should have been 1 out ump completely missed 2 pitches for walker's AB he should have been at 1st and paredes at 2nd with 1 out
Offense has struggled all season when Correa or Peña miss games. One isn't until '27.... the other has fresh lower leg discomfort. Bright side is the differential only suffers -1 and the AL still sucks.
Did we really lose because the ump wanted to be a prick about missing the call on Walker and looking for a technicality to pretend he couldn't use the replay?
hopefully cam was able to find something about his bat after this game that's already his 3rd multi-homerun game in his career and it's only his 2nd season i'm worried about altuve...............
i've seen it before. umps have been instructed if the batters look into the dugout after the pitch, that in itself negates the ability to challenge stupid rules but whatever umps should not have missed 2 pitches and walker should have just challenge immediately because it's the 9th and they were down by 4 runs
Looked like Walker didn't ask immediately because he assumed the walk. Count was full. His first steps were toward 1st. He did look in the dugout though. Pitch was 2" high though.
It was super obvious it was a ball AND the ump was a bit delayed ringing him up. Walker needs to be more deliberate/aware especially in that situation but **** that ump up one side and down the other. His mistake determined the outcome of the game. Nothing worse in sports than umps/refs determining who wins. Only thing I can think of that’s worse is finding out somebody was gambling a threw a game.
Don't know, didn't see it, but I will tell you that Brennan Miller is a horrible umpire. eta, here's just 1 AB, pitches 1 and 8 were called strikes
Few things. 1. Espada once again totally fumbled the ball to get guys focused building momentum and win streak. If you take a look of those 5 first innings in a loop you see guys going out of the zone again and again for K. Not lot of appetite for getting on base for hitter behind you. Another "miracle" comeback when Twins BP will throw strikes with good lead. At no point did Astros change anything. They keep swatting and might score late if pitchers come to zone. Yordan has said he does't like getting quickly to box so put Altuve leading off when Yordan is slumping. 2. Ump got it right when he did't allow Walker challenge but did terrible calls b4 that. League just wants to prevent 2minutes reviewing of that from dugout. How with that score late Walker is't thinking getting on base and challenging even close pitch is beyond me. And that was't close. Walker fking daydreaming. He might have looked to dugout like "oh fk we usually don't have challenges late...do we have one now!?". 3. Walker sit. with Espada. This is what we got every other game before ABS. Umps fking us and Espada whining like cat "can't we get along". Going there with excuse energy just confirms to Umps they can do whatever. Having players back and screaming to Ump will make Ump bit more hesitant to fk us over. They have done studies like decades in soccer. People like less to be shouted at than they like to fk over people that shouted at them. Especially in England they had cut out players going around referee after every 50/50 decision because it was like Trump meetings.....last licks will win the day. 4. The one player we can't lose because his output both ways. Pena. You all did see last season how horribly Paredes hurt himself playing with bad hamstring. It took like 6 months to get back to himself as slow AF player. I was b*tching couple/few games back about Pena being out because hamstring and Dufus El Grande putting him in tight game after sitting like 7 innings. In what colorblind fking r*tard facility backyard play that is a option for person responsible for just guiding us through week after week and 162. You all know what difference day to day and trip to IL with Astros can be. The latter can be 6 weeks especially if Astros can run the back to field rehab and treatment. Pena would probably be safer to go some private non sports doctor than let Astros handle his injury. If we fk this up and he is not fit we get way less also trading him. " Astros All-Star shortstop Jeremy Pena was out of the lineup Monday and will be headed to the 10-day injured list with a mild left calf strain, according to manager Joe Espada. “It’s going to be a minimum -- hopefully minimum -- IL stint,” Espada said following the Astros losing to Twins. “Hopefully, it won’t take him very long to get back.” " 5. Pumped how we ended Tigers. Still can't get out of my head the Diaz AB we all cried about. More I have been sitting on this more it feels it was't just bad Diaz AB. It was mental and physical quitting, Diaz clearly going "I've been catching whole game and not gonna run the bases in Detroit so I will get myself out". Other teams leaders are catchers ours is just a c*nt. Unreal that with our OF mid surplus we haven't had balls to send this clown down and trade some mid pro back up level catcher who don't cost s*it in this climate. For god sakes we got better than Diaz from retirement. But yeah. Overall way to start pkaying home and give a game back to Mariners right away. I still don't count Rangers as option winning the division.
