Tag: John Tumpane

Pirates broadcasters rightfully lose their minds over some horrible missed calls by an umpire

The umpire missed these calls badly.

Apologies to the Pittsburgh Pirates, because these calls were quite bad.

In the New York Mets 5-2 win over the team on Saturday, there were a whole bunch of bad calls by home plate umpire John Tumpane. And thanks to Rob Friedman (AKA @pitchingninja), you can see a montage of them.

What you can also hear is the Pirates booth losing its mind over those horrible calls, and it’s the perfect soundtrack. Heck, even the Mets booth has questions about those calls, proving that it’s not just the home team that feels like Tumpane was very wrong.

Check out those moments:

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Brewers manager Craig Counsell getting ejected came with a perfect broadcast play-by-play

If your team’s manager is going to be ejected, you might as well get a laugh out of it.

While the Cincinnati Reds had a wonderful Saturday at the ballpark, the Milwaukee Brewers saw their manager get ejected for seemingly decrying a call from umpire John Tumpane.

During the top of the ninth inning, Brewers pitcher Abner Uribe got called for a balk by Tumpane, the second balk called during the game at that point.

Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell seemingly said something about Tumpane’s call that the umpire didn’t like, and he ejected Counsell for the rest of the game.

Counsell looked a bit bewildered by the ejection and walked up to Tumpane to discuss the decision, and the FOX Sports 1 broadcast crew gave some very humorous and insightful narration to the two’s interaction.

Some possible NSFW language to follow. 

Baseball fans have a historic distaste for umpires, and there’s undoubtedly plenty of Brewers fans at home who had no idea why this ejection happened in the first place.

At the least, we got a great breakdown of what was possibly going on between Counsell and Tumpane (with a few good zingers tucked in for good measure).