It's time to rip on MLB umpires again. The Twins lost to the Marlins fair and square tonight, but the game ended on a strike three call on this pitch.
Yes, the pitcher is a side-arm thrower, and so the ball moves right-to-left as it heads toward the catcher. But even the Fox Track indicator showed this pitch to be every bit that much outside.
People sure like to make meteorologists the butt of old, lame jokes about having a job where you can be wrong half the time. I find the science to be quite impressively accurate.
My joke would be about MLB umpires, who can be wrong an incredible amount of the time, get away with claiming to be accurate 98% of the time (a joke itself), and still keep their jobs.
I don't know how home plate umpire Dan Bellino kicked this call. And to have the nerve to shake his head at the batter who questioned the call afterward is laughable as well.
