The New York Yankees don’t lose very often, but if there’s one thing that gets the entire team frustrated, it’s bad umpiring. We saw that in Sunday’s game against the Red Sox.
With the Yankees down a run in the seventh inning and Giancarlo Stanton at the plate, the Yankees slugger was called out on strikes despite all three “strikes” missing the zone. As the inning came to close on the called third strike, Stanton stood there in disbelief. And that was when Yankees manager Aaron Boone got in on the action.
The ESPN broadcast showed Boone as he was shouting from the dugout, telling home plate umpire Tripp Gibson that he had just missed six calls.
Boone was almost immediately ejected for arguing balls and strikes, but as you can see, he had reason to be upset.
According to Umpire Scorecards, Gibson missed 15 calls on the night and posted an 82 percent called-strike accuracy. That’s not going to get it done, and no wonder MLB fans understood Boone’s outburst there.
