Angel Hernandez has always had a reputation for being one of the worst umpires in baseball, but Friday night may have been his worst performance yet.
Angel Hernandez has always had one of the worst reputations among MLB umpires, but Friday night, he took it to a whole new level. Hernandez, who umped his first MLB game in 1991, was behind the dish Friday night for a rematch of the 2023 ALCS between AL West rivals the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers. And it wasn't pretty.
The viral clip going around is of rookie Wyatt Langford's strikeout looking on three straight sliders that were well outside the strike zone. The called third strike missed the plate by 6.78 inches, according to the Umpire Auditor on X, formerly Twitter. Of the last 53,000 called third strikes, it was one was the farthest off the plate, according to Codify, leaving the game announcers speechless. 'Well boys, better be swinging tonight.
That was just one at-bat though. Hernandez saw 53 more outs and hundreds of other pitches. He called seven pitches strikes that were at least three inches off the plate. According to Umpire Scorecards, Hernandez made the correct strike call 91% of the time, below the league-average of 94%. He graded well in 'called ball accuracy,' and six of 150 called balls were true strikes . However, it was the pitches out of the zone he apparently couldn't figure out.
Hernandez once accused the league of 'manipulating the performance of Mr. Hernandez and other minority umpires,' which in turn has prevented more minority umpires from becoming crew chiefs. In March 2021, Hernandez lost a lawsuit against Major League Baseball that alleged racial discrimination. In the lawsuit, filed in 2017, Hernandez claimed he had been discriminated against because he had not been assigned to a World Series since 2005 and had not been made a crew chief.
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