You may have seen the pictures from a baseball game played last week by the Atlanta Braves and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The two teams went 19 innings and played for over six hours before the Braves won thanks to one of the more egregious umpiring calls in recent years.
Such bad calls are rare. Of the millions of decisions made by major league umpires in a season, only a handful are bad enough to warrant an explosion on YouTube (and an appearance on this blog; sadly MLB has taken down the video).
Still, even in the face of pretty obvious evidence, Major League Baseball does nothing to correct these horrible calls. A few years ago, MLB adopted video review for home run calls to judge whether a ball cleared the fence, but that's as far as they go. Obvious mistakes, such as the one made in Atlanta, go uncorrected. Apologies are made, but nothing is done to prevent them from recurring.
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