Javier — 11 outs; 10 K. Impressive.
3 ER in 3+ IP? Not so.
That inning kinda gotta away from him. A walk, a shift-aided seeing eye ground ball single, and a perfectly executed squeeze bunt scored the first run. He then found himself having to face Ohtani with two on, two out, and a base open. The pitch Ohtani hit wasn’t a bad one, jammed him up a little, and Ohtanit didn’t exactly hit it hard, but punched it just over Yuli’s head and it ran all the way to the corner to plate two runs. The walk hurt, but he also got a little snakebit.
Yep. Sounds unlucky, not bad.
What stupidity was this? Missing calls wasn’t enough of an ass move?
I noticed that Maldy had his pocket hanging out while catching at one point.
Don’t know if that was coincidence or not.
His strike 3 callout move is ridiculously ass-like.
Last night was ugly ugly.
It happens over 162.
Bucknor was beyond awful.
Not only did he make awful calls, at one point he gave the batter time AFTER the pitcher had already started his delivery. ( forget which pitcher) he suddenly threw his hands up and sprinted toward the 3B dugout just before a beautiful 96 mph fastball hit Maldy’s mitt in the top right corner of the strikezone.
If memory serves the next pitch was in the dirt - 1 ball no strikes.
It was Stanek, and he was not happy about it.
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Abreu might need a change of scenary.
When he is on, he is scary good and fun to watch but you just never know which Abreu is at the ballpark that day.
Positively abysmal on all fronts.
Bucknor is not the (only) reason the team lost this game but I am still very interested in seeing his scorecard
Speak of the devil
Fucking EIGHTY ONE PERCENT. Almost one in fucking five pitches called strikes were not in the zone. And almost one in fucking ten that were called balls were actually strikes.
The fact that this man continues to be employed at the very highest level of professional baseball should tell you everything you need to know about the Umpire’s Union.
What a fucking joke.
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At some point doesn’t there need to be some kind of way for a team to get justice?
How can there be zero accountability?
I realize in this case he was terrible for both teams but game after game the Astros are on the short stick.
How many games and how much data before the team can say “look” this is a competitive disadvantage and not fluctuations that even out because of law of averages?
Is this more of an A-Team or Equalizer job?
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone.
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And for just ice, we need to go to the gas station.
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Exactly!
Can you get just ice at Sonic? I know you can at Bucees.