Search Google and social media and try for a kind word about Angel Hernandez. If you find one, please email me. I don’t expect a flood of emails anytime soon.
Hernandez’ history as a Major League Baseball umpire is dominated by …
Hernandez was back in the hot seat Monday night when three of four challenged calls he made were overturned, triggering another wave of attacks on his performance.
How Angel Hernandez is still umpiring let alone the playoffs is unreal to me. He is far the worst umpire in the league. Every year.
— Paul Lo Duca (@paulloduca16) October 9, 2018
Can I retweet this 100 times so it gets the point across!!! https://t.co/IFeU6PvaaX
— Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10) October 9, 2018
Pedro Martinez went off on umpire Angel Hernandez to open the TBS postgame:
“Angel was horrible. Don’t get me going on Angel now. Major League Baseball needs to do something about Angel. It doesn’t matter how many times he sues Major League Baseball. He’s as bad as there is. "
— Jake Seiner (@Jake_Seiner) October 9, 2018
The Commissioner's Office cannot complain about pace of game and run Angel Hernandez out there in October.
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) October 9, 2018
Angel Hernandez declined to talk postgame. MLB issued a statement through a spokesman:
“There were several very close calls at first base tonight, and we are glad that instant replay allowed the umpiring crew to achieve the proper result on all of them.”
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 9, 2018
Over the last 3 regular seasons, an Angel Hernandez call as 1B umpire went to replay review 18 times
The call was overturned 14 times (78% of time)
Overturn rate during that time is 60% – so he's not massively above the norm- but he is above it
— Mark Simon (@MarkASimonSays) October 9, 2018
The day after one of the worst displays of umpiring in playoff history, Ángel Hérnandez gets home plate for a potential Yankees-Red Sox clincher — as he's suing Major League Baseball no less. Column on his Game 3 mess and his greater place in the sport: https://t.co/pgBXZNeqls pic.twitter.com/YJucMIMo6E
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 9, 2018
This isn’t a isolated incident. Last year, Hernandez threw out then Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler (now a member of the Red Sox) after arguing a called third strike. After the game, Kinsler said:
“This has to do with changing the game. He’s changing the game. He needs to find another job. He really does. I’m not mad at him. He just needs to go away.”
Which takes us right up to first pitch of Game 4 at Yankee Stadium tonight where Angel Hernandez will be front-and-center again, behind home plate calling ball and strikes. How? How do you let an employee who has failed consistently over a long period of time, who is filing a lawsuit against his employer, work in a pivotal game of the postseason?
What say ye’ Commissioner Manfred?
