Umpire Roberto Ortiz missed 25 calls last night.

Umpire Roberto Ortiz missed 25 calls last night.
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  3. I am over being upset with umpires on missed strike/ball calls. It just kind of is what it is at this point and the only way to fix it is an electronic strike zone, which I believe will come sooner rather than later.

    Honestly, as long as the zone is the same for both teams, it is just part of the game at this point. Is it frustrating at times? Absolutely! But there does not seem to be any widespread push to hold the umpires accountable.

  5. It’s funny. I was watching a video of a ump missing calls and the pitcher was pretty wound up about it. So he just drilled the ump with a pitch to let the ump know how he felt

  6. An umpire just needs to be consistent. Is above the zone open or not. Are inside strikes going to be called balls? As long as teams know what they can do then it’s ‘fine’. This dude didn’t have a clue all night. He was opening and closing zones on a coin flip.

    I will say that the hitting box diagram does a disservice at some point because yokels will be mad that 2% of the ball caught the bottom corner and know it should’ve been a strike because the tv said it was. Those ones I’ve learned not to get riled up about. When shoulder height pitches are getting called strikes and sweeping curves that hold the zone the entire time and hit the bottom of the zone by a ball are called a ball, that’s just inexcusable and needs to be called out.

  7. And someone tried to say this was a “game thread” topic. It did deserve a separate post, it was next level bad for both teams.

  8. What I am wondering is how much this helped the Padres. I believe it was in the 8th where it pretty much tied the game due to that.

  11. Bring on the robot umps.

    Ortiz has always been dogshit. He is consistently up there with Angel Hernandez and CB Bucknor as the worst umpire in the bigs.

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