Padres Confront Umpires After Brutal Strike 3 Call on Xander Bogaerts

Padres Confront Umpires After Brutal Strike 3 Call on Xander Bogaerts

The Cubs took down the Padres’s in a winner take all game three. There was a very very controversial but not really call because it was an incorrect call. Okay, bad bad call in the ninth inning on Xander Bogarts. And forget fans and people like me who don’t have a horse in the fight, right? I’m just watching and I hate a bad call late in a game. The Padres’s players were really, really pissed. vocally pissed, giving it to the umps. Oh man, after the game when they lost. I mean, this is your season, right? You’re down three 0. You get one for me. Look how close they got to the umpires. I mean, it looked like they were trying to literally fight them. To me, that’s inappropriate. I I don’t care how much they messed crap up. Look, look at that, Todd. Father, who is that? I don’t know who that is. The first guy in there. Holy cow. You can’t do that. Listen, I’ve gotten in arguments with umpires. I I’ve gotten in a bunch of them. I’ve never I’ve never seen it like that. As they’re leaving the field, I’ve I’ve talked to Gucci one time about while they’re leaving, I said, “Hey, Gu, before you go, just please do me a favor and take a look at the strike three you called me. I know it’s over with, but it it was a mis call.” Like, that’s how I talked to him. And he’s like, “You got it. I never saw him again, but we never talked about it.” But angry, man. I I understand the anger. I understand. I would be frustrated, too. I would want to say something, too. But the game’s over with. I I you have to move on. And, you know, and I I I think in the heat of the moment, how they did, how they how a lot of the guys struggled, how they struggled runners in scoring position, um I think it all boiled after that. But yeah, I I think going down the steps didn’t help either because it looked like either DJ Reburn tripped or he’s trying to get out of there quick thinking something was going to happen. Um man, they were angry. They They were furious. They were definitely mad. But I’m gonna have to take the other side, too. You can’t bark back at him. I mean, I know you guys are a group of seven. You’re all going down a dugout together. Like, you can’t you just can’t bark back at him. And you saw everybody sees the player come over and yell at him, but my focus goes right to Was it Gucci that was behind the dish? No. Oh, no. That was DJ Rayburn. Okay. I mean, but if you look right away at DJ Rayburn, he he’s hot. I mean, he’s he’s he didn’t like what it was was yelled at him. And I’m not saying anybody should players should yell at him, but just go just go back down to the the dugout and don’t it’s just just not a good look. You see the players walk over here and then he he leans in too. DJ leans in and gives him gives him his piece and like everybody else is just like, “Okay, okay. We’re going to go. We’re going to go hold them back. Oh, players are pissed. Players are pissed. They I I haven’t seen players that pissed in, you know, caught on video. I Excuse me. My pen fell. I The game’s done. The game is done. But during the game, you want to go, but the season’s done. But listen, they they they barked at him. But then DJ, I would love I would love to know. We’ll never know. We’ll love to know what DJ said because if nobody was there, it looked like they were ready to go get him. He might have said, “Yeah, just because you didn’t effing hit.” I I don’t know. I’m speculating. I mean, I had an umpire last week in my in my travel ball game. I said, “Man, I just said, “Hey, listen. I just want both sides. Could we just be a little more consistent? That’s all.” And that’s how I talked to him like that. Don’t be mad. Your team’s not hitting. I said, “Okay, okay, valid point.” I said, “I got you. I just I I just need you to be more consistent, that’s all.” And I walked away. He got me. That was good. But but at the end of the day, they would look like they’re ready to go. rats. He like Bogarts looked like he was Oh man, like there was something. I I hope that every single San Diego Padre voted for the ABS challenge system, if not all balls and strikes to be called. I’m serious. Like I’m surprised that not every single player votes for this. I get it. Every single pitch might be too much for you, but to not vote for a challenge system in 2025, you’re absolutely nuts. Like I want to talk to forget just every every single player, right? You get so pissed in these moments. These are the moments that we’re talking about. Ninth inning, that is not a strike. Now, we’re going to fix that. Starting in 2026, we’re going to look back and be like, that doesn’t happen anymore. When it’s a blatant miss, it’s not happening. JJ Cooper wrote an article. We can show some of the information that that he put up there, our buddy from Baseball America who’s super smart talking about the game. But I’m like, anybody that doesn’t agree or or I’ve still even heard recently a former player who’s a broadcaster who’s recently out of the game say, “Well, you know, the human element of the game, but not just the human element.” He’s like, “I want the umpires to be human beings for every single pitch.” I’m like, “Every pitch? Do you go to the ballpark and you want every pitch to be called by a human, even if it’s wrong?” I’m like, “Come on.” So, uh, JJ, by the way, you know, wrote the article, would it have been called a ball or a strike by the ABS system? And there’s the pitch location from ABS. It’s a ball. I think anybody saw that with their eyeballs, too. The other point, though, is Todd Father, we see this all the time right now in regular season and postseason games. This is not like, oh my gosh, there was one call missed that decided everything. This happens all the time, every game. He actually had a pretty good game. Ratings wise, he had one bad miss in the ninth inning. Would it have led to something? Maybe. But also, the Padres’s were three for 26 with runners in scoring position. Tatisa Rise and Machado were 0 for 11 in that elimination game. There there’s both sides of the coin here. Here’s his umpire scorecard. And again, I’m not defending him because I am pro pro robots calling as many balls and strikes as possible because I’m sick of this crap. But at the same time, let’s not act like this was an outlier game and he was coming after the Padres’s, right? when I saw this cuz I I did miss a few pitches throughout the game because we were watching both games at the same time and I’m like was this like a terribly umpired game and I’m talking to other people and they’re like, “No.” And then you look at the umpire scorecard. This this wasn’t a disaster game. It was one bad pitch and they’re losing their mind. Yeah. And and I think the the the messed up part about it like Yeah, great game. Awesome. But in the ninth inning when it comes to crunch time and the other teams, you got to find a way to be the best that you can be. And you see it a lot of the times the call you got to be specific. You got to be ready. That’s the the calls that got to be made right. And he missed the biggest one of the day with nobody out. It would have been a runner on first. Not saying he would have hit the next two batters or whatever, but still the pressure would have been put on and the game would have definitely been changed. Would they have won? We don’t know. We never know that. But on a 32 count, lock in, man. Just lock in. That was the biggest pitch of the night. Yeah, but he’s trying. I I don’t think it’s that. I just think he messed up. He saw what nobody else saw. And let me ask you a follow-up question because for me, it’s a layup question. How do we fix that? How do we present that? Uh how do we prevent that from ever happening again? Well, yeah, they got the system. That’s it. That’s it. We’re about to fix it. We should have had this. We should have had this 10 years ago. I still want umpires out there, though. I still I don’t want them ever to leave. I That’s fine. But a challenge would fix this. Done. Fix it. I love it. I think they should get three challenges, but go ahead. That’s another story. No, I I don’t don’t say it should have been 10 years ago because I was on the board when they started talking about like the review system. It takes a while to find stuff that actually works. The reviews, they were going to do the exact same thing as they do in tennis, the Hawkeye for fair and foul balls, every single one. And when I saw the evidence exactly how it worked on a grass baseball field, that wasn’t going to work. So, it takes time. I I I get it. You want it like sooner than later, but it does take time. 10 years is probably too much. Okay. Five years. Well, I will say the pitch clock was ready like 12 years ago. We were doing it in the Arizona Fall League. That was ready. And that was two sides that don’t get along and bickering about other things and it leading to preventing our game from being better. That That’s a fact. Okay. That’s the only reason why that wasn’t in there sooner. I’ll dispute that to death with anybody. Don’t yell at me.

The Chicago Cubs knocked out the Padres in a winner-take-all Game 3, but all anyone is talking about is the brutal strike three call on Xander Bogaerts in the ninth inning. Foul Territory reacts to the blown call, the chaos that followed, and Padres players furiously confronting the umpires as they walked off the field. Did the umps cost San Diego their season, or did the Padres own struggles with runners in scoring position seal their fate? Plus, the crew debates how an ABS challenge system could change moments like this forever.

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