Baseball News Club Presents You Make The Call Hi, my name is Chris, I'm going to need you to subscribe and follow. Please like and comment on the video. Let's get started. One of the most frustrating themes is a player is when umpires make calls that are obviously not the right way. They can totally frustrate you, piss you off, and just get your whole team and the stadium aggravated. Now, granted, on the flip side of the coin, being an umpire, you cannot pay me to be an umpire. It is a hard job, very difficult, but let's review how difficult, how hard it is for umpires. Here is Savant, you see Replays by Team Overturn Challenge plays. Now we look at Replays by Team, who is going to have the most replays? Of course, umpires, about 11.27% followed by the Phillies, and this is 2019 stats and falls by the rays. There is no 2020 available as of right now. And then the lowest end of the coin is the Yankees and Giants, they called the least amount of insta replays. Now, overturned, and the green is the overturn, which is 44%. That's a ton of overturn, and then not overturn is 55. So you're thinking yourself, hey, umpires aren't good enough, but it's very difficult, and we'll show you some examples. But what are the number one challenge types? What do you think? What do you think? Double plays, stolen bases, strikeouts? Well, it's a trick question, strikeouts aren't reviewable, but let's see. Number one challenge play is tagged plays, just like the open-in video with Mark Simian, or Markis Simian. Tag plays are the biggest ones. These could be stolen bases, plays at home. So what is the call? The original call is safe. Now remember, in order to overturn it, there has to be... undisputable evidence, so was he safe or was he out? Now the great thing about baseball compared to other sports is we don't need a stupid rag to throw on a field like the NFL, which is the lamest stupidest thing in sports here. I'm going to throw a flag on a field to ask for its replay, just stupid. Baseball has it right. So here's the first call review. We're going to do three of them. What's he safe? From that angle, you can't tell. Now remember, umpires are doing this bang, bang, bang right on the spot. Was he safe? Can you overturn it? The original call was safe. Now let's look at it. The foot hits right there and then the glove starts coming into him, kind of like a tie base almost, but not enough evidence to overturn it. So he is safe. That is call number one. Hopefully you got that right. And then, you know, tag plays 39%. That's a lot. So let's look at another one, call review number two. This is a shot in the right field. Again, this is 2019. Play at the second. Cowhoon was he safe? Let's look at it again. You make the call was he safer was he out. The original call was safe, but let's look at a little bit closer. That's not a good angle. Let's look at a different angle. Look at his left foot. It's not even touching the bag. It's up in there. Then look at his right foot. And then as soon as the glove touches, boom. They overturned this. He was called out. But again, that's a hard play for anybody. The spot. And then finally, let's go through call review number three. Play at the plate. Dives in. Out. Original call is out. So you have to have evidence to overturn it. Was he safer out? That angle is very hard to tell. And also the catcher's block in the plate before the ball got there, which is illegal. But we won't go into that. There's another angle. That looks like he's totally safe there. But he still can't see to overturn it. And then right here, hand sneaks in. That's enough to overturn it. They make it a safe at home call. That was a really good one. But you needed that angle in order to get it. And then let's look at another one. Now, what do you think sport popular after tag plays? What do you think is next? Home runs? What do you think? It's close plays at first place. So let's look at three examples. You be the umpire. You make the call. Here's the first one. So little tray turner. You know, he's got wheels. Braggman, the first, boom. Now, original call in the field is out. Trees like, no, I was safe. Let's look at it again. Boom. And that's actually, I don't want to give him a part of the hard time, but that's pretty obvious call. I mean, he's very safe. But it's a bang, bang play. Now, let's look at call review number two, Colton Wong. Little shot up the gut. See the play at first. Boom. Now, this is one where I was talking about the plays earlier. You have to have evidence to overturn it. He said he was out. But you can't get any camera angle to overturn it, saying that Freeman wasn't on the base. It looks like he's touching the base, but you can't really tell if he's on the base or not. So they have to go with the original call, which is out, which is kind of a tough thing. If they had a better angle on this, he might have been safe. But you got to go with the original call. And then finally call review number three. Randy Rosarina, this is going to be a tight play at first. Looks like he's very safe. What's your call? What do you think it is? Safe or out? Let's look at again. Boom. He was safe. Look at that again. Just gets the foot in there. Great stretch. Great play by Randy Rosarina. He's safe. All right, let's move on to the next. What do you think the next calls are going to be? Come on. Home runs, guys. Home runs are almost 8% of time reviewed. Here's a shot to play off. Jack Peterson, the left field off of Strouseburg. Soto did a go over the wall. Well, they called it a home run. And then the umpire at home is like, no, no, no, man. You're not going anywhere. Hold on. Soto going into play goes off the fence and gets stuck in the fence. And actually at a different angle, it actually squirts through into the back of the bullpen. So back to second base. Reverse, overturn, reverse, either or. Here's call review number two. This is a shot down the left. Again, it's kind of hard to see. But if you're an up, you've got to make the play and make the call right there on the spot. Was it a home run? Was it a double? You make the call. What do you think that is? That is an obvious home run. Goes above the other line, ricochets off. Probably like a little guardrail. Overturn the call. Home run. Here's one off a CC in Boston. Going over by the pesky pool. Boom. This is originally a ground roll double. Or a double, excuse me. But the fans know. The fans are like, that's a home run, man. Yep, hits top of the wall. Bounces back in. So on Pires, reviewed a little bit more. It's kind of hard to tell from this angle, but that's a home run. Now, what do you think is going to be the last one here? Hit by pitch. This one's funny. Here's call review number one. Apparently at the dish, Morton on the hill. And because of the play, Al-Tuvay takes third. So is the foul tip? Is it hit by pitch? Swings, misses, hits is back left ankle. And you should know what this is called. This is a dead ball. So he still gets a strike. But Al-Tuvay, you go back. You go back. I got to take three times. And then here's Kershaw against Tiascar. Hernandez did it hit him. Now again, the original call was a ball. You don't see any of his clothes move or anything like that. Not enough evidence to overturn it. So now I know there's not reviewable, but Al-Pyre's camera view for hit by pitches. Now here's Rendon. He's showing Al-Pyre. I got hit right here. Was a hit by pitch or was it a strikeout? Because if he foul tips off the end of the bat and goes into the catchers glove, that's a foul tip. That's a strikeout. But you can see clearly here goes right off the top of the knuckles. That's a hit by pitch. And he already knew. He's already walking the first. He's like, I'm going the first. So hit by pitch. 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