The Houston Astros Vs. Texas Rangers game was heavily one-sided on Friday, with the Rangers hanging on to win 12-8 after the Astros put up five runs in the bottom of the 7th inning.
The Rangers were up 8-1 in the 4th inning and threatening to score a lot more with the bases loaded and one out before one umpire who fans have grown progressively more disappointed with decided to remind everyone why his name gets brought up so often.
In a 2-2 count, J.P. France struck out Wyatt Langford looking with a cutter that was well off the plate and into the left-handed hitter’s batter’s box, to which Rangers announcer Dave Raymond exclaimed, “you have got to be kidding me, what in the world?!”
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The two previous pitches were very similar to this one and were well off the plate outside, and Hernandez called both of them strikes as well.
The Rangers wound up scoring four runs in the inning anyway, but they could have scored a lot more if Langford walked like he should have.
Fans of all teams have been calling for Hernandez to be fired for years now, as he continues to generate headlines seemingly every game with calls like this one.
Every call Hernandez makes like this just applies more pressure on the league to implement robotic umpires, at least for calling balls and strikes.
To make a call like this with the bases loaded is inexcusable, and Hernandez did it three times in a row.