Umpire Andy Fletcher (ranked 73rd of 90 umpires) called the worst game of the playoffs so far, missing 16 calls in Mets Phillies NLDS Game 1.
October 6, 2024
Of those 16 bad calls, 11 went against the Mets.
30 comments
Only 16?
I had a Phillies fan tell me on Reddit yesterday that the calls went both ways just as bad
They called some absolute bullshit on Jose inglesias. That’s when I knew the umps were with the phils. Hopefully it’s different today
How the fuck did he get a playoff gig if he sucked so bad???
He did not miss only 16. I was following on Gameday the whole game, it was closer to 25. But whatever, we still won. I just don’t know how an ump ranked 73rd in the league this year gets to playoff baseball behind the plate.
that guy belongs in prison, guy also had the audacity to get in players faces when they told him how terrible his calls were
Ranked 73rd of 90 and gets to call balls and strikes behind home plate
all the umps have been crap this postseason
Take your gripes with the Ice Cream/McFlurry machine being perpetually broken and shove em up your ass Andy.
The 2-0 Iglesias was so egregious in such a big spot
No joke, my grandmother worked at the optometrist office where Fletcher gets his glasses. That was 10 years ago. Must have gotten worse lol.
It is impressive really. MLB is a relentlessly amoral money accruing sports league with most team owners not caring about the fans…
… And yet there are so many bad umps that I would love for MLB to bust the Umpires union just to get rid of all the dead wood.
Not only did he miss calls, there were some egregious ones. Wanna know why Iglasias had a 10 pitch ab with no balls, first pitch was 3 inches off the plate and called a strike, so he decided to take the umpire out of the ab
Where’s the scorecard lol
The problem with his strike zone goes WAY beyond the bad calls. The batters had to adjust, swinging at basically anything that could be close.
The ump def fucked us more than the Phils but I wonder how much the shadows had to do with the blatant blindness.
Looking at the statcast data, this isn’t actually correct, there’s 14 bad calls and 10 went against the Mets, but this is fairly close
The real bas part is the effect those calls had and how egregious they were. Every bad call that benefited the Mets was very borderline and didn’t affect the outcome of the at bat aside from 1 to schwarber which was a close ball but resulted in a strikeout when it should’ve been a full count
But the bad calls that went the Phillies way had a huge impact on the outcome of at bats. Mets pitchers lost 3 strikeouts and Phillies batters earned 4 walks from bad calls. Mets batters lost 1 walk and earned 2 strikeouts from bad calls. Also an Iglesias at bat where a pitch that was 4 inches out of the zone in a 2-0 count was called a strike then the next pitch was a double play so it should’ve been 3-1 but instead the Phillies got 2 outs
So the Phillies netted about 7-9 free outs from the umps
he saved wheelers bacon in the fifth It would have been 1st and 2nd no out it was 2-0 to Inglesias he called the worst strike call i ever seen .Imstrad of 3-0 2-1 even AJ called him out
This is plain old bad for baseball. You can’t put that shit show in front of the country and expect people to enjoy the product.
“But the shadows were really bad.”
Why are we playing playoff games when a predictable event, like the sun crossing the sky and shining down at the right angle to make impossible shadows happen?
HISTORY!!
And yet the Mets still won, so hopefully tonight will be a bloodbath with competent umps.
Dude should lose his job. That’s how awful the officiating was. But of course the MLB will have him in many more crucial playoff games over the next decade.
Unions are OP
Might have just been me but the typical overlay of the strike zone wasn’t there.
Umpire rankings should directly determine whether they get into the playoffs.
Dude had a parlay, please be considerate
How dare he besmirch my name.
The chart doesn’t even do it justice because the Mets were swinging at anything outside because they were getting called strikes.
I’ve never seen a team get a full run solely from bad strike calls before
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Only 16?
I had a Phillies fan tell me on Reddit yesterday that the calls went both ways just as bad
They called some absolute bullshit on Jose inglesias. That’s when I knew the umps were with the phils. Hopefully it’s different today
How the fuck did he get a playoff gig if he sucked so bad???
He did not miss only 16. I was following on Gameday the whole game, it was closer to 25. But whatever, we still won. I just don’t know how an ump ranked 73rd in the league this year gets to playoff baseball behind the plate.
that guy belongs in prison, guy also had the audacity to get in players faces when they told him how terrible his calls were
Ranked 73rd of 90 and gets to call balls and strikes behind home plate
all the umps have been crap this postseason
Take your gripes with the Ice Cream/McFlurry machine being perpetually broken and shove em up your ass Andy.
The 2-0 Iglesias was so egregious in such a big spot
No joke, my grandmother worked at the optometrist office where Fletcher gets his glasses. That was 10 years ago. Must have gotten worse lol.
It is impressive really. MLB is a relentlessly amoral money accruing sports league with most team owners not caring about the fans…
… And yet there are so many bad umps that I would love for MLB to bust the Umpires union just to get rid of all the dead wood.
Not only did he miss calls, there were some egregious ones. Wanna know why Iglasias had a 10 pitch ab with no balls, first pitch was 3 inches off the plate and called a strike, so he decided to take the umpire out of the ab
Where’s the scorecard lol
The problem with his strike zone goes WAY beyond the bad calls. The batters had to adjust, swinging at basically anything that could be close.
The ump def fucked us more than the Phils but I wonder how much the shadows had to do with the blatant blindness.
Looking at the statcast data, this isn’t actually correct, there’s 14 bad calls and 10 went against the Mets, but this is fairly close
The real bas part is the effect those calls had and how egregious they were. Every bad call that benefited the Mets was very borderline and didn’t affect the outcome of the at bat aside from 1 to schwarber which was a close ball but resulted in a strikeout when it should’ve been a full count
But the bad calls that went the Phillies way had a huge impact on the outcome of at bats. Mets pitchers lost 3 strikeouts and Phillies batters earned 4 walks from bad calls. Mets batters lost 1 walk and earned 2 strikeouts from bad calls. Also an Iglesias at bat where a pitch that was 4 inches out of the zone in a 2-0 count was called a strike then the next pitch was a double play so it should’ve been 3-1 but instead the Phillies got 2 outs
So the Phillies netted about 7-9 free outs from the umps
he saved wheelers bacon in the fifth It would have been 1st and 2nd no out it was 2-0 to Inglesias he called the worst strike call i ever seen .Imstrad of 3-0 2-1 even AJ called him out
This is plain old bad for baseball. You can’t put that shit show in front of the country and expect people to enjoy the product.
“But the shadows were really bad.”
Why are we playing playoff games when a predictable event, like the sun crossing the sky and shining down at the right angle to make impossible shadows happen?
HISTORY!!
And yet the Mets still won, so hopefully tonight will be a bloodbath with competent umps.
Dude should lose his job. That’s how awful the officiating was. But of course the MLB will have him in many more crucial playoff games over the next decade.
Unions are OP
Might have just been me but the typical overlay of the strike zone wasn’t there.
Umpire rankings should directly determine whether they get into the playoffs.
Dude had a parlay, please be considerate
How dare he besmirch my name.
The chart doesn’t even do it justice because the Mets were swinging at anything outside because they were getting called strikes.
I’ve never seen a team get a full run solely from bad strike calls before