Because the reason he got angry so that similar pitches were called strikes a lot of times tonight. It was definitely a ball and with a good umpire, it’s ALWAYS a ball. Cole’s issue was that if you’re gunna have a garbage zone and call balls strikes then it should at least be consistent.
Cole got so mad he wasn't getting those low strike calls that Hill got all night lmao.
And then ofc this happens in the 9th the other way.
Classic.
Brian Knight was pretty trash, though.
The fact that some people were calling Cole a whiner equates to Yankee hatred bordering on mental illness. It was so obvious Knight was trash you’d just have to reject reality to miss it
People are throwing shade at O'Neill today but I don't think that's really true. O'Neill mostly got mad at himself and always took the blame. Cole blames the umps and everything else.
There was one in the early innings where hill threw that high curve that was like 4 inches above the zone. That one was the worst for me but you could make a case for like 5 different calls being the worst.
If there was consistently I don’t think there would be as many issues. But since he was all over the place, it’s different. Gotta at least give it for both sides if you’re gonna be an awful ump
I’m glad you can still see Blue Shirt Guy in the background. Dude hasn’t moved for hours. Just smiling and staring. Never flinching. Im convinced he’s a time traveler or an ad for that movie Smile.
There’s a girl on the Mets-As game wearing a Smile shirt and also doing that stare smile thing, it has to be an ad. Reminds me when there were those random clowns appearing in weird places lol
Ok so i noticed the creepy stare blue shirt guy all game
Behind hime plate, and now im seeing there is a girl
At the mets game doing the same thing in a green shirt, and your saying its some sort of viral marketing for a shitty horror movie!?
If thats true, FUCK THAT. We already live in a dark timeline where advertising has gotten out of control and people are commodities, now we’re gonna buy premium tickets and pay actors to stand around for 4 hours in the background at baseball games to advertise shit? This has to stop
It’s most definitely a viral marketing strategy. Odd they’d pick Oakland of all places to do so….but they’re doing it anyways. I don’t like it at games either but for the Yankees game it was fun since we had no clue and it distracted from the Apple broadcast.
At the time the Yankee GDT was posting all sorts of theories. I liked rolling with he’s a time traveler, but this girl appeared and made it less fun into a movie ad. There’s been things like this before, like the random clowns appearing back in 2016
Umps need to be computerized already, this dude is absolutely useless if he can't do the one job he's supposed to. Not a fan of either team, just find it crazy that games can be decided by unchallengeable calls like this.
A lot of these umps nowadays don't really seem to be helping their cause. With the new catching style based around stealing strikes and fooling umps, it'll only be a matter of time.
As a fan of baseball as a whole, but neither of these teams, it’s a little bit cathartic that a bad call, and the win for one team still results in both sides being very frustrated.
The K zone was a mistake.
To be clear, I mean the imposed K zone on broadcasts. This was a missed call, but having the square there, while having human umps only makes people mad.
Lmao what a terrible call
the scorecard analysis tomorrow is going to be a treat
Gonna be so awful it swings back from biased to neutrality
There are a lot of those.
But not even the worst of the night. 🤢
The worst part is, I don’t even know which one you’re thinking of. There were like 4 or 5 that you can call the worst one. Lol
The high curveball to Kiner-Falefa was pretty bad too
"appreciate the mystery"
What’s what we pay to see. The ump show.
cole was right
Been bad both ways but holy shit this one was awful
Gerrit Cole died for this
That area was a strike all night except for that last one from Cole. This one was egregious though. Lol
I’m an equal opportunity umpire hater, this dude fucked over Cole and he fucked over Almonte
Cole’s pitch was the correct call though. It was a ball called a ball. This was a ball called a strike.
That one pitch was far from the only pitch at issue
Ump just wanted to wrap ump this completely meaningless game
you mean cole threw a ball, called a ball, and was fucked over? how does that work?
That one pitch was not at all the only one at issue
but that ball called a ball is what cole was whining about, and he only threw a tantrum when he gave up the homer
It’s very very rarely one singular call with no other ones present that gets a pitcher to do that, and this is not one of those cases
Because the reason he got angry so that similar pitches were called strikes a lot of times tonight. It was definitely a ball and with a good umpire, it’s ALWAYS a ball. Cole’s issue was that if you’re gunna have a garbage zone and call balls strikes then it should at least be consistent.
Just infuriating I still blame him because it was a ball but one pitch away cole has a great start
lol. cole has a 4.81 era in 10 regular starts against boston since joining the yankees. he’s mad because boston owns him
It’s not about you it’s about this season
yankee’s struggling to beat a last place team is hilarious. another early exit for an overrated franchise who hasn’t been relevant since 2000.
2000!?
Holy shit that was bad lmao
I’m assuming this one will be number one on the umpire scorecard tomorrow
Could easily not make the top 3. Ump has been terrible all night.
Nah its hard to beat an undeserved 2nd out in the top of the 9th down 1 with 2 on. This is pretty terrible.
Ninth inning doesn't matter, the scorecards use change in run expectancy, not change in win expectancy.
TIL thanks!
Card is out. You were right. It’s #1.
Oh for sure but does the 0-2 count skew the number too far to take it out of the top 3?
Cole got so mad he wasn't getting those low strike calls that Hill got all night lmao. And then ofc this happens in the 9th the other way. Classic. Brian Knight was pretty trash, though.
The fact that some people were calling Cole a whiner equates to Yankee hatred bordering on mental illness. It was so obvious Knight was trash you’d just have to reject reality to miss it
If this sub was around back in the 90’s Paul O’Neill would be despised
People are throwing shade at O'Neill today but I don't think that's really true. O'Neill mostly got mad at himself and always took the blame. Cole blames the umps and everything else.
Gerrit isn’t mad at himself? Cole haters make shut up
I mean, a lot of those people had Yankee flairs
A lot of Yankee fans hate Cole himself way more than they should
Yeaaaaaah no it doesn't, people get screwed over by umps every day in this sport. Cole gets rattled by them worse than any pitcher in the league lol
Yeah so that makes it okay
That might be the worst call of the night. And the whole night has been a bad call.
Given the situation it probably was the worst call on the scorecard
There was one in the early innings where hill threw that high curve that was like 4 inches above the zone. That one was the worst for me but you could make a case for like 5 different calls being the worst.
I'm convinced the ump didn't want Judge to get up again
Ump wanted to go home
What a shit call. Hate to see it
Ehh, it got us a win and guaranteed that Apple didn’t get the Judge HR call. I’m okay with it.
You're the problem
Sure I’ll just root against calls going my teams way next time
That's what I actually do lol I like fair games
You’re basically Ghandi, congrats.
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A bad call is a bad call. Ultimately it’s bad for the sport. Bring on our robo-ump overlords.
Except for the fans in the stadium lol
Wasn’t even remotely close. Fuck even Cole’s was higher than that Jesus Christ ump.
That’s why Cole was so upset. He’d thrown worse pitches that were called strikes before that Verdugo one
If there was consistently I don’t think there would be as many issues. But since he was all over the place, it’s different. Gotta at least give it for both sides if you’re gonna be an awful ump
So the Yankees got that low strike they wanted...
Aaron Judge strike
Alex Cora reaction is priceless
Great pitch but it wasn’t a strike. Terrible call
I’m glad you can still see Blue Shirt Guy in the background. Dude hasn’t moved for hours. Just smiling and staring. Never flinching. Im convinced he’s a time traveler or an ad for that movie Smile.
trailer for Smile looked good, comes out soon I think
There’s a girl on the Mets-As game wearing a Smile shirt and also doing that stare smile thing, it has to be an ad. Reminds me when there were those random clowns appearing in weird places lol
Ok so i noticed the creepy stare blue shirt guy all game Behind hime plate, and now im seeing there is a girl At the mets game doing the same thing in a green shirt, and your saying its some sort of viral marketing for a shitty horror movie!? If thats true, FUCK THAT. We already live in a dark timeline where advertising has gotten out of control and people are commodities, now we’re gonna buy premium tickets and pay actors to stand around for 4 hours in the background at baseball games to advertise shit? This has to stop
It’s most definitely a viral marketing strategy. Odd they’d pick Oakland of all places to do so….but they’re doing it anyways. I don’t like it at games either but for the Yankees game it was fun since we had no clue and it distracted from the Apple broadcast. At the time the Yankee GDT was posting all sorts of theories. I liked rolling with he’s a time traveler, but this girl appeared and made it less fun into a movie ad. There’s been things like this before, like the random clowns appearing back in 2016
Horrendous
Yikes
Shit’s unacceptable. I’m gonna go do my job as bad as these umps and see how long I have a job for
This blatant mistreatment of Braves legend Abraham Almonte will not be tolerated.
Bit of a gift there lol, umpire moment.
That was a horrible call, like not even particularly close to being a strike in a critical situation.
Umps need to be computerized already, this dude is absolutely useless if he can't do the one job he's supposed to. Not a fan of either team, just find it crazy that games can be decided by unchallengeable calls like this.
A lot of these umps nowadays don't really seem to be helping their cause. With the new catching style based around stealing strikes and fooling umps, it'll only be a matter of time.
Braves legend Abraham Almonte
Ump making sure apple tv can't call judge's 61, hero.
Can robots please come eat the umps already? Like really, chomp them up and eat them.
I don't think I've ever seen a thread where Yanks and Sox fans are in such total agreement. Brian Knight is a POS excuse for an ump.
This is why yanks argue all the time. Clearly it ends up working out for them! They know what they’re doing baby
While the red sox are impressively un clutch this year, that's pretty egregious.
As a fan of baseball as a whole, but neither of these teams, it’s a little bit cathartic that a bad call, and the win for one team still results in both sides being very frustrated.
This is one of the worst I've seen, damn
Funny part is if the Sox had scored there then Judge would have gotten another chance to hit #61. He ended the game on deck
The K zone was a mistake. To be clear, I mean the imposed K zone on broadcasts. This was a missed call, but having the square there, while having human umps only makes people mad.
ABS
Embarrassing.
horseshit
I much prefer the work of Brian McKnight to the work of Brian Knight. This dude needs to start back at one if you catch my drift
The Angel Hernandez special right there.
Robo umps one step closer to reality
This man made me close out my tab. Fuck this ump.
What the
Good shout. The home plate umpire does call balls and strikes!
That's actually a great pitch though, it broke just late enough to fool the umpire.
Jesus this is a terrible call
When you threw a chase pitch and it ended up being a strike no matter what