ABS challenges now exist<\/a>. The Yankees challenged five calls on balls and strikes by Estabrook. They were right on all five.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at a few. One was an outside pitch to Jos\u00e9 Caballero that Estabrook called a strike and Caballero challenged. Instead of an erroneous 1-1 count, it went to 2-0.<\/p>\n
During the same at-bat, Estabrook called a 3-2 pitch a strike for the second out of the top of the third inning. Caballero challenged again. The pitch was low, and ABS confirmed it.<\/p>\n
Instead of walking to the dugout, Caballero took first base.<\/p>\n
By the fourth inning, both the Yankees and Estabrook were running out of patience. Estabrook called a 1-2 offering strike three on Giancarlo Stanton. Stanton challenged, and the pitch was just low. Stanton hit a single on the next pitch.<\/p>\n
But before Stanton\u2019s hit, Yankees manager Aaron Boone had words for Estabrook from the top of the dugout. Estabrook shared some words back.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t want to hear another word,\u201d he said to Boone. \u201cNot another word.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yankees didn\u2019t really need words. They ultimately challenged five Estabrook calls and got all five challenges right.<\/p>\n
The Mariners broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the ninth with a walk-off RBI single from Cal Raleigh. That pushed Seattle to 3-2 on the season while handing the Yankees (3-1) their first loss.<\/p>\n
Nobody likes to get called out in public, and nobody likes to feel like they\u2019re getting shown up. Getting repeatedly proven wrong surely can\u2019t feel good for Estabrook.<\/p>\n
But with the the stakes attached to MLB games, an umpire\u2019s feelings pale in comparison to the importance of getting things right. ABS is fresh and new. And some umpires aren\u2019t going to like it as it moves forward.<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re going to have to get used to it, as baseball has evolved to prioritize getting critical calls correct on the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home plate umpire Mike Estabrook was having a rough night during Monday\u2019s game between the New York Yankees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[1797,5,3297,14005,310,1965,620,14004,4,619,65,3235,142],"class_list":["post-654382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-aaron-boone","tag-baseball","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-estabrook","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jose-caballero","tag-mariners","tag-mike-estabrook","tag-mlb","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116323854975078380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654382","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=654382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}