I will be the first to admit that Major League umpires have a difficult job, especially when it comes to working behind the plate. They have to call balls and strikes on pitches that are coming in faster and with more movement than ever before.
It isn’t easy.
And that’s exactly why Major League Baseball needs to stop leaving the strike zone up to humans who are clearly not up for the challenge. The mistakes keep happening, and they’re seemingly worse by the game.
During Sunday’s game between the Yankees and Astros — which also had some cheating-themed trolling — home plate umpire John Bacon called a ball on middle-middle breaking ball that should have ended the sixth inning.