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Bad Umpires? Game 2

Game 2 of the Orioles-Red Sox Series featured more complaints about the Umps. But how bad was it? Game 1 showed inconsistency for sure, and Game 2 shows even more of the same.

First up, the Red Sox. They sent 47 men to the plate in this game, and by my calculations they had 4 blatant miscalls and 5 borderline calls. That's only 19% of their batters, which is a huge drop from game 1 on Monday.

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David Ortiz takes the 4th pitch for a called strike in the first inning.

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In the third, Jason Bay takes the first pitch for a called strike.

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Dustin Pedroia takes a pitch inside for a called strike one. You'll notice a lot of pitches in that area of the plate being called for strikes in this game.

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Pedroia again, this time in the 9th inning, taking the first pitch for an inside strike.

To see some additional questionable calls to the Red Sox batters, click here.

The Orioles had a bit more questionable calls than the Red Sox did in this game. I counted 12 obvious miscalls and one borderline miscall to Melvin Mora. They sent 40 batters to the plate in the game, making for mistakes on about 32% of the batters.

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Here's Luke Scott in the 2nd inning, taking the fifth pitch for a called strike.

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Felix Pie takes the first pitch for a called strike. I suppose this one could be considered somewhat borderline actually.

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Matt Wieters gets a bad outside called strike on the 2nd pitch.

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Brian Roberts gets totally screwed in the sixth inning as pitches 3 and 5 are both called strikes.

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Felix Pie takes the 2nd pitch for a strike, also in the 6th inning.

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The last mistake of the 6th inning. After the 2nd pitch is called a strike, Nick Markakis chases the third out of the zone for the K.

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On to the 7th inning and Aubrey Huff. The 2nd pitch is called a strike, so when the fourth pitch went to the same place Aubrey went after it.

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Luke Scott takes the 2nd pitch for a ball despite its location, but doesn't get as lucky on the third pitch, a called strike well outside.

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Felix Pie in the 8th inning. He swung at the 2nd pitch but managed to hold back on the third. Didn't matter since it was called a strike anyway.

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Nolan Reimold gets a lucky ball called in the 8th inning.

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Oscar Salazar takes the first pitch for a strike.

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For the fourth mistake in the 8th inning, Matt Wieters takes the first pitch for a called strike. Is that why he chased pitches 3 and 4?

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And here's the borderline call for Melvin Mora in the 2nd inning, a pitch called in Melvin's favor.

Pretty awful. A lot of those pitches were called incorrectly near the same part of the plate which I guess is why you saw other swinging pitches in that zone as the batters tried to get to them.

I'll tackle game 3 later on today probably.

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Jim Palmer on the umpiring

In Tuesday’s game, Jim Palmer sounded off about umpire Tony Randazzo and his deplorable calls behind the plate.

This is after a ball at least 6 inches off the plate is called a strike during Felix Pie’s at bat in the bottom of the 8th when facing Jonathan Papelbon with 2 on and only 1 out. Pie later strikes out in the at bat.

Jim Palmer: Oooooh, you’ve got to be kiddin’ me. That ball is so far outside that is, I mean that’s just, that’s just horrible umpiring. I don’t care if this was George Sherrill. I mean look at this ball. That’s pathetic umpiring whether you’re the Orioles or the Red Sox and he should be ashamed of himself because you just gotta be better than that.

Gary Thorne: Boy, not even close

Jim: Yea that’s, I tell you what. I know Richie Garcia was here last night, he’s got to be embarassed about the performance Randazzo is putting on tonight….Because you know, Dave Trembley, he certainly doesn’t want to get tossed or one of these players to go but again, you have supervisors because they’re supposed to sit behind home plate. You can have all the cameras in the world and if you look at Jerry Lane, that was horrible last night for both sides. Tonight Randazzo’s been horrible. You can’t put up with these kind of guys. You know if you play poorly, they send you to the minor leagues. And Joe Torre used to say ‘hey, you know what? They make mistakes, we go to another ball club, they go onto the next city and sooner or later you have to make umpires accountable.’ They have not been very good in these first two games.

BK

by BKsportstake on Jul 2, 2009 11:24 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Scott’s 2nd pitch (left) and Pie’s 4th pitch (right) in the eighth inning… exact same place… different calls. It doesn’t get more obvious than that. Great work Stacey. This must really be sticking in your crawl.

Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."

by dayzd toe on Jul 2, 2009 11:32 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I just find it so frustrating

It’s tough enough to beat the other team when all things are equal. But how can you compete when you have no idea what you’re supposed to be swinging at and what you can let go by?

I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry

by Stacey on Jul 2, 2009 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Dave was livid during Wednesday's game

since it was Wired Wednesday, he was miked and was asked about the out call at 2B when Peds didn’t even the ball in his glove.

“There’s no point even going ut there with these guys….” and just went on from there. He’d basically given up any hope of competence from this crew.

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 2, 2009 6:56 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Thanks for doing this Stacey

I can understand it when umpires have slightly different strike zones, but this kind of inconsistency really grinds my gears.

by dkdc on Jul 2, 2009 7:38 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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