Angel Hernandez makes more objectively bad calls in Yankees-Jays game

Tom Gatto

Angel Hernandez makes more objectively bad calls in Yankees-Jays game image

Umpires don't get every call right, and it's wrong to expect perfection from them. It's not wrong, however, to expect Angel Hernandez to be better than he was in the fifth inning of Tuesday's Yankees-Blue Jays game.

Hernandez's judgment was beyond poor as he tried to call balls and strikes with New York's Masahiro Tanaka on the mound. At least two of the pitches in the clip below were borderline, and two of them were just plain missed.

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To make things worse, Toronto scored all four of its runs in that frame. It held on to win 4-3.

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Uniformed personnel have long considered Hernandez a poor umpire. He reinforced that belief with his work in Toronto.

 

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.