My very subjective, unbiased opinion of the top 10 worst calls of all time. Measuring these took a combination of how bad the call was along with the leverage of the situation.
Only minimal changes would have to be retroactively made to the record books. No offense to Jason Donald but having your career hit total readjusted from 142 to 141 doesn't seem like a big deal. Donald and Crowe would have their stats gently and inconsequentially adjusted, and Galarraga would be granted the perfecto that he very obviously earned. I say give that king his crown, he deserves it
Why? He has done something that had never and will never happen again. MLB’s only 28 out perfect game. Can you name every pitcher to throw a perfect game? No. But can you remember who pitched a 28 out perfect game? Hell yea.
Jim Joyce made the worst call in MLB history, but he and Galarraga shared the greatest display of sportsmanship afterwards. Being from Detroit and watching it live on TV and getting ready to go crazy over witnessing the entirety of a perfect game, only for Joyce to make that awful call, made so many people really angry. Seeing the replay made him realize the grave mistake he had just made and he was in tears. But Galarraga told him that it was ok and accepted all the apologies that Joyce gave him and made Joyce feel better about the call. He didn’t want Joyce to be a pariah. He didn’t want Joyce to feel as if he made the worst call ever. That’s sportsmanship through and through.
Screw Joyce. He deserves to be hated. He sure as hell did NOTHING to rectify his mistake at the time. If no one said a word to him he wouldn't have shed a tear.
@@zackattack7103 Chill with the empty anger. Joyce was repeatedly voted the best umpire by the players and he was upfront about his mistake immediately after the game after reviewing the tape. There was no instant replay and the umps didn't convince him to override.
The outcome of his missed call was the biggest, but it was a close play. Some of these other calls were outrageous. Thankfully we have instant replay now to get these right -- although it didn't help with Rosales's HR.
The right thing for MLB to do is to reverse that call and credit Galaraga with the perfect game. IDK if he is still alive, but it was the third out and would have ended the game.
Robot umps > old dudes with no comprehension of a consistent strike zone... especially angel Hernandez who couldn't even ump a good game if you made him the 3rd base ump so he'd see less action.
@@HolySoopCoolers it worked, that was absurd, I remember that game. Some of those pitches were over a foot outside, or as Ucker would say, "just a bit outside"
the silver lining with the imperfect game, is the tremendous accountability and humility shown by jim joyce afterward, and the tremendous class shown by gallaraga. it may not be a perfect game in the stat books, but he’s got an unique piece of baseball history for sure.
I still don't understand to this day why they haven't gone back and changed it. It wouldn't be that hard. He made the next out so it's not like changing it to the perfect game he deserves would be an issue. Even with Jim Joyce the next day apologizing MLB just can't stand being wrong I guess.
@@AdapTShadows it could open a can of worms , “well, we need to change this call, and this call,” , but , I do think it was the straw that broke the camel’s back to usher in instant reply, so that’s another positive
@@jbdixon4020 I definitely get that, would be a huge can of worms. Like the 85 world series. I just think that going back and changing calls that could give someone a historical milestone so long as it doesn't affect the outcome of the game, should be done. Gallarga deserves to be on the list of pitchers who've thrown perfect games,
Okay perhaps but it seems like some umps like to be spoilers or want to keep a status quo whether it be balls and strikes or getting a player back for some prior incident they're really more game managers than accurate officials not saying this happened here but seems umps like to fudge the calls against a player if he's having a really good game
Yeah the ump did finally admit to getting the call wrong years later but baseball being the rigid game that it is has yet to award him his perfect game sucks
@@kalymnos0410 okaaay I only got this info on a news broadcast if you could give me footage showing this hard to believe a man without eyes could produce tears
As a Tiger fan that fell to the floor in pain at the end of the imperfect game, I agree that was appropriately ranked #1. But the Livan Hernandez strike zone sequence was the most egregious series of calls I've ever seen. That home plate ump should have been publicly fired the very next day.
@@bobevans2329 , you don’t think either rightly deserve to be in the HOF? Come on. Both pitched during the height of the juicing era, so, at worst, it was a wash. Both would have adjusted to whatever zone there was. Maddux is a top ten pitcher of all time by any standard. Maddux faced 20,421 batters in his career. Only 310 saw a 3-0 count, and 177 of those were intentional walks.
Tdot Game… ridiculous comment. The base runner was upset over the blown call… he sprinted to 1st because he wanted to break the Perfect Game FAIRLY. NOT have it given to him on a blown call.
@@kckcmctcrc actually, baseball is a weird gentleman's game where you don't bunt in that situation, you don't take a walk and you don't run all-out when you hit the ball in the infield. Is that wrong, absolutely! but that's the way they want the game to be played.
I remember the Galaragga safe call and felt so angry for him. But watching the crazy strike zone in the Hernandez game was nuts too! Ump must've had to take a dump.
I used to watch the Braves with my Dad and I have never seen him more livid at anything in his life than Eric Gregg's strikezone. He wanted to get in his car and drive to Miami as soon as that game was over.
All the Braves hitters knew they couldn't argue because their starters had enlarged strikezones every game. Javy Lopez setting up in the opposite batters box everytime.
@@breadandcircuses8127 I remember watching the Braves starters in the 90s and I remember it was discussed amongst baseball commentators. You could see 1 of Javy Lopez and Eddie Perez’s legs in the other batters box 6 inches off the plate. No assumptions here, going off facts.
@@rp2655 That was a thing in baseball back then. It wasn't just the Braves. It was a trend over a decade where umpires stopped calling strikes above the belt, but started calling stuff just off the black. That being said, most of the calls were an inch or two off the plate, but Gregg was calling was 6+ inches, easily. This video doesn't do it justice, as it just shows the final strike. In some of these AB's the final strike was a true strike, but during the AB there were previous ones (especially one Blauser AB), that were just so bad it made Leslie Nielsen look competent.
Crazy to see some of these old plays, and how lenient umpires were in the screaming and protesting they allowed before ejecting someone. Nowadays, you even look at an umpire after a borderline call, you’re gone instantly
Because there was a lot more respect for the umpires calls before we were able to slow everything down frame by frame, especially with balls and strikes as you could see. A strike a foot outside didn’t even make the batter blink, but nowadays half the times hitters complain about borderline calls IN the strike zone!
@@sportsfix6975 Yeah, usually they just sit in the club house and watch the game or change into street clothes and watch the game from the stands. They rarely ever leave the stadium before the game is over.
The one thing about the perfect game is Jim Joyce really did feel the heat of his mistake. This man took it far more personally than any ump would have. Did he f up. Yeah. Did he show just how badly he regretted it. Yes. And that's more than any other ump in this vid. Such a sad situation for Gallaraga, Detroit, baseball fans at large, and Joyce
then again, other than being one of 20 something in history (that's bound to increase over time) to pitch a perfect game, he's one of one with such a unique situation
No. It was an absolutely despicable call. He will forever be known for possibly the worst call in MLB history. Jim Joyce, the ump who ruined a perfect game.
I'm convinced that on the fan interference play between the Orioles and Yanks, it would have been called fan interference if Derek Jeter hadn't been the hitter. Or if the Orioles were playing anyone other than the Yanks.
Honestly, the imperfect game call notwithstanding, the Adam Rosales call is the most glaring to me because it was AFTER replay had been instituted and the clowns in NY still got it wrong despite the obvious change of angle and direction on the fence above the HR line on the wall.
See thats the difference. The first year or two of instant replay they didnt have that extra official in New York, it was the crew chief's final decision.
Another big one is Twins vs Yankees at Yankees where Mauer hit a slicing ball down the left field line, the fielder touched it fair, it landed fair, bounced over the fence for a ground rule double, but was called a foul ball.
i saw that one live and I saw he touched it live. Because it he was in bounds, this is an easy call even if the ump was shielded to where the ball landed. Im starting to wonder if some of these umps are cheating on their eye exams. If I could catch it from my couch, I think an ump right there would have no problem at all to see that.
I simply didn't (and still don't) understand why one of the other umpires didn't discreetly tell Jim Joyce, "Uh, Jim... he was out by a full step and it's a perfect game. We need to correct the call now."
Umpires don't change their calls without some kind of official review. It just does not happen, ever. He knew it was wrong but was unwilling to set a precedent.
@@Ambrosia-vw1gyno, umpires do revert their call sometimes. The simple reason they didn’t here is, the other umpires just couldn’t tell. On camera from different angles it’s obvious, especially since we can slow it down. Only seeing it in real time once makes it much more difficult to tell. If they can’t say for sure, then they’ll refer to the opinion of the closest ump with the best view.
If they conferences and didn’t change it then Jim Joyce got hung out to dry by his crew. But if I remember right there was no conference. Can’t believe Leyland didn’t get him to ask for help.
Game 6 of the 1985 World's Series. I remember Don Denkinger's blown call at first base. In an SI interview, the following Spring he admitted blowing the call. It still hurts 40 years on to see that play.
You have no idea how they are or aren’t held to account. In fact, they are. Incorrect calls, especially the misapplication of a rule, impacts their playoff assignments and their job in MLB. They’re human. They’re going to make errors in judgment on occasion. Players make errors, pitchers throw wild pitches, catchers allow passed balls from time to time. Managers make substitution mistakes and strategic errors all the time. Do you expect them to lose their jobs for an occasional mistake? Let’s just replace them with computers too.
Silent Crow: What are you basing that assertion on? You DO realize that MLB umpires are evaluated, every call, every game by external auditors. And playoff assignments with a sizable salary bump are merit based with one of the contributing considerations being in-season performance.
Miggie was so excited and disappointed in one second. They were all bad calls. Galarraga got robbed a perfect game. Got a new subscriber. Was fun to watch. Great video
No, they weren't all bad calls. #9 was indisputably a correct call and #6 is correct because there's no proof it wasn't. I haven't looked that closely at the other calls.
@@hbk314 Bro you’ve clearly never read a rule book or been an umpire. #9 is indisputably an INCORRECT call. It’s called the INFIELD fly rule. That ball was in left field. The infield fly is there to prevent cheap double plays, and there’s no way he could thrown it to third and then to second before the runner from first got there (runners from first run halfway to the base in that situation). It was clearly not in the infield, and the worst that could’ve happened was a force out at 3rd. The offense was robbed of a base runner and an out. #6 isn’t even close. You can clearly see his glove swipe up the runner as he slides. When the throw beats the runner by that much, you don’t call the runner safe unless he obviously missed the tag, which is not the case here. Not trying to be a dick, but as someone who’s umpired for 5 years now, I don’t know how you can possibly say these were the correct calls. If there was any argument to be made about them being correct, they wouldn’t be on top 10 worst calls especially since neither occurred in a high-stakes postseason game. They’re on here because they’re painfully obvious blown calls.
@@brendonbuffaloe8830 Excellent job embarrassing yourself. I've both umpired and read the rulebook. You absolutely need to brush up on the rules if you plan on continuing to umpire. It's hilarious that you tell me to read the rulebook immediately before claiming it has to be in the infield to be called an Infield Fly, which is obviously false. I'll wait for an actual, rulebook-supported reason as to why you believe that call was incorrect. As for the swipe tag in extras, I don't recall ever seeing a video showing a clear tag. Jerry Meals had an angle that's better than any replay has. It's a correct call absent conclusive evidence otherwise. Blame the catcher for doing a terrible job. Also, just for the record, "the ball beat him" isn't a legitimate argument, and I hope you never say that to someone arguing a call. At the levels the vast majority of umpires work (especially solo or two-man), we may have to officiate that way because we can't be everywhere at once. MLB, especially in the era of instant replay, cannot officiate the same way.
I don't think Atlanta fans give a rip about what the commentator thinks embarrasses them. What's embarrassing is the umps call and the commentator's quickness in blaming the fans instead of focusing on the call.
The thing that was bad about Galarraga’s imperfect game was the umpire who called him safe. The very next game was in tears, addressing to the crowd and telling Galarraga how sorry he was that he ruined history, and I just couldn’t help myself, but feeling so bad for the umpire he made a bad car, and he knew that he did when he saw it again
Eric Gregg, rest his soul, was an awful home plate umpire. I remember him calling out Andrew Jones in the WS (against the Yankees) on a 3-2 slider that was at least 2 feet wide. "My strike zone," he said. His strike zone was not baseball's.
Fair return for how wide the strike zone Greg Maddox used to get with the Braves. He was so good no reason to give him calls off of both side of the plate when the TV box would show it consistently off the left and ride sides and players getting punched out.
Good on Jim Joyce for admitting his mistake and apologizing to Galarraga. If Angel Hernandez was the umpire in that game he probably would’ve tossed Galarraga for grinning after the call.
Can we get an honerable mention for the play in the 2021 World Series game 6, where brantley stepped on frieds foot, completely missed the bag, and was called safe?
From what I remember, that was the right call by the rulebook, and that's why Atlanta didn't challenge that call. If you go back, Walt Weiss was on the phone to check with the other coaches to see if they should challenge, and you can see Snitker look over, then signal play on to the umpires. I think the rule was that since Brantley didn't make a turn towards second, that even though he missed the bag, going past it made him safe. So if anything, it's a cruddy rule, but called correctly. And Fried went sicko mode after that anyway, so it all worked out haha
It's amazing how many involved the Braves on either side. Sure that 19th inning was stupid, but the Bravos (especially in the 90's) seemed to get royally screwed on a nightly basis.
They still get screwed frequently, especially on replay calls. A recent series for them against the Mets saw them get multiple calls overturned in outright ridiculous ways.
@@2005StangMan No question never does the Braves any good to challenge especially when they are in the right, Has to be as blatant as the Joyce call for them to get it. I can't remember the circumstance but there was a call that went the Braves way in the last couple weeks and Jeff Francoeur was laughing on the broadcast because he didn't expect the call to break for the Braves.
Wasn't in MLB, but shout out to the umpires from the Mexican league that got a checked swing call wrong so badly that not only were they suspended, the two umpires *not* involved in it were given probation for not overruling it.
On that should-have-been-last-out-of-perfect-game, Cabrera actually made a great play - hard to his right, backhand, turned his body, got off a strong, accurate throw, leading his pitcher to the bag. If Joyce had called it right, this might have been the best fielding play ever made to make the last out of a PG.
Yeah, they're human and their job is really hard. It's easy to understand a mistake. It's the arrogance and infallibility they display that is so maddening.
He still deserves nothing but hate. Unless it's blatant, you call the runner out in that case. Even if it were a bang bang play you call the runner out
I recall the umpire in the Red Sox vs Yankees phantom tag game saying he blew the call after the game and felt terrible about it. The Yankees had a similar break a previous game in that series that the umpire also missed the call. Sox fans were understandably upset and started throwing things on the filed after that phantom tag because it was the second one of the series late in the game. Yankees won that series in 5 games but it was a much closer series than that implies, thanks in part to those blown calls.
@@kevinconnor6035 I think to be an official you have to have the “I made the right call” mentality no matter what (unless it’s a huge mistake like these). You can’t really afford to second guess yourself on close plays when one side is going to cry about the call either way. Hell half the time on replays where you slow it down frame by frame the call could still go either way
@@calhounhills860 But it didn't cost the Cardinals a World Series. There was no guarantee they would've scored a run, and maybe they should've showed up to Game 7.
@@1912RamblerFan01 I agree, Cardinal fans love to say this cost them the title, but they seem to forgot they laid down and rolled over in game 7. As aggravating as they are, bad calls are part of the game, and these guys are supposed to be pros. They should be able to get over it and come out fighting the next time, which they did not do. I never liked the 85 Cardinals, thought they were mostly a bunch of whiners, with a few exceptions. Yes, they got ripped off in that call, but instead of crying, though should have manned up and acted like champions.
The fact that the perfect game missed call was the last out of the game I never understood why MLB couldn't have said after the game that the ump was wrong, and corrected the box score.
@@angeleyes9951- They do. Major League Baseball often changes hits to errors and vice versa after games. In this instance, though, they would never change the actual outcome of a safe or out call.
@@chili015 Corrections to box scores is a different animal to retroactively changing results. If you do it for Joyce, you give a thousand guys a reason to complain at the MLB on the precedent alone. They simply can't.
In that moment Galarraga showed us all what class and grace and temperance looks like. Joyce in return displayed great humility and genuine accountability and atonement. It was a transcendent outcome greater than a perfect game that we were all too blind with anger to see at the time.
That's on the fans for never letting this go lol. Anyone who has ever umpired knows how hard a bang bang play can be. It was a bad call but you've eventually gotta let these go.
Livan Hernandez struck out 15 when in reality it should have been about 6 and the umps helped rob the braves on a world series berth. how that is only number 7 is beyond me. It wasn't one bad call, it was like 20......in ONE game.
That’s Angel Hernandez for ya ! 😂😂😂 He’s so stupid he got that A’s Homer wrong with video proof . Dude shouldn’t even be allowed to sell hot dogs at a game let alone ump it !
I remember Sam Holbrook calling that infield fly. The reason fans were so pissed was because we had momentum going, it was the single elimination game for the NL Wildcard, and it was also Chipper Jones' last game of his career. I thought the fans were absolutely in their right to show their frustration the way they did. So long as no one got hurt.
seems that MLB did not want Atlanta to win back in the 90s. The umps helped the Twins win the 1991 world series, and helped the Yankees win the 96 world series several times.
@@breadandcircuses8127 the umps gifted the Yankees a home run in game 1 of the ALCS. it was actually fan interference which should have been ruled a double. In Game 4 of the world series, one of the umpires got in the way of a Braves player trying to catch a routine pop fly. That extended the inning and allowed the Yankees to get 2 free runs.
5:09 This is the worst call of them all right here. That was not a home run. I watched it live and thought the same then. This kid was treated like a rock star after this. Meanwhile poor Steve Bartman received death threats for his interference.
What do you expect from Yankee fans? And Rich Garcia has been involved in controversy involving the Yankees before, so no surprise. Nevertheless as much as I love my Orioles the better team won, period. I have to be objective az either way they would have found a way to beat us as they usually did in those days, plus Benitez was horrible, so yeah...
It's really a shame the cubs won a world series after what the Cubs fans did to that Bartman guy. How about your shitty club get's an out after that play? Nah, we'll just blame that guy cuz we're pos cub fans. Weak fuckers.
Bartman didn’t actually do anything. He was just the scapegoat. You wanna blame someone? Blame the actual Cubs team that committed a folly of errors: leaving in a tired pitcher, Gonzalez’s dropped double play, Prior’s wild pitch, Farnsworth failing to get the necessary 2 outs. Bartman did not lose this game for the Cubs, the Cubs lost it themselves. What made the situation go the way it did was the Fox broadcast focusing on the Bartman incident and not the comedy of errors on the field.
9:24 I am a life-long Cleveland Indians fan and I'm sorry, but the "Imperfect Game" will go down in the annals of WORST of the worst. We were all pulling hard to see something so awesome as a perfect game, and Galerraga was robbed of it. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason as to how the runner was safe! But...I have to give umpire Jim Joyce phenomenal kudos because the very next game, he went up to Galarraga before the match and talked with him, shook hands and pat his shoulder. There were tears in his eyes. Galarraga after the "imperfect game" pretty much laughed it off. There was no bad blood, no insults, no complaints. His sportsmanship was incredible and uplifting. And...I guess that's how you play sports, folks. It's called "sportsmanship" for a reason. Maybe we can all learn from that. :D
And here at WYCSports we are sorry that you are a life-long Cleveland fan 😀- how did the Lofton, Baerga, Thome, Ramirez, Belle team not win?????? That lineup was insane!!!
@@WYCSports It was definitely Game 3 of the 1997 World Series that pretty much did it for me. How we let Florida get 14 runs - on our home turf. it just didn't make sense. We had come back to tie the series at 1. Coming home now with a chance to win the series at home. That 14-11 loss... that was just crazy. Allowing Florida SEVEN runs in the 9th...? I'll never understand that.
I saw a virtually identical play to the Galarraga travesty in a minor league game once. This was for a regular old no-hitter though, and the play was a routine grounder to 2B. This was in 1992 and the pitcher's name was Rodney Steph. I'm not still bitter about this or anything.
Watching it live I thought it was brutal too. Looking back, I realize it’s technically the right call(infield fly is called once an infielder is beginning to camp underneath a pop fly). Though incredibly painful
As a brave fan I thought the call at first base in the Cardinals Royals World Series was a bad call too. At that time I was for the Cardinals because they were the national league team. I think St Louis was robbed of That World Series.
@@donaldmackerer9032 The rule specifies a pop fly or fly ball that can be caught by an infielder, it doesn’t need to be on the infield dirt/grass. It also says “with ordinary effort” which is at the umps discretion. I wouldn’t call it simply because of how far he has to go out for the ball, but it was called because he was able to drift and begin to camp underneath the ball. He then gave up on it🤦🏻♂️
You've got to add Wilmer Flores being called out in the 9th inning of game 7of the playoffs against the Dodgers in 2021 for the most obvious checked swing I've ever seen.
I've always been confused by the color commentator in that clip. "It hits the rail, it goes up, then comes down" ? It's like he's describing the replay being reversed and advanced (so as to convincingly show the ball hitting the railing behind the wall).
@@drewizkoollikeicecre This was in the infancy of Instant Replay in baseball. They only had a small TV screen installed in a hallway to look at it, so they ended up sticking with the call on the field. With today's centralized replay, that's a home run 100 times out of 100.
@@Streaming_Music That's fine but 100 years from now, will they still be talking about it if it's not in the official record? They took a little bit of history away from that pitcher.
I agree with that, but then the following plate appearance would have to be excised from the records. Which can be done, but it adds to the messiness of the situation.
@@staringatthesun861 Official records, statistics, and standards are never written in stone and have been severely compromised in this century alone--especially in the aughts during the height of the Steroid Era. Also, long-standing postseason records will inevitably be eclipsed because more teams will be in the postseason, etc. Think of all the games that have been played in the modern era, and only 21 perfect games have been pitched...That blown call would have been overturned in a second under today's instant replay rules. Baseball needs to erase this mistake. I don't know anyone who would be against it.
I was 10 living in Los Angeles and that call made me realize that life wasn’t fair, that fair had no meaning in the world, and that life will just go on. I was shattered.😕
2:53 "...disappointing from the fans at Turner field..." No, it's disappointing that the umpire made the wrong call. If you don't want to make fans angry, get the call right. 4:21 Nice job of including Eric Gregg's shameful performance. Top marks, excellent video.
I literally can't watch that Galaraga play. I always turn away whenever the play comes on. I'm not even a Tigers fan but to get screwed out of a perfect game makes me sick.
What's funny is that even with replay, the A's got screwed out of a home run call in Cleveland. Thankfully the replays have gotten a lot better over the years, and there's less past their prime umpires in the league
The single worst call I have ever seen came the year the Posey rule was implemented. A runner attempting to score was thrown out by such a wide margin that he came to a complete stop. The catcher walked over and tagged the runner on the chest. The umpire ruled that the runner was safe because the catcher had not given the runner a path to the plate.
I watched a whole separate video digging into Jim Joyce/Galaraga, to say it was devastating is an understatement, both teams were royally pissed off, Jim Joyce almost got jumped by the crowd so many times when leaving, that game is just a black spot on MLB
Yeah it was accepted Metropolitan stadium was playing games with the air conditioning. They even admitted it later on. The twins got away with cheating that whole series.
a few of them (the Jeffery Maier fan interference), the Kansas City - St Louis call at first, the perfect game, were not even close. How the umpires blew such obvious calls, I have no idea. Even live speed these were all obvious, and watching the replays, even more so. It is easy to second guess the umpires in all sports on 'close' calls, but some of the calls are not even close.
The Jeffery Maier one was especially confusing because it was a playoff game and there were umpires stationed in the outfield whose only job was get home run/fan interference calls right. He had ONE JOB
The announcers in the cheatin' jeff game are looking at the monitor as WE were, and STILL didn't see anything right away. Prob'ly half-guzzled. Remember when pompous Woody Hayes punched that kid after a turnover. EVERYBODY saw the buffoon hitting the kid, but only after 5-6 replays, they were forced to admit the senile old fart PUNCHED the player.
@@elimarcus8627foolish baseball has a good vid on it and how there was no camera at the right angle or high enough quality to see if it was a tag, and honestly I think the ump made the right call
Funny I just wrote that in response to the Braves fans moaning. Maddux used to get calls way off both sides of the plate. The guy was so good he didn't need that kind of help. Let alone the Stan Belinda no call after he threw a ball right down the middle of the plate in the 92 NLCS. Nah I'm not a bitter Pirate fan!!
You can't tell me a regular season game that ended with the same outcome, minus a personal achievement is worse than a 1st out in the 9th inning of a world series clinching game that cascaded out of control with the change in momentum.
It's pretty inaccurate though, from what I've seen. Basing calls on where the center of the ball is, not the edge, so many corner and edge strikes are just registering as balls.
@@quigonkenny uh yeah thats the point. You cant get an umpire screwing the game up by having the edge calls be different every batter and every game. You should see an average game and know a robot cannot be worse than a human. Seriously you think a human eye watching a ball come by at 90-100 mph can tell if it is in the zone or not? Thats like the police just guessing your speed and pulling you over instead of using a radar gun. "uh sir i think you were going over the speed limit, just guessing by my own judgement here."
@@zgaviation6481 I doubt that is accurate. Besides its the varying zones that end up deciding games sometimes. One missed call and you change the course of a game or series even.The idea is to have it consistent. The technology will progress to be much better than a human approximation.
@@alanhess9306 Thats the point. Its a stupid, poorly written rule that has a clear, intuitive way it SHOULD work to anyone with at least 3 brain cells to rub together, it SHOULD say: Infielders foot touches outfield grass while in pursuit of the ball means its not an infield fly......I mean duh.........simple sensible rule everyone can immediately see and understand. Why does it not work like that? Because baseball? Yea great argument. I mean now we are out here giving free goddamn doubles in extra innings now so if we can mess up the game like that then surely we can fix the infield fly rule. Ill be here all week. Tell the commissioner Im free any time after 10 AM. I can solve all sorts of these stupid baseball problems practically in my sleep.
@@danr154 The only problem with the infield fly rule is that it is called the infield fly rule, so people who don't understand the rule think the ball must come down in the infield . The rule clearly states that if the ball COULD be caught by an infielder, the rule is in effect. There is nothing wrong with the rule, it does not need changing.
@@alanhess9306 there's a WHOLE lot of sac fly hits that COULD be caught be an infielder, especially with shifts in play. Would break the game if your interpretation of the rule is carried out objectively.
@@TimCarter The only one of any significance that I recall is the non call on what was clearly a third strike before Tino Martinez hit that grand slam in Game 1 of the 98 World Series.
Watching the World Series last night (3 Nov 2022,) the balls/strikes calls by the umpire was/were atrocious. Sure, he got the call right when the pitch is right down the middle - - - or when the ball is WAY off the plate. But the ump was missing about 40% of all the "close" calls. It may be time for "electronic" umpires.
There is absolutely no argument against replay review and robo-umps that makes sense. Humans make mistakes, it’s in our nature. Being angry about being proven wrong and having to reverse your own call is no excuse for not implementing them.
Wowww, never seen the Livan Hernandez strikezone before.. each one makes me really angry, and the batters barely care when they’re rung up on a pitch 12 inches off the plate like what. Each of those would be an ejection in today’s game.
Those were the most blatant for me. I do remember Livan being a huge thing back then because of his story escaping Cuba, and MLB really, really, really wanted to hype him up. I think that's what happened here, he "struck out" like 15 Braves.
Ancient history but in the’70 World Series, the Reds Bernie Carbo was called out at home because the catcher tagged him with his glove. Unfortunately the ball was in the catcher’s bare hand, not in the glove.
More ancient history: Joe Garagiola wrote about a bad call in the late forties or early fifties that was unusual in that Beans Reardon, the umpire, correctly called the runner "Safe!" but accidentally gave the sign for "Out!" Probably a momentary brain fade on Reardon's part, but the damage was done: "Richie, you know you're safe. Billy, you know he's safe. But 30,000 fans see my arm. Richie, you're out."
If you watch the replay of 4:28 it’s very easy to convince yourself that the call was absolutely correct because it’s bordering on impossible to say with any degree of certainty that McHenry didn’t miss that tag If you say it’s clear and obvious you’re either a liar or a Pirates fan
The ball was easily catchable by an infielder. The rule is "by an infielder", not "in the infield". The rule should probably give umpires some discretion to decide whether it was dropped on purpose, but as the rule is written, it's a correct call.
@@Jivvi if it was so easily caught by an infielder, then why did it drop between the infielder and outfielder? It was not an obvious case of infield fly rule because that is to protect the offensive team from an infielder deliberately dropping it and turning a quick double play. That was clearly 100% not the case in this egregious "outfield" fly rule call.
@@thundersnow93 because after the infielder settled _directly_ under the ball, he misjudged the trajectory and moved away from it. The call has to be made while the ball is still in the air, and it was. And at the time, it looked like he'd just stay right where he was and make an easy catch. You're right about the purpose of the rule, but unfortunately that isn't written into the rule. There should be something in it that allows umpires to make a judgement call about whether dropping the catch allowed a double play when there would've otherwise only been one out, and call it after the play. As it stands, they _have_ to make the call while the ball is in the air, preferably when it's at the peak of its flight. I agree that it's egregious, but it egregious because of the way the rule is written, not because of the call. It wasn't a fair call, but it was a correct call.
@@Jivvi Nope, not directly under it... alternating shaded (8 ft wide) lanes of green confirm his pivoted position. Ball landed in next lane over. If he misjudged the trajectory that's his fault, not the opponent. Judgement call for certain. With a no-call, none of us would be commenting here.
@@markcolby9019 "under", not "in the trajectory of". The ball was still moving. If he'd kept going in the same direction instead of going back the other way, he could have caught it easily. "Ordinary effort" is the only part of the rule that's a judgement call, but it applies when the ball is at its highest point, not when it lands. It would be much better if the umpires could call it after seeing what happens if the ball drops, but they can't. It's a terrible rule, but it was a correct call.
The 2009 ALCS Game 4 trifecta belongs in here somewhere, especially Tim McClellend's horrific 3rd base call which should have been a double play instead of 1 player safe because...well, only his eyes know. He was later quoted after the game as saying "I don't believe that replay."
Honestly, people talk about Galaragga's near perfect game more than any actual perfect game. Hell, I couldn't tell you any other moment where any other pitcher had theirs. But we all remember this one!
@@howardbaxter2514 Umpire was in good position and had a better angle than any of the replay cameras. Absent evidence to the contrary, the call is correct. As far as the Infield Fly call, it's not reviewable and wouldn't have changed anyway as it was correct.
Even as a life-long Twins fan, I gotta say that Herbeck 100% meant to pull him off the base. “Momentum” my eye… that being said there were a number of calls from the ‘87 series game 7 on both sides that were pretty shocking too
@@tfypt yeah. That was I believe game 6 which totally changed the trajectory of the series. Also my braves threw Charlie effing Liebrant out there in relief in 6 and 7 and he lost both games for us. after giving up the Puckett walk off in game 6, when Cox brought him back out in game 7 I was incredulous. Sure enough, blew it again.
That’s why I don’t want there to be automated ball strike system, it’s entertaining to see players throw temper tantrums and coaches arguing with umps about calls.
As a Braves fan I have seen all of these and it hurts every time, but the worst on the list is the homer called a double when they had instant replay. You have video evidence of all of them, but that one you could overturn and didn't. Ok, as for the Braves ones, the Infield Fly one is awful, the safe call at home against the Pirates is laughable, but it was the 19th inning, I just think the umps wanted to go home that night. Hrbek pulling Gant's leg off the base is still hard to believe that it happened, but the Braves lost that World Series on the bases, not on that play. The one that still pisses me off the most is the phantom strike zone calls with Hernandez and Eric Gregg. I know Gregg is no longer with us, so I will be nicer than he deserves, that strike zone was unreal. He called four pitches a strike that missed the plate by a FOOT. On the other side, one Braves pitcher in the game threw three fastballs down the middle of the plate, center cut, and he called all three balls. He had to have a bet on that game, it is the only thing that makes sense.
The safe at home was right. If you slow it down, he actually just misses his leg and never actually tags him. The Pirates announcer makes me laugh by saying the ball beat him by a mile. Well that means nothing if he is not tagged. The catcher whiffed on the tag.
@@johnbeard5952 Why they absolutely didn't win another one. To make matters worse, for game 7 denkinger was behind the plate and decided to really stick it to the Cardinals... and he did.
@@MP-dn4bs No they didn't. I remember the '97 NLCS and the calls the Marlins' pitchers were getting with pitches 10 inches off the plate. That was an absolute disgrace to baseball.
Nothing wrong with a wide strike zone (makes the game go a little faster and it encourages players to swing more), but that zone was ridiculous. You can't be calling those pitches strikes, especially in a world series game
Ehhh I'm not so sure about the infield fly rule. From my knowledge it has to be in the infield or an easy play for an infielder to make. If it's not an absolute gimme then you don't call it. Next, the main reason its a bad call is that he is so far from the infield that even if he did try to get an easy double play it might have not worked.
@@Voltage-rs7op Nope, it doesn't have to be in the infield (and many infield fly rule calls are not). It just has to be less than 2 outs, 1st & 2nd occupied (3rd can be, but doesn't have to be), and a fly that is catchable (1) by an infielder, and (2) with "ordinary effort". That play clearly was catchable, but the confusion between the infielder and the outfielder caused neither to go for it. That doesn't mean it wasn't catchable with ordinary effort... the ump made the right call. It's not only not one of the worst calls... it's not even a bad call. It's a GOOD call... people who think it's a bad call don't know the rules.
@@mikelyons6104 Nope as well to you. Correct, it can be in the outfield. On the flip side, the pursuing SS was NOT going to catch this fly on this attempt. There was no confusion (miscommunication as many have stated). Better said the wrong fielder made the greater effort to but no avail. This fly was slightly more of an outfielders catch to secure, but Holliday foolishly gave up seeing how his teammate seemed determined to try to get there. True, I wouldn't put this play under the umbrella of "worst", but instead "most controversial."
@Mike Lyons first of all your definition of infield fly was the same as mine so why even say that? Second of all the confusion between the infielder and outfielder is what makes it not an infield fly. Even then what is the shortstop supposed to do to roll the cheap double play? Let it drop and then turn around pick up the ball and turn around again. Even if he does that there is no shot its a double play. If outfielder does the same thing then it doesn't matter because its not an infielder so no infield fly. Basically your point is invalid and a big waste of typing for typing your frikn essay that doesn't even make sense
The call that ruined Galarraga's perfect game was pretty much the last straw when it came to the instant replay debate.
Yep. The baseball world had enough of bumbling umps.
1:50 was viewed in replay and still called wrong.
@@mercdragons Did you notice the reviewing umpire? That should tell us everything we need to know right there...
@@nottelling4828 Hernandez eh?
Hot take they should change that to a perfect game in the record books
I’m not saying the MLB should go back and fix every blown call, but the Galarraga perfect game feels like an exception that nobody would object to.
While true, the story is incredible and memorable. One of those truly rare, wtf, moment that can only happen in sports
Only minimal changes would have to be retroactively made to the record books. No offense to Jason Donald but having your career hit total readjusted from 142 to 141 doesn't seem like a big deal. Donald and Crowe would have their stats gently and inconsequentially adjusted, and Galarraga would be granted the perfecto that he very obviously earned.
I say give that king his crown, he deserves it
Why? He has done something that had never and will never happen again. MLB’s only 28 out perfect game. Can you name every pitcher to throw a perfect game? No. But can you remember who pitched a 28 out perfect game? Hell yea.
Ironically, Galarraga's one-hitter is remembered far more than almost every no-hitter (or heck, every perfect game) in history.
Can’t change history.
Jim Joyce made the worst call in MLB history, but he and Galarraga shared the greatest display of sportsmanship afterwards. Being from Detroit and watching it live on TV and getting ready to go crazy over witnessing the entirety of a perfect game, only for Joyce to make that awful call, made so many people really angry. Seeing the replay made him realize the grave mistake he had just made and he was in tears. But Galarraga told him that it was ok and accepted all the apologies that Joyce gave him and made Joyce feel better about the call. He didn’t want Joyce to be a pariah. He didn’t want Joyce to feel as if he made the worst call ever. That’s sportsmanship through and through.
Screw Joyce. He deserves to be hated. He sure as hell did NOTHING to rectify his mistake at the time. If no one said a word to him he wouldn't have shed a tear.
@@zackattack7103 Chill with the empty anger. Joyce was repeatedly voted the best umpire by the players and he was upfront about his mistake immediately after the game after reviewing the tape. There was no instant replay and the umps didn't convince him to override.
The outcome of his missed call was the biggest, but it was a close play. Some of these other calls were outrageous. Thankfully we have instant replay now to get these right -- although it didn't help with Rosales's HR.
The right thing for MLB to do is to reverse that call and credit Galaraga with the perfect game. IDK if he is still alive, but it was the third out and would have ended the game.
Robot umps > old dudes with no comprehension of a consistent strike zone... especially angel Hernandez who couldn't even ump a good game if you made him the 3rd base ump so he'd see less action.
I remember watching that Livan Hernandez game live and thinking "There is no way that this strike zone can get worse." And then it kept getting worse.
97 nlcs?
@@saints16o5o87yes
Eric Gregg was on the take
The Marlins promised Eric a year’s supply of chicken if he worked the Braves.
@@HolySoopCoolers it worked, that was absurd, I remember that game. Some of those pitches were over a foot outside, or as Ucker would say, "just a bit outside"
the silver lining with the imperfect game, is the tremendous accountability and humility shown by jim joyce afterward, and the tremendous class shown by gallaraga. it may not be a perfect game in the stat books, but he’s got an unique piece of baseball history for sure.
I still don't understand to this day why they haven't gone back and changed it. It wouldn't be that hard. He made the next out so it's not like changing it to the perfect game he deserves would be an issue. Even with Jim Joyce the next day apologizing MLB just can't stand being wrong I guess.
@@AdapTShadows it could open a can of worms , “well, we need to change this call, and this call,” , but , I do think it was the straw that broke the camel’s back to usher in instant reply, so that’s another positive
@@jbdixon4020 I definitely get that, would be a huge can of worms. Like the 85 world series. I just think that going back and changing calls that could give someone a historical milestone so long as it doesn't affect the outcome of the game, should be done. Gallarga deserves to be on the list of pitchers who've thrown perfect games,
Okay perhaps but it seems like some umps like to be spoilers or want to keep a status quo whether it be balls and strikes or getting a player back for some prior incident they're really more game managers than accurate officials not saying this happened here but seems umps like to fudge the calls against a player if he's having a really good game
@@AdapTShadows probly because he only beat the runner by one step lol not lol
That not-perfect game hurts every time I see it
Yeah the ump did finally admit to getting the call wrong years later but baseball being the rigid game that it is has yet to award him his perfect game sucks
@@johnashley391 What are you talking about? He admitted it right after the game ended. He was in tears about it.
@@kalymnos0410 okaaay I only got this info on a news broadcast if you could give me footage showing this hard to believe a man without eyes could produce tears
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As a Tiger fan that fell to the floor in pain at the end of the imperfect game, I agree that was appropriately ranked #1. But the Livan Hernandez strike zone sequence was the most egregious series of calls I've ever seen. That home plate ump should have been publicly fired the very next day.
This longtime Yankee fan's jaw nearly hit the floor when I saw the Umps' goofed the call at first. I'd love to know how he blew it.
Instead, we have Angel Hernandez
Eric Gregg was a terrible umpire. That strike zone in the NLCS with the Marlins - Braves was criminal.
Arguably the worst umpire in MLB history.
It was terrible umpiring, but it was also karma for the career-long terrible calls Maddux and Glavine took advantage of to make the HOF.
@@bobevans2329 , you don’t think either rightly deserve to be in the HOF? Come on. Both pitched during the height of the juicing era, so, at worst, it was a wash. Both would have adjusted to whatever zone there was. Maddux is a top ten pitcher of all time by any standard. Maddux faced 20,421 batters in his career. Only 310 saw a 3-0 count, and 177 of those were intentional walks.
I long for a sim game to have an announcer that says, "Eric Gregg has a strike zone as big as he is!"
A couple of those pitches actually WERE strikes. But the outside corner seemed to stretch for a half-mile.
If the batter gets upset about getting called safe in a perfect game you know he was out.
Dude literally could’ve just jogged to first if he was gonna get upset about it
Tdot Game… ridiculous comment. The base runner was upset over the blown call… he sprinted to 1st because he wanted to break the Perfect Game FAIRLY. NOT have it given to him on a blown call.
@@kckcmctcrc exactly, guy still had a job to do. But that call definitely didn't sit well with him.
@@kckcmctcrc actually, baseball is a weird gentleman's game where you don't bunt in that situation, you don't take a walk and you don't run all-out when you hit the ball in the infield. Is that wrong, absolutely! but that's the way they want the game to be played.
No doubt about it! Even he would have overturned that call.
I remember the Galaragga safe call and felt so angry for him. But watching the crazy strike zone in the Hernandez game was nuts too! Ump must've had to take a dump.
Gregg was a disgusting jerk whose strike zone was wider than his fat Assad. He was awful.
I just posted the same comment!
I used to watch the Braves with my Dad and I have never seen him more livid at anything in his life than Eric Gregg's strikezone. He wanted to get in his car and drive to Miami as soon as that game was over.
All the Braves hitters knew they couldn't argue because their starters had enlarged strikezones every game. Javy Lopez setting up in the opposite batters box everytime.
@@breadandcircuses8127 I remember watching the Braves starters in the 90s and I remember it was discussed amongst baseball commentators. You could see 1 of Javy Lopez and Eddie Perez’s legs in the other batters box 6 inches off the plate. No assumptions here, going off facts.
Eric Gregg threw the game. He is the worst umpire I have ever seen, in 68 years of watching baseball. He guaranteed a Marlins victory. john Kinsey
Why would he do that when the players AND umpires were headed back his way to Atlanta after that game anyway?
@@rp2655 That was a thing in baseball back then. It wasn't just the Braves. It was a trend over a decade where umpires stopped calling strikes above the belt, but started calling stuff just off the black. That being said, most of the calls were an inch or two off the plate, but Gregg was calling was 6+ inches, easily. This video doesn't do it justice, as it just shows the final strike. In some of these AB's the final strike was a true strike, but during the AB there were previous ones (especially one Blauser AB), that were just so bad it made Leslie Nielsen look competent.
Crazy to see some of these old plays, and how lenient umpires were in the screaming and protesting they allowed before ejecting someone. Nowadays, you even look at an umpire after a borderline call, you’re gone instantly
Because there was a lot more respect for the umpires calls before we were able to slow everything down frame by frame, especially with balls and strikes as you could see. A strike a foot outside didn’t even make the batter blink, but nowadays half the times hitters complain about borderline calls IN the strike zone!
Dude now a days if the call is borderline they just start tossing coaches before they come out of the dug out lmao
Managers; when they want to go to the clubhouse or go watch their kids' theater or Graduation, they get tossed early...
Or when they're in the field playing 3rd base.
@@sportsfix6975 Yeah, usually they just sit in the club house and watch the game or change into street clothes and watch the game from the stands. They rarely ever leave the stadium before the game is over.
The one thing about the perfect game is Jim Joyce really did feel the heat of his mistake. This man took it far more personally than any ump would have. Did he f up. Yeah. Did he show just how badly he regretted it. Yes. And that's more than any other ump in this vid. Such a sad situation for Gallaraga, Detroit, baseball fans at large, and Joyce
then again, other than being one of 20 something in history (that's bound to increase over time) to pitch a perfect game, he's one of one with such a unique situation
He also asked the commissioner to overrule but Selig refused to do so.
You won't ever see that out of Hernandez. He's a world class prick.
No. It was an absolutely despicable call. He will forever be known for possibly the worst call in MLB history. Jim Joyce, the ump who ruined a perfect game.
@@mattrg320I’d rather have an ump mess up and acknowledge his mistake than a blind ump that refuses to take accountability
I'm convinced that on the fan interference play between the Orioles and Yanks, it would have been called fan interference if Derek Jeter hadn't been the hitter. Or if the Orioles were playing anyone other than the Yanks.
Honestly, the imperfect game call notwithstanding, the Adam Rosales call is the most glaring to me because it was AFTER replay had been instituted and the clowns in NY still got it wrong despite the obvious change of angle and direction on the fence above the HR line on the wall.
See thats the difference. The first year or two of instant replay they didnt have that extra official in New York, it was the crew chief's final decision.
Looked like Angel Hernandez still couldn’t see it even in slo mo. 😂
@@jbosc7382 real shocker there, angel hernandez being blind
Another big one is Twins vs Yankees at Yankees where Mauer hit a slicing ball down the left field line, the fielder touched it fair, it landed fair, bounced over the fence for a ground rule double, but was called a foul ball.
That was absolutely brutal. And it was made by the left field umpire. The guy had ONE call all night and blew it.
i saw that one live and I saw he touched it live. Because it he was in bounds, this is an easy call even if the ump was shielded to where the ball landed. Im starting to wonder if some of these umps are cheating on their eye exams. If I could catch it from my couch, I think an ump right there would have no problem at all to see that.
I’m a Yankees fan and I saw that game. We definitely got a break.
@@mpup54 They are cheating for their bets
@Lighthouse in the Storm seriously. You need to have THAT explained to you? crikey!!
The Atlanta Braves were involved in half of these calls...
All Braves games were televised back then. Now, every game is on cable somewhere...
1 went Braves way?
I simply didn't (and still don't) understand why one of the other umpires didn't discreetly tell Jim Joyce, "Uh, Jim... he was out by a full step and it's a perfect game. We need to correct the call now."
Umpires don't change their calls without some kind of official review. It just does not happen, ever. He knew it was wrong but was unwilling to set a precedent.
@@Ambrosia-vw1gy Wrong. I've seen it on a few occasions. Especially when an ump is obscured from a tag at certain angles.
@@Ambrosia-vw1gyno, umpires do revert their call sometimes. The simple reason they didn’t here is, the other umpires just couldn’t tell. On camera from different angles it’s obvious, especially since we can slow it down. Only seeing it in real time once makes it much more difficult to tell. If they can’t say for sure, then they’ll refer to the opinion of the closest ump with the best view.
If they conferences and didn’t change it then Jim Joyce got hung out to dry by his crew. But if I remember right there was no conference. Can’t believe Leyland didn’t get him to ask for help.
Game 6 of the 1985 World's Series. I remember Don Denkinger's blown call at first base. In an SI interview, the following Spring he admitted blowing the call. It still hurts 40 years on to see that play.
The lack of accountability held to umpires is astounding
TBF, Jim Joyce handled that imperfect game decision well.
Comparable only to the Republican party
@@casmatt99 Lolol so true
You have no idea how they are or aren’t held to account. In fact, they are. Incorrect calls, especially the misapplication of a rule, impacts their playoff assignments and their job in MLB.
They’re human. They’re going to make errors in judgment on occasion. Players make errors, pitchers throw wild pitches, catchers allow passed balls from time to time. Managers make substitution mistakes and strategic errors all the time. Do you expect them to lose their jobs for an occasional mistake? Let’s just replace them with computers too.
Silent Crow: What are you basing that assertion on? You DO realize that MLB umpires are evaluated, every call, every game by external auditors. And playoff assignments with a sizable salary bump are merit based with one of the contributing considerations being in-season performance.
Miggie was so excited and disappointed in one second. They were all bad calls. Galarraga got robbed a perfect game. Got a new subscriber. Was fun to watch. Great video
No, they weren't all bad calls. #9 was indisputably a correct call and #6 is correct because there's no proof it wasn't. I haven't looked that closely at the other calls.
@@hbk314 you are blind my dude.
@@dstedy How so?
@@hbk314 Bro you’ve clearly never read a rule book or been an umpire. #9 is indisputably an INCORRECT call. It’s called the INFIELD fly rule. That ball was in left field. The infield fly is there to prevent cheap double plays, and there’s no way he could thrown it to third and then to second before the runner from first got there (runners from first run halfway to the base in that situation). It was clearly not in the infield, and the worst that could’ve happened was a force out at 3rd. The offense was robbed of a base runner and an out.
#6 isn’t even close. You can clearly see his glove swipe up the runner as he slides. When the throw beats the runner by that much, you don’t call the runner safe unless he obviously missed the tag, which is not the case here.
Not trying to be a dick, but as someone who’s umpired for 5 years now, I don’t know how you can possibly say these were the correct calls. If there was any argument to be made about them being correct, they wouldn’t be on top 10 worst calls especially since neither occurred in a high-stakes postseason game. They’re on here because they’re painfully obvious blown calls.
@@brendonbuffaloe8830 Excellent job embarrassing yourself. I've both umpired and read the rulebook. You absolutely need to brush up on the rules if you plan on continuing to umpire.
It's hilarious that you tell me to read the rulebook immediately before claiming it has to be in the infield to be called an Infield Fly, which is obviously false. I'll wait for an actual, rulebook-supported reason as to why you believe that call was incorrect.
As for the swipe tag in extras, I don't recall ever seeing a video showing a clear tag. Jerry Meals had an angle that's better than any replay has. It's a correct call absent conclusive evidence otherwise. Blame the catcher for doing a terrible job.
Also, just for the record, "the ball beat him" isn't a legitimate argument, and I hope you never say that to someone arguing a call. At the levels the vast majority of umpires work (especially solo or two-man), we may have to officiate that way because we can't be everywhere at once. MLB, especially in the era of instant replay, cannot officiate the same way.
I don't think Atlanta fans give a rip about what the commentator thinks embarrasses them. What's embarrassing is the umps call and the commentator's quickness in blaming the fans instead of focusing on the call.
The thing that was bad about Galarraga’s imperfect game was the umpire who called him safe. The very next game was in tears, addressing to the crowd and telling Galarraga how sorry he was that he ruined history, and I just couldn’t help myself, but feeling so bad for the umpire he made a bad car, and he knew that he did when he saw it again
It just goes to show you how vile these fans are. for one simple mistake they tormented a man into a psychological breakdown.
I remember watching that Marlins-Braves playoff game. Umpire Gregg's strike zone was as wide as the Grand Canyon that day!!
Eric Gregg, rest his soul, was an awful home plate umpire. I remember him calling out Andrew Jones in the WS (against the Yankees) on a 3-2 slider that was at least 2 feet wide. "My strike zone," he said. His strike zone was not baseball's.
Fair return for how wide the strike zone Greg Maddox used to get with the Braves. He was so good no reason to give him calls off of both side of the plate when the TV box would show it consistently off the left and ride sides and players getting punched out.
@@amywolfe6100 That's very true!! Good comment.
Atlanta got a few rough calls
More than a few. Always against the Braves
Alec bohm still to this day has never touched home
@@braves4life25 I heard Soler’s homer last year in Houston hasn’t landed yet.
@Lighthouse in the Storm Mario 64 !?
Haven't seen an Angel Hernandez highlight film in a while. looking forward to watching
Good on Jim Joyce for admitting his mistake and apologizing to Galarraga. If Angel Hernandez was the umpire in that game he probably would’ve tossed Galarraga for grinning after the call.
I think I saw angel in this video. Was about to bet that scumbag would turn up in at least 3 of the worst calls in MLB history lol
Can we get an honerable mention for the play in the 2021 World Series game 6, where brantley stepped on frieds foot, completely missed the bag, and was called safe?
Fried pitched mad the rest of that start
Mad max was awakened
From what I remember, that was the right call by the rulebook, and that's why Atlanta didn't challenge that call. If you go back, Walt Weiss was on the phone to check with the other coaches to see if they should challenge, and you can see Snitker look over, then signal play on to the umpires. I think the rule was that since Brantley didn't make a turn towards second, that even though he missed the bag, going past it made him safe. So if anything, it's a cruddy rule, but called correctly. And Fried went sicko mode after that anyway, so it all worked out haha
In that particular instance, the field has to make an appeal to the umpire on the field by either tagging the runner or the base.
@@lhsbandfreak11 Fried’s foot touched the bag though. It was clear as day
It's amazing how many involved the Braves on either side. Sure that 19th inning was stupid, but the Bravos (especially in the 90's) seemed to get royally screwed on a nightly basis.
The Gregg strike zone and the Herbek call especially.
The 19th inning call was a lot closer than most people may think at first
@@zachb1344 forget close, it was the right call
They still get screwed frequently, especially on replay calls. A recent series for them against the Mets saw them get multiple calls overturned in outright ridiculous ways.
@@2005StangMan No question never does the Braves any good to challenge especially when they are in the right, Has to be as blatant as the Joyce call for them to get it. I can't remember the circumstance but there was a call that went the Braves way in the last couple weeks and Jeff Francoeur was laughing on the broadcast because he didn't expect the call to break for the Braves.
Wasn't in MLB, but shout out to the umpires from the Mexican league that got a checked swing call wrong so badly that not only were they suspended, the two umpires *not* involved in it were given probation for not overruling it.
On that should-have-been-last-out-of-perfect-game, Cabrera actually made a great play - hard to his right, backhand, turned his body, got off a strong, accurate throw, leading his pitcher to the bag. If Joyce had called it right, this might have been the best fielding play ever made to make the last out of a PG.
Robin Yount might disagree.
At least Jim Joyce acknowledged his mistake. Doesn’t make the call any better but still.
rare to have an umpire actually aknowledge that he made a mistake.
Yeah, they're human and their job is really hard. It's easy to understand a mistake. It's the arrogance and infallibility they display that is so maddening.
He still deserves nothing but hate. Unless it's blatant, you call the runner out in that case. Even if it were a bang bang play you call the runner out
I recall the umpire in the Red Sox vs Yankees phantom tag game saying he blew the call after the game and felt terrible about it. The Yankees had a similar break a previous game in that series that the umpire also missed the call. Sox fans were understandably upset and started throwing things on the filed after that phantom tag because it was the second one of the series late in the game. Yankees won that series in 5 games but it was a much closer series than that implies, thanks in part to those blown calls.
@@kevinconnor6035 I think to be an official you have to have the “I made the right call” mentality no matter what (unless it’s a huge mistake like these). You can’t really afford to second guess yourself on close plays when one side is going to cry about the call either way. Hell half the time on replays where you slow it down frame by frame the call could still go either way
That 1985 World Series one hurts
That should have been number 1 worst call! Cost a world championship - more important than a perfect game.
@@calhounhills860 I was about ready to look up what effect that had. It turned out good for Dad, though. (He's a Royals fan.)
I know, if they had instant replay Frank White would have been safe stealing second in the 4th inning. It would have changed the entire game.
@@calhounhills860 But it didn't cost the Cardinals a World Series. There was no guarantee they would've scored a run, and maybe they should've showed up to Game 7.
@@1912RamblerFan01 I agree, Cardinal fans love to say this cost them the title, but they seem to forgot they laid down and rolled over in game 7. As aggravating as they are, bad calls are part of the game, and these guys are supposed to be pros. They should be able to get over it and come out fighting the next time, which they did not do. I never liked the 85 Cardinals, thought they were mostly a bunch of whiners, with a few exceptions. Yes, they got ripped off in that call, but instead of crying, though should have manned up and acted like champions.
The fact that the perfect game missed call was the last out of the game I never understood why MLB couldn't have said after the game that the ump was wrong, and corrected the box score.
Then they would have had to do that with a million other missed calls.
@@angeleyes9951- They do. Major League Baseball often changes hits to errors and vice versa after games. In this instance, though, they would never change the actual outcome of a safe or out call.
@@chili015 Corrections to box scores is a different animal to retroactively changing results. If you do it for Joyce, you give a thousand guys a reason to complain at the MLB on the precedent alone. They simply can't.
If the 'other guys' can't see the difference here, "F" 'em.@@joshschmidt3841
In that moment Galarraga showed us all what class and grace and temperance looks like. Joyce in return displayed great humility and genuine accountability and atonement.
It was a transcendent outcome greater than a perfect game that we were all too blind with anger to see at the time.
It's sad that this will be Jim Joyce's legacy. He was actually a really good umpire. And he was sick when he saw the replay.
So what if he was in tears. That’s more than a mistake. Umpires can blow close calls but……..
@@marthakrumboltz2710 Only one person can make that judgment IMO, and that's Galarraga himself. He forgave him literally with open arms - a hug.
@@marthakrumboltz2710 Stop it, its not more than a mistake. But he should of given it to the pitcher in that situation tho.
That's on the fans for never letting this go lol.
Anyone who has ever umpired knows how hard a bang bang play can be. It was a bad call but you've eventually gotta let these go.
So he got a better view than he did standing right by first base ?
bruhh the braves got violated so much
Don't worry, we still do!
Livan Hernandez struck out 15 when in reality it should have been about 6 and the umps helped rob the braves on a world series berth. how that is only number 7 is beyond me. It wasn't one bad call, it was like 20......in ONE game.
I agree that ump was terrible 🤣
Not to mention dumbass Costas never said anything on how bad the calls were
If angel Hernandez is out there, you know it’s gonna be a messed up game
NEVER, EVER bet on a game if that POS is even in the CITY, let alone on the field.
You know things are really bad when the umps have instant replay and they still make terrible calls.
That’s Angel Hernandez for ya ! 😂😂😂
He’s so stupid he got that A’s Homer wrong with video proof . Dude shouldn’t even be allowed to sell hot dogs at a game let alone ump it !
Get a clue. The umpires don't make the rulings on reviews. Some schmuck in New York makes the final ruling.
@@garygemmell3488 The replay officials in New York are umpires, you schmuck.
@@garygemmell3488 On the A's home run play the umpires on the field were the ones doing the video review. They didn't have central replay review yet.
Today in 2022 Angel Hernandez still says he made the right call it was only a double.
As a life long Braves fan, all of these hurt me to my core…
same
and there some that didn't make the list like the 96 world series where many of bad calls happened.
lol braves made 4 of these, in which 3 were against the braves
I remember Sam Holbrook calling that infield fly. The reason fans were so pissed was because we had momentum going, it was the single elimination game for the NL Wildcard, and it was also Chipper Jones' last game of his career. I thought the fans were absolutely in their right to show their frustration the way they did. So long as no one got hurt.
@@rickyzoller
When St. Louis got robbed in 85 you didn't see any of that.
Some fans have class.
seems that MLB did not want Atlanta to win back in the 90s. The umps helped the Twins win the 1991 world series, and helped the Yankees win the 96 world series several times.
@@breadandcircuses8127 the umps gifted the Yankees a home run in game 1 of the ALCS. it was actually fan interference which should have been ruled a double. In Game 4 of the world series, one of the umpires got in the way of a Braves player trying to catch a routine pop fly. That extended the inning and allowed the Yankees to get 2 free runs.
Damn these are insane clips of blown calls, thanks for putting it all together
5:09 This is the worst call of them all right here. That was not a home run. I watched it live and thought the same then. This kid was treated like a rock star after this. Meanwhile poor Steve Bartman received death threats for his interference.
Obviously, because Maier's blunder helped his team, while Bartman hurt his team.
What do you expect from Yankee fans? And Rich Garcia has been involved in controversy involving the Yankees before, so no surprise.
Nevertheless as much as I love my Orioles the better team won, period. I have to be objective az either way they would have found a way to beat us as they usually did in those days, plus Benitez was horrible, so yeah...
It's really a shame the cubs won a world series after what the Cubs fans did to that Bartman guy. How about your shitty club get's an out after that play? Nah, we'll just blame that guy cuz we're
pos cub fans. Weak fuckers.
Bartman didn't interfere
Bartman didn’t actually do anything. He was just the scapegoat. You wanna blame someone? Blame the actual Cubs team that committed a folly of errors: leaving in a tired pitcher, Gonzalez’s dropped double play, Prior’s wild pitch, Farnsworth failing to get the necessary 2 outs. Bartman did not lose this game for the Cubs, the Cubs lost it themselves. What made the situation go the way it did was the Fox broadcast focusing on the Bartman incident and not the comedy of errors on the field.
9:24
I am a life-long Cleveland Indians fan and I'm sorry, but the "Imperfect Game" will go down in the annals of WORST of the worst.
We were all pulling hard to see something so awesome as a perfect game, and Galerraga was robbed of it.
There is absolutely no rhyme or reason as to how the runner was safe!
But...I have to give umpire Jim Joyce phenomenal kudos because the very next game, he went up to Galarraga before the match and talked with him, shook hands and pat his shoulder. There were tears in his eyes.
Galarraga after the "imperfect game" pretty much laughed it off. There was no bad blood, no insults, no complaints. His sportsmanship was incredible and uplifting.
And...I guess that's how you play sports, folks.
It's called "sportsmanship" for a reason.
Maybe we can all learn from that. :D
And here at WYCSports we are sorry that you are a life-long Cleveland fan 😀- how did the Lofton, Baerga, Thome, Ramirez, Belle team not win?????? That lineup was insane!!!
@@WYCSports Because our bullpen closers stank to high heaven. =P
@@WYCSports Because Jose Mesa was paid off.
Its a phenom of epic proportions to pitch one, its so rare that any pitcher goes beyond the 6th, or gets a ton of 2 pitch outs.
@@WYCSports It was definitely Game 3 of the 1997 World Series that pretty much did it for me. How we let Florida get 14 runs - on our home turf. it just didn't make sense. We had come back to tie the series at 1. Coming home now with a chance to win the series at home. That 14-11 loss... that was just crazy. Allowing Florida SEVEN runs in the 9th...? I'll never understand that.
Where is Johan Santanas " no hitter" ? Beltran hit a ball 2 feet fair and it was called foul.
I'd wager that Gallaraga is actually much more famous for not getting the perfect game than if Joyce had called it accurately.
I saw a virtually identical play to the Galarraga travesty in a minor league game once. This was for a regular old no-hitter though, and the play was a routine grounder to 2B. This was in 1992 and the pitcher's name was Rodney Steph. I'm not still bitter about this or anything.
Rodney Steph deserves to be in the history books. An absolute legend in our own time.
Cardinals fan here. I even thought the infield fly ruling was brutal
Watching it live I thought it was brutal too. Looking back, I realize it’s technically the right call(infield fly is called once an infielder is beginning to camp underneath a pop fly). Though incredibly painful
actually, I've seen fielders drop those intentionally and get double plays. It's kind of 50-50 there. It looked like he was going to catch it easily.
@@derikr3744 how can that be when he was halfway into the Outfield?
As a brave fan I thought the call at first base in the Cardinals Royals World Series was a bad call too. At that time I was for the Cardinals because they were the national league team. I think St Louis was robbed of That World Series.
@@donaldmackerer9032 The rule specifies a pop fly or fly ball that can be caught by an infielder, it doesn’t need to be on the infield dirt/grass. It also says “with ordinary effort” which is at the umps discretion. I wouldn’t call it simply because of how far he has to go out for the ball, but it was called because he was able to drift and begin to camp underneath the ball.
He then gave up on it🤦🏻♂️
The restraint by gallaraga to not launch that ball at about 89 MPH at Jim’s head is impressive.
You've got to add Wilmer Flores being called out in the 9th inning of game 7of the playoffs against the Dodgers in 2021 for the most obvious checked swing I've ever seen.
That wasn’t even close to the top 1,000,000 most egregious calls ever made
The fact that the umps reviewed the Rosales hr and still got it horribly wrong still happens
I've always been confused by the color commentator in that clip. "It hits the rail, it goes up, then comes down" ? It's like he's describing the replay being reversed and advanced (so as to convincingly show the ball hitting the railing behind the wall).
Look who the crew chief was that night.
@@drewizkoollikeicecre This was in the infancy of Instant Replay in baseball. They only had a small TV screen installed in a hallway to look at it, so they ended up sticking with the call on the field. With today's centralized replay, that's a home run 100 times out of 100.
@@hbk314 it could have been a high resolution 55" monitor and Angel Hernandez would still get it wrong.
@@mikeprevost8650 Moron.
Perhaps one of these days, MLB will do the right thing and reverse the blown call by Jim Joyce and recognize the perfect game thrown by Galarraga.
TBH.. His "Im"perfect game is more talked about than basically any other perfect game, so...
@@Streaming_Music That's fine but 100 years from now, will they still be talking about it if it's not in the official record? They took a little bit of history away from that pitcher.
I agree with that, but then the following plate appearance would have to be excised from the records. Which can be done, but it adds to the messiness of the situation.
@@staringatthesun861 Official records, statistics, and standards are never written in stone and have been severely compromised in this century alone--especially in the aughts during the height of the Steroid Era. Also, long-standing postseason records will inevitably be eclipsed because more teams will be in the postseason, etc. Think of all the games that have been played in the modern era, and only 21 perfect games have been pitched...That blown call would have been overturned in a second under today's instant replay rules. Baseball needs to erase this mistake. I don't know anyone who would be against it.
They should include an "honorable mention" in the HOF display regarding perfect games. Guarantee that it will not be forgotten by future generations.
The Denkinger call at first in the ‘85 Series is the most profound I have ever witnessed.
I was in the Air Force . My cardinals had that World Series . I heard Don Derkinger got death threats . He lived in Milwaukee .
I was 10 living in Los Angeles and that call made me realize that life wasn’t fair, that fair had no meaning in the world, and that life will just go on. I was shattered.😕
2:53 "...disappointing from the fans at Turner field..." No, it's disappointing that the umpire made the wrong call. If you don't want to make fans angry, get the call right.
4:21 Nice job of including Eric Gregg's shameful performance.
Top marks, excellent video.
I saw that Galaraga play live, and it's still unbelievable that that runner was called safe! So glad there's replay now...
I literally can't watch that Galaraga play. I always turn away whenever the play comes on. I'm not even a Tigers fan but to get screwed out of a perfect game makes me sick.
What's funny is that even with replay, the A's got screwed out of a home run call in Cleveland. Thankfully the replays have gotten a lot better over the years, and there's less past their prime umpires in the league
You would think an umpire would have it in his head that if the play was even remotely close that he'd call it out.
@@Rockhound6165 yeah, like you are in Detroit, everyone wants the perfect game, it would be sort of acceptable to err on the side of the perfect game.
one of hte earlier clips showed a home run that was still not called correct with replay. MLB has a very difficult time using replay correctly.
The single worst call I have ever seen came the year the Posey rule was implemented. A runner attempting to score was thrown out by such a wide margin that he came to a complete stop. The catcher walked over and tagged the runner on the chest. The umpire ruled that the runner was safe because the catcher had not given the runner a path to the plate.
Jim Joyce was at least a real one about his mistake. The wall of silence we get from umps otherwise hurts the game
I watched a whole separate video digging into Jim Joyce/Galaraga, to say it was devastating is an understatement, both teams were royally pissed off, Jim Joyce almost got jumped by the crowd so many times when leaving, that game is just a black spot on MLB
I remember the Kent Hrbek lifting Gant off the plate. That was a great series despite the bad call.
Yeah it was accepted Metropolitan stadium was playing games with the air conditioning. They even admitted it later on. The twins got away with cheating that whole series.
a few of them (the Jeffery Maier fan interference), the Kansas City - St Louis call at first, the perfect game, were not even close. How the umpires blew such obvious calls, I have no idea. Even live speed these were all obvious, and watching the replays, even more so. It is easy to second guess the umpires in all sports on 'close' calls, but some of the calls are not even close.
The Jeffery Maier one was especially confusing because it was a playoff game and there were umpires stationed in the outfield whose only job was get home run/fan interference calls right. He had ONE JOB
It's called taking a payoff.
The announcers in the cheatin' jeff game are looking at the monitor as WE were, and STILL didn't see anything right away. Prob'ly half-guzzled. Remember when pompous Woody Hayes punched that kid after a turnover. EVERYBODY saw the buffoon hitting the kid, but only after 5-6 replays, they were forced to admit the senile old fart PUNCHED the player.
You know it's bad when the pitcher is surprised it was called a strike
That call at the plate for that pirates & braves game was insane 😂😂😂
As a pirates fan it makes me upset. Also I think the umpire wanted to just go home but it’s still BS
@@elimarcus8627foolish baseball has a good vid on it and how there was no camera at the right angle or high enough quality to see if it was a tag, and honestly I think the ump made the right call
They could do a whole highlight reel of Fat Forrest Greg calling Maddux off the plate pitches strikes.
I used to watch those games and the announcer would say that Maddux painted the corner. What was he using? 40 coats of paint?
Funny I just wrote that in response to the Braves fans moaning. Maddux used to get calls way off both sides of the plate. The guy was so good he didn't need that kind of help. Let alone the Stan Belinda no call after he threw a ball right down the middle of the plate in the 92 NLCS. Nah I'm not a bitter Pirate fan!!
I’m just gonna take a wild guess and say a majority of all these calls were from Angel Hernandez
Often a safe assumption 🤣🤣
I thought this was going to be an Angel Hernandez career retrospective when I saw the video title.
I think he ruled on the "ground-rule" double. I do believe he blew another replayed HR call, too.
I can't believe that none of Joe West's many terrible calls didn't make this list!
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You can't tell me a regular season game that ended with the same outcome, minus a personal achievement is worse than a 1st out in the 9th inning of a world series clinching game that cascaded out of control with the change in momentum.
Good one. Put that “ad” smack dab over the perfect game ply so we can’t see it. Genius.
Man, when I heard about Minor League baseball using a robo strike zone, I was so against it.
After this video, I am kinda in favor of it now.
Whats the argument against it?
It's pretty inaccurate though, from what I've seen. Basing calls on where the center of the ball is, not the edge, so many corner and edge strikes are just registering as balls.
@@quigonkenny uh yeah thats the point. You cant get an umpire screwing the game up by having the edge calls be different every batter and every game. You should see an average game and know a robot cannot be worse than a human. Seriously you think a human eye watching a ball come by at 90-100 mph can tell if it is in the zone or not? Thats like the police just guessing your speed and pulling you over instead of using a radar gun. "uh sir i think you were going over the speed limit, just guessing by my own judgement here."
@@easytiger35 ABS missed 48 pitches in a AAA game this season. The MLB average is 94% accuracy on balls and strikes
@@zgaviation6481 I doubt that is accurate. Besides its the varying zones that end up deciding games sometimes. One missed call and you change the course of a game or series even.The idea is to have it consistent. The technology will progress to be much better than a human approximation.
Wow Braves got screwed a lot but at least they gave us the Pirates game win lol
Good old challenges and video replays!
Hrbek…..haunting. That call and Lonnie’s baserunning blunder will haunt me my last days. It’s a grudge I can’t shake.
I like how they called the Infield Fly rule in that Cards vs Braves game, while the defender missed the ball in the OUTFIELD.
Well said....yes, the SS missed the needed location. No wonder "ordinary effort" has been so heavily debated for an ongoing decade.
Show us where in the rule it says an infield fly cannot be in the outfield. You should learn the rule.
@@alanhess9306
Thats the point. Its a stupid, poorly written rule that has a clear, intuitive way it SHOULD work to anyone with at least 3 brain cells to rub together, it SHOULD say:
Infielders foot touches outfield grass while in pursuit of the ball means its not an infield fly......I mean duh.........simple sensible rule everyone can immediately see and understand. Why does it not work like that? Because baseball? Yea great argument. I mean now we are out here giving free goddamn doubles in extra innings now so if we can mess up the game like that then surely we can fix the infield fly rule.
Ill be here all week. Tell the commissioner Im free any time after 10 AM. I can solve all sorts of these stupid baseball problems practically in my sleep.
@@danr154 The only problem with the infield fly rule is that it is called the infield fly rule, so people who don't understand the rule think the ball must come down in the infield .
The rule clearly states that if the ball COULD be caught by an infielder, the rule is in effect. There is nothing wrong with the rule, it does not need changing.
@@alanhess9306 there's a WHOLE lot of sac fly hits that COULD be caught be an infielder, especially with shifts in play. Would break the game if your interpretation of the rule is carried out objectively.
I basically watched this entire video to make sure that the Galarraga imperfect game was #1. I was not disappointed.
you could have scrolled forward lmao
The imperfect game. Man, that'd be hard to keep self control. That pitcher is a helluva man
It’s amazing how many calls went the Yankees way from the late 90’s to 2010. I would like to see those umpire bank accounts from that era.
How many calls went the Yankees way?
@@christianjmj6460 All of them. That was a period when the Yankees literally got all of the calls in every game.
@@TimCarter All of them? Other teams got no calls at all?
@@christianjmj6460 Not when they played the Yankees. The umps were on their payroll, I guess.
@@TimCarter The only one of any significance that I recall is the non call on what was clearly a third strike before Tino Martinez hit that grand slam in Game 1 of the 98 World Series.
As a Braves fan it does seem like the Braves get screwed a lot but they’re also on tv more than any other team back in the day.
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2009 ALCS. Napoli tags two players who are clearly OFF the bag at 3B, and the umpire rules only one out.
4:49 that one announcer that keep getting interrupted 💀
lmaoooo literally every time
Amazing how many of these were against the Braves lol
😂 I was about to say the same thing. About half involved the Bravos
Watching the World Series last night (3 Nov 2022,) the balls/strikes calls by the umpire was/were atrocious. Sure, he got the call right when the pitch is right down the middle - - - or when the ball is WAY off the plate. But the ump was missing about 40% of all the "close" calls. It may be time for "electronic" umpires.
There is absolutely no argument against replay review and robo-umps that makes sense. Humans make mistakes, it’s in our nature. Being angry about being proven wrong and having to reverse your own call is no excuse for not implementing them.
Kinda funny how the Yankees benefited from multiple of the worst calls ever
Pinstripe privilege...
Was wondering the same thing, how come none of these “worst calls” ever go against the Yankees?
not funny, its clear they buy calls
Wowww, never seen the Livan Hernandez strikezone before.. each one makes me really angry, and the batters barely care when they’re rung up on a pitch 12 inches off the plate like what. Each of those would be an ejection in today’s game.
Those were the most blatant for me. I do remember Livan being a huge thing back then because of his story escaping Cuba, and MLB really, really, really wanted to hype him up. I think that's what happened here, he "struck out" like 15 Braves.
Ancient history but in the’70 World Series, the Reds Bernie Carbo was called out at home because the catcher tagged him with his glove. Unfortunately the ball was in the catcher’s bare hand, not in the glove.
I wonder if there's any decent video footage of this
I was at that game and saw that play………from left field.
More ancient history: Joe Garagiola wrote about a bad call in the late forties or early fifties that was unusual in that Beans Reardon, the umpire, correctly called the runner "Safe!" but accidentally gave the sign for "Out!" Probably a momentary brain fade on Reardon's part, but the damage was done: "Richie, you know you're safe. Billy, you know he's safe. But 30,000 fans see my arm. Richie, you're out."
@@pepesupreme6451 A photo of Ken Burkhardt's blown call was on the cover of SI, I think.
If you watch the replay of 4:28 it’s very easy to convince yourself that the call was absolutely correct because it’s bordering on impossible to say with any degree of certainty that McHenry didn’t miss that tag
If you say it’s clear and obvious you’re either a liar or a Pirates fan
Yeah, these compilations quit including the next part of the clip that shows the missed tag.
Number 6, I saw a video that showed the call wasn’t as terrible as it seemed. In slow motion it actually looked like it’s possible he was safe
he was safe
He was, catcher missed his leg with the tag
That "outfield fly rule" against the Atlanta Braves was totally ridiculous!
The ball was easily catchable by an infielder. The rule is "by an infielder", not "in the infield". The rule should probably give umpires some discretion to decide whether it was dropped on purpose, but as the rule is written, it's a correct call.
@@Jivvi if it was so easily caught by an infielder, then why did it drop between the infielder and outfielder? It was not an obvious case of infield fly rule because that is to protect the offensive team from an infielder deliberately dropping it and turning a quick double play. That was clearly 100% not the case in this egregious "outfield" fly rule call.
@@thundersnow93 because after the infielder settled _directly_ under the ball, he misjudged the trajectory and moved away from it. The call has to be made while the ball is still in the air, and it was. And at the time, it looked like he'd just stay right where he was and make an easy catch.
You're right about the purpose of the rule, but unfortunately that isn't written into the rule. There should be something in it that allows umpires to make a judgement call about whether dropping the catch allowed a double play when there would've otherwise only been one out, and call it after the play. As it stands, they _have_ to make the call while the ball is in the air, preferably when it's at the peak of its flight.
I agree that it's egregious, but it egregious because of the way the rule is written, not because of the call. It wasn't a fair call, but it was a correct call.
@@Jivvi Nope, not directly under it... alternating shaded (8 ft wide) lanes of green confirm his pivoted position. Ball landed in next lane over. If he misjudged the trajectory that's his fault, not the opponent. Judgement call for certain. With a no-call, none of us would be commenting here.
@@markcolby9019 "under", not "in the trajectory of". The ball was still moving. If he'd kept going in the same direction instead of going back the other way, he could have caught it easily. "Ordinary effort" is the only part of the rule that's a judgement call, but it applies when the ball is at its highest point, not when it lands. It would be much better if the umpires could call it after seeing what happens if the ball drops, but they can't. It's a terrible rule, but it was a correct call.
The 2009 ALCS Game 4 trifecta belongs in here somewhere, especially Tim McClellend's horrific 3rd base call which should have been a double play instead of 1 player safe because...well, only his eyes know. He was later quoted after the game as saying "I don't believe that replay."
Honestly, people talk about Galaragga's near perfect game more than any actual perfect game. Hell, I couldn't tell you any other moment where any other pitcher had theirs. But we all remember this one!
Tom Browning.
I’m glad the MLB implemented replay because these are all such egregious calls that could’ve been easily overturned.
That Oakland A’s home run that was called a double was during the replay era, but yes, at least most of the plays here would have been overturned
Except the ones that are judgment calls.
@@ChronicIntel2 Yeah that one was ridiculous. No excuse for that one. He should’ve been fired for that.
I would argue that number 6 would not have been overturned by replay. There was no angle that showed a definitive tag.
@@howardbaxter2514 Umpire was in good position and had a better angle than any of the replay cameras. Absent evidence to the contrary, the call is correct.
As far as the Infield Fly call, it's not reviewable and wouldn't have changed anyway as it was correct.
Even as a life-long Twins fan, I gotta say that Herbeck 100% meant to pull him off the base. “Momentum” my eye… that being said there were a number of calls from the ‘87 series game 7 on both sides that were pretty shocking too
@@mattrooker5413 Well, I was 1 when that play happened, but still...
I remember watching that play. I seriously thought Ron Gant was going to kill him
Was that the 91 WS?
@@tfypt yeah. That was I believe game 6 which totally changed the trajectory of the series. Also my braves threw Charlie effing Liebrant out there in relief in 6 and 7 and he lost both games for us. after giving up the Puckett walk off in game 6, when Cox brought him back out in game 7 I was incredulous. Sure enough, blew it again.
AGREE! He helped him off the bag. I dont recall the calls of '87. Cardinals fan!
Man that is some horrible background music.
That’s why I don’t want there to be automated ball strike system, it’s entertaining to see players throw temper tantrums and coaches arguing with umps about calls.
As a Braves fan I have seen all of these and it hurts every time, but the worst on the list is the homer called a double when they had instant replay. You have video evidence of all of them, but that one you could overturn and didn't. Ok, as for the Braves ones, the Infield Fly one is awful, the safe call at home against the Pirates is laughable, but it was the 19th inning, I just think the umps wanted to go home that night. Hrbek pulling Gant's leg off the base is still hard to believe that it happened, but the Braves lost that World Series on the bases, not on that play. The one that still pisses me off the most is the phantom strike zone calls with Hernandez and Eric Gregg. I know Gregg is no longer with us, so I will be nicer than he deserves, that strike zone was unreal. He called four pitches a strike that missed the plate by a FOOT. On the other side, one Braves pitcher in the game threw three fastballs down the middle of the plate, center cut, and he called all three balls. He had to have a bet on that game, it is the only thing that makes sense.
Infield fly call and 19th inning safe call were not bad calls and don't deserve to be on this list at all.
The infield fly call was 100% correct.
@@alanhess9306 Wrong
@@drzed6647 Learn the rule little boy. 100% the correct call.
The safe at home was right. If you slow it down, he actually just misses his leg and never actually tags him. The Pirates announcer makes me laugh by saying the ball beat him by a mile. Well that means nothing if he is not tagged. The catcher whiffed on the tag.
People wonder why the Braves didn’t win more titles. This video shows three reasons why.
The ‘90s Braves benefited quite a bit from wide strike zones…
It also shows a reason why the Cardinals quite possibly didn't win another one.
@@johnbeard5952
Why they absolutely didn't win another one. To make matters worse, for game 7 denkinger was behind the plate and decided to really stick it to the Cardinals... and he did.
Exactly!!!
@@MP-dn4bs No they didn't. I remember the '97 NLCS and the calls the Marlins' pitchers were getting with pitches 10 inches off the plate. That was an absolute disgrace to baseball.
The look on haders face in the first video says it all lmao 😬😬
Thought the same lol 😂
If the term "shit-eating grin" had a wikipedoa page that would be the picture🤣
This is one of my favorite videos
How the hell can Eric Gregg call that a strike. That ball was 2 feet from the strike zone. 4:17
I recall a couple of Royals games this summer where a strike was about that far away from the strike zone. It wasn't a fluke.
Gregg was well known for a ridiculously wide strike zone.
Nothing wrong with a wide strike zone (makes the game go a little faster and it encourages players to swing more), but that zone was ridiculous. You can't be calling those pitches strikes, especially in a world series game
Which pitch that was 12 inches outside, could you be more specific?
Q: How the hell can Eric Gregg call that a strike? A: Too fat to get into position to make the right call.
2 of those - the infield fly and the one where julio lugo was safe at home - are absolutely correct
Ehhh I'm not so sure about the infield fly rule. From my knowledge it has to be in the infield or an easy play for an infielder to make. If it's not an absolute gimme then you don't call it. Next, the main reason its a bad call is that he is so far from the infield that even if he did try to get an easy double play it might have not worked.
You are 100% right about that play at home tho. He missed the tag
@@Voltage-rs7op Nope, it doesn't have to be in the infield (and many infield fly rule calls are not). It just has to be less than 2 outs, 1st & 2nd occupied (3rd can be, but doesn't have to be), and a fly that is catchable (1) by an infielder, and (2) with "ordinary effort". That play clearly was catchable, but the confusion between the infielder and the outfielder caused neither to go for it. That doesn't mean it wasn't catchable with ordinary effort... the ump made the right call. It's not only not one of the worst calls... it's not even a bad call. It's a GOOD call... people who think it's a bad call don't know the rules.
@@mikelyons6104 Nope as well to you. Correct, it can be in the outfield. On the flip side, the pursuing SS was NOT going to catch this fly on this attempt. There was no confusion (miscommunication as many have stated). Better said the wrong fielder made the greater effort to but no avail. This fly was slightly more of an outfielders catch to secure, but Holliday foolishly gave up seeing how his teammate seemed determined to try to get there. True, I wouldn't put this play under the umbrella of "worst", but instead "most controversial."
@Mike Lyons first of all your definition of infield fly was the same as mine so why even say that? Second of all the confusion between the infielder and outfielder is what makes it not an infield fly. Even then what is the shortstop supposed to do to roll the cheap double play? Let it drop and then turn around pick up the ball and turn around again. Even if he does that there is no shot its a double play. If outfielder does the same thing then it doesn't matter because its not an infielder so no infield fly. Basically your point is invalid and a big waste of typing for typing your frikn essay that doesn't even make sense