On shoddy umpiring, a phantom balk, a huge double-victory, Rain-Bo Rising, José Berríos, Julian Merryweather, Yusei Kikuchi, unionizing the minors, Kyle Bradish, and more!
I thought the exact same thing about Merryweather! Yep...let's send in a muscle injury prone guy to slip and slide all over the mound. Baseball minds work in mysterious ways - like not letting Richards pitch another inning when he hadn't gone through the order once.
I did not know it was Jeff Nelson behind the plate for that infamous KC game. Revere blew up and did some damage to a water cooler with the bat I remember. And the other batter that inning (Navarro?) got gipped as well. I think we can safely call Nelson a bad umpire. After the Gausman balk, the home plate ump was pretty generous with some of Gausman's pitches - it almost felt like payback. But then he was making poor calls the whole game as well.
It's impressive that JBJ can more than double his wRC+ in one day and still be godawful.
I thought the exact same thing about Merryweather! Yep...let's send in a muscle injury prone guy to slip and slide all over the mound. Baseball minds work in mysterious ways - like not letting Richards pitch another inning when he hadn't gone through the order once.
I did not know it was Jeff Nelson behind the plate for that infamous KC game. Revere blew up and did some damage to a water cooler with the bat I remember. And the other batter that inning (Navarro?) got gipped as well. I think we can safely call Nelson a bad umpire. After the Gausman balk, the home plate ump was pretty generous with some of Gausman's pitches - it almost felt like payback. But then he was making poor calls the whole game as well.