag. Like, it wasn’t even close. You know it was a bad call when the Yankees broadcast reacted in disbelief.

The call went to MLB’s replay system — which remains broken — and the ruling on the field was upheld. Again, Odor was clearly off the bag. It was obvious on replay.

The whole sequence would lead to A’s manager Bob Melvin getting ejected, and you honestly can’t blame Melvin for being upset there. If umpires are missing easy calls that proceed to get upheld in replay, then what are teams supposed to do?

It was a terrible day all around for that crew, and there’s no reason to expect anything do be done about it. That’s just how MLB operates.

Seahawks (and Saints) fans were furious over blatant missed pass interference against 49ers

The Seahawks should have had first and goal on the 1-yard line, but the refs missed a blatant pass interference call against the 49ers.

The Seahawks were trailing the 49ers by five points on Sunday night, and driving with less than two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. With the ball at the SF 12-yard line and 55 seconds remaining in the game, Russell Wilson fired a throw to tight end Jacob Hollister in the end zone.

Hollister was unable to even make an attempt to catch the ball, however, because 49ers linebacker Fred Warner mugged him in the end zone. Everyone waited for the flag to be thrown at Warner’s feet for pass interference, but nothing happened. No flag was thrown.

As there were fewer than two minutes remaining in the game, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was not allowed to challenge the call. HOWEVER, the league does have rules in place now where the league office can choose to review the play if they feel blatant PI occurred.

That … didn’t happen. For some reason. Seattle even called timeout after the play to give the league office time to review the decision, and … they didn’t. Nothing happened. Or they did quickly and decided not to do anything.

The call had massive repercussions. The Seahawks (thanks in part to some boneheaded coaching from Carroll) would go on to lose the game by five points.

That loss gave the 49ers the No. 1 seed in the NFC, and knocked the Saints out of a first-round bye in the process.

So now you had furious Seahawks fans, AND furious Saints fans who felt that had been cheated by another terrible, missed pass interference call.

As to how bad the call was? Well, yeah, it was pretty bad.

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