{"id":591587,"date":"2026-02-25T06:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/591587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:25:21","slug":"mlb-umpire-has-rough-game-with-five-straight-calls-overturned-on-abs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/591587\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB umpire has rough game with five straight calls overturned on ABS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And you think you had a tough day at the office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One umpire had five calls consecutively overturned by the automated ball-strike challenge system during Tuesday\u2019s Pirates-Red Sox Grapefruit League spring training game in Fort Myers, Fla.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Home plate umpire Mitch Trzeciak must have been red in the face when a number of his calls were challenged and overturned. But he later earned himself a sarcastic cheer when one call was upheld by ABS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It started in the first inning when Pirates catcher Endy Rodriguez challenged a ball call on a pitch from Carmen Mlodzinski, and the ABS review very clearly showed the ball was a strike and went essentially right down the middle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38595922\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MLB-umpire-7.jpg\" alt=\"A baseball pitcher, catcher, and umpire on the field, with a scoreboard showing the Pirates and Red Sox are tied at 0.\" class=\"wp-image-38595922\"  \/>Mitch Trzeciak had a tough day behind the plate. Baseball Quotes, \/X<\/p>\n<p>NESN play-by-play man Tom Caron couldn\u2019t help but point out the obvious error by saying, \u201cAnd that one, kind of right down the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caron continued to point out the rough day that Trzeciak was having during the broadcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38595921\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MLB-umpire-2.jpg\" alt=\"One of the overturned calls during Tuesday's Red Sox-Pirates game.\" class=\"wp-image-38595921\"  \/>One of the overturned calls during Tuesday\u2019s Red Sox-Pirates game. Baseball Quotes, \/X<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve missed two, and one was right down the middle, and one was two inches outside, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Alright, I\u2019m having a bad day, and everybody knows it,&#8217;\u201d Caron said later on in the broadcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Trzeciak, a Triple-A umpire getting a chance to call a big league game,\u00a0had five calls that were overturned by the challenge system before the end of the third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the calls weren\u2019t the only bizarre thing to take place during Tuesday\u2019s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox outfielder Wilyer Abreu was left a bit stunned when he broke his bat on a check swing in the bottom of the fourth inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abreu did not make contact with the ball, yet a large section of his bat went flying off, leaving him holding a small piece of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates defeated the Red Sox in the exhibition game 16-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And you think you had a tough day at the office.\u00a0 One umpire had five calls consecutively overturned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,64,89,2543,185,151,1644],"class_list":["post-591587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-sports","tag-spring-training","tag-umpires"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116129846605821473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}