Tag Archives: Umpire

He may not be on our list of the 10 worst umpires in Major League Baseball, but Bruce Dreckman made a call on Saturday that could put him in the running for next yera. It was as bad as it gets, and easily the worst call of the 2024 MLB …

Jelena Ostapenko always wears her heart on her sleeve when she plays, ensuring there is never a dull moment. Locked in a tense third set battle at 4-4, Ostapenko lost her cool with Norwegian chair umpire Julie Kjendlie, claiming she incorrectly awarded her opponent Victoria Azarenka a point. With the …

The Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox faced each other Tuesday night as both teams are in the thick of the American League playoff chase. Both squads needed wins, so they didn’t have time for an umpire to be screwing up behind the plate. Unfortunately, that’s just what Larry …

We’ve been over this before, but C.B. Bucknor is among the worst umpires working in Major League Baseball. In fact, we had him No. 2 in our ranking of the worst MLB umps. On Saturday, he verified our ranking and made a mockery of the game. Bucknor was working behind …

Weird stuff tends to happen in the lower levels of professional baseball, and this past Sunday was no different. During a contest between the Tri-City ValleyCats and the New York Boulders yesterday, an umpire got ejected in the first inning. You read that correctly, the ump got tossed. How would …

Angel Hernandez missed most of the 2023 MLB season due to a medical issue, but he’s back now and making up for lost time. On Sunday night he was behind the plate as the New York Yankees faced the Houston Astros and, my word, was he terrible. It’s just more …

Last night the Minnesota Twins beat the Oakland Athletics but were forced to suffer through some bad umpiring in the process. Home plate ump Nic Lentz had a tough night, highlighted by this horrible called strike three against Carlos Correa in a full count that would have otherwise loaded the …

The Seattle Mariners beat the Washington Nationals 8-4 Monday night and they got a big assist from home plate umpire Mark Carlson. He rung up Jeimer Candelario looking to end the game on a pitch so far outside it qualifies as one of the worst strike calls of the 2023 …

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros, 8-7, on Saturday night. It was a tie ballgame in the 7th when second base umpire Junior Valentine called Houston reliever Ryan Stanek for a balk. The call came with two outs on a 3-2 count with runners on second and third. …

The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Washington Nationals, 5-3, on Thursday afternoon in front of only 13,000 fans at Nationals Park. With such a small crowd, home plate umpire Doug Eddings was able to hear the Diamondbacks’ dugout clearly when they started complaining in the bottom of the first inning. And …