Calls Mount for Umpire's Firing After Dreadful Performance in Dodgers Game
Professionalism and objectivity be damned, veteran MLB umpire Mike Estabrook may want to gift Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani a free call or two.
Ohtani's latest viral home run took most of the attention off Estrabrook following the Dodgers' 8-7 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night. The popular Umpire Auditor X (formerly Twitter) account found that Estabrook missed 21 calls.
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How bad are 21 missed calls over a nine-inning game?
'With a correct call rate of only 86.5%, this was the 5th worst called game of the season,' Umpire Auditor shared.
Yikes.
It's been an especially rough stretch for home-plate umpires. Both teams' fans and announcers blasted Tony Randazzo during Monday's game between the San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies following a missed third-strike call on Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto.
Umpire Auditor posted that Bacon missed 17 calls, including 14 against the Orioles, in last Sunday's game between Baltimore and the Toronto Blue Jays. Eight missed calls, all against the Orioles, came in the first three innings.
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Social media users didn't have patience for those two and certainly had no sympathy for Estabrook.
'That first pitch called strike to Michael Toglia should have Mike Estabrook in an unemployment line tomorrow,' one X commenter wrote, referring to an eighth-inning low strike against the Rockies first baseman.
'Mike Estabrook is certainly calling this game,' another added. 'Not well, mind you.'
MLB umpire Mike Estabrook in 2024Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images
Theoretically, veteran umpires shouldn't have such awful games. Estabrook worked his first MLB game in 2006 and became a full-time umpire in 2014.
'Why are we not using the challenge system yet ?' former Miami Marlins minor-leaguer Zach Moore asked. 'This is unacceptable.'
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Moore isn't alone in wondering why MLB hasn't permanently implemented the ABS. Social media and improved pitch tracking have made it far easier to prove an umpire's strike calls are incorrect.
If anything, Estabrook's performance is more reason for Major League Baseball to implement the Automated Ball-Strike system. Umpire Auditor found that Roberto Ortiz called the worst game last season. Ortiz missed an incredible 30 calls during a September game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals.
'If you're a major league umpire...you should not be this bad,' an X user wrote of Estabrook.
Related: Calls Mount for Umpire's Firing After Orioles' Loss to Blue Jays
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