MLB Explosion After Strikeout

Old enough to remember the strike zone was letters to the knees. Now the pitcher has to throw it to a dinner plate.

The best part about Bo Jackson breaking the bat over his knee, was how causal he was about it.

Many of the called strikes are on the edge but what is revealing is the giant egos of the players who react like 5 year old brats

Whatever happened to protecting the plate with 2 strikes?Don't leave it up to the ump on close pitches!

Todays players act like little children. The players of old may not have agreed with a third strike call but they didn't throw a tantrum. Hank Aaron once said when he didn't agree with a third strike call he would casually say, " I think you missed that one ump". And walk away.

You replay at least 4 of these in EVERY VIDEO.

harper is such a big baby

I loved Bo Jackson as both a baseball and football player. He was mad at himself and never even looked in the direction of the umpire on that clip. That was not a tantrum directed at anybody other than himself….🤔

One thing every one of those pitches have in common….too close to take!!! 3:09

The thing that I question are the umpire’s actions on called third strikes. They are supposed to be emotionless. Their wild pumps and arm actions are really telling us that a decision has been made and anything remotely close to the zone and they’re going to do their bit. A called third strike SHOULD have no more emotional reaction than a called first strike.

Hey Rizzo. That's a strike in any at bat. Siddown

Could you find the Chad Curtis strikeout while he was a Tiger? It’s in the old Tiger Stadium, against Roger Clemens I think. Curtis used a really large bat, and when he struck out, he smashed it two-handed to the ground, breaking it apart in the process. Find that for me will ya?

I’m shocked, I tell you shocked!!! That there was no mention of Angel Hernandez behind the plate making any of those terrible called third strikes!!!

1:56. Love the ump's look! And Rizzo, yes, that was a strike. Right down the freaking pipe.

Easily the most confrontational position on the field…..umpiring behind the plate. Hundreds of calls and miss a couple and it’s on! Don’t envy any of em, but a bad one makes all of em look bad. I actually think umps get fooled by pitchers too, late breaks, slider when they expected a fast ball, knucklers, and most umps set up behind the catcher and he moves as much as a 11/2’ from side to side giving a different look on every pitch. I wouldn’t be an ump for all the tea in China, although I umped a lot of little league games…..moms are brutal!

These are all great pitches!

😮how much 'juice' does it take to snap a bat? Wanna see bat snaps from 21,22,23,2024.

Is this the 2024 graduating class of the Joe West/Angel Hernandez School of Umpiring?

They really need to remove the umpire from behind the plate and go to the electronic strike zone. Just like in Tennis. It's all like that now.

i totally understand where these batters stand....they're super competitive, they don't give up at-bats lightly esp to bad calls....further reason for pitch-track

The worst is what they do to Aaron Judge all the time. The guy can't help that he's 6'7".

All an ump should say to these players is, "You know, there are kids in the stands and you're throwing a tantrum in front of them."

Every ump has his own strike zone. Thats screwed up. They have GIANT EGOS.

Robo Umps calling balls and strikes cannot get here soon enough. A team only gets 27 outs in a regulation game, and bad calls impact 6-8 at-bats per game. It might not always be on the 3rd strike, but it can be just as at-bat changing if its the first or second called strike.

Bryce, that was a strike, haha.

All that trauma. All those pitches were strikes or too close to call. The announcers aren't helping either.

Professional tantrum. And he is a pro at it😂

Blue has to review this too. Bad calls happen.

Perfect reason why we should use the computer box to determine strikes and balls and not the flawed human eye... Angel Hernandez is the poster child of bad calls.

That's why they call it, "THE SHOW".

I think it’s the umpire’s that have changed old jocks that didn’t have it to make a team and they think they are bigger than the game

I watch baseball almost daily. Many pitch calls are just plain bad calls. Pitchers are throwing with a lot of movement {causing elbow damage}. I think a lot of the missed calls are part of the type of pitch that is thrown.

I feel like everyone that’s talking shit never actually played baseball. There is nothing more frustrating than when you’re in a slump and can’t hit the ball. You beat yourself up so much and that’s why baseball is such a mental sport. I’m not condoning showing your emotions on the field, but sometimes you just can’t help it. Everyone reaches a breaking point.

These incompetent umps have been getting away with these horrible calls for many years and they never seem to improve. MLB needs to go to electronic balls and strikes to save the integrity of the game. These umps are a complete joke.

Virtually all of those players had pretty legitimate gripes.

Bring on the robot system. It will avoid most of these.

Umpires are making a mockery out of baseball with some of these calls. What's sad is there is technology that could cure bad strike calls but don't want to use it.

I'm in shock that none of these terrible calls involved Angel Hernandez. How is that even possible? Are all umpires potentially that bad?

I wonder how many times the umps look at a replay later and say I F*&% up and made a bad call.

*ARE THESE UMPS JUST BLIND OR ARE THEY BEING PAID UNDER THE TABLE TO CALL A BALL A STRIKE??????...?????*

Funny thing is, any😂 of these could be calls by Angel Hernandez

Most of this could be avoided if they let the computer rectangle call all non-swinging ball & strikes.

So which one was the "explosion"? And how many died?

I don't understand why MLB doesn't fire the umps that make ridiculous calls. Also the managers should have the ability to throw an obviously corupt ump out of the game.

Harper and Rizz have no beef. They got beat on pitches that caught the plate. Most of the rest of those calls were pretty bad.

Umpires have too much power where they can just tossed any player.

Hothead Harper and Rizzo looked at strikes, the rest were just horrible. In Rizzo's defense, the flubbies were down 8-0, lol!

In the age of instant replays there is no reason for those screwups. And the computer even shows the strike zone.

A tree was cut down to make a baseball bat ,breaks my heart just to see it breaking like that!🤷

Go watch some old baseball games from a few decades ago. You can notice how almost no players act like this. Umpires made bad calls then too. Every year the average player gets younger in their behavior. By 2050 they will be throwing outright temper tantrums like the spoiled kids do in the checkout at the store when they don't get candy. It's pathetic, and has all but ruined the game.

Put aside these iffy calls, what really sticks in my craw is that umpire's have their own strike zones, which is absolute bullshit. There is A STRIKE ZONE!

Still more mature than football players.

We have the technology to eliminate a human calling balls and strikes, wonder why it hasn't been implemented yet. The hardest part is likely the height of the pitch relative to the knees and top of the letters. The batters would have to pose to get that dialed in. Homeplate would be surrounded by some type of beam that would project up vertically. Some people like seeing the arguments with umps, a sort of tradition in baseball. I think that tradition needs to end.

Some MLB umps are so bad at calling balls and striked accurately that many believe home plate umps will soon be replaced by robots and sensors at home plate, except for safe and out calls. Current technology has revealed for all to see that in today's MLB there are way too many bad ball/strike calls being made against both teams, by some of these over-rated, hot-dog-chomping officials like Angel "ten to twenty missed calls a game" Hernandez to former corpulent honkie MLB crew chief Joe "where'd my eyesight go?" West. The game was more fun, less controversial and took longer before the graphically displayed strike zone became the norm. Granted, plate umps have the second best view of the pitches, their eyes even with the top of the zone as the pitch is thrown. But sometimes they flat out miss calls, especially low pitches a well as outside pitches. They call balls which are strikes and call strikes that are balls. And we can see it clearly, game afte game, which is unforgivable. Also, when players chirped a bit after controversial calls in the past, most plate umpires seemed to have a thicker skin than some have nowadays. From day to dat the players have to adjust to each plate umpires unique strke zone. That's because MLB tolerates bad calls and wildly varyinstrik zones from one officia t the next, because the MLB rule book, while physically defining the strike zone (based on the creases of players' knees and halfway between the beir belts and the creases of their armpits) says the strike zone is whatever the plate umpire says it its. Of course replays have also proven how many times umpires get calls on close plays wrong at the other bases as well. Can't live with them; can live without them, I guess...

Remember kids Make sure you get a bat you can break when your pissed Great Example Pros

Gardner must be 50 by now.

Almost every one of those called strike 3's were HORRIBLE!!! Umpires are making games shorter intentionally. What other reason can there be? Are they ALL THAT BLIND?

Love it ❤

Title should read " explosion after ball called strike that caused a strikeout". 80% of them were bad calls from the home plate ref. They all need glasses and instant replay.

Players / Umps still collect their paychecks, right? So, its all good, right?

Time to implement robo umpires. Bigger fines and suspension for behavior like this.

They need to replay those strikes just like in football .there is abetter way

You get 2 strikes on you, you have to swing at just about everything.

Just love how large baseball folk need to argue with their body to let the people in bleachers see how engaged they are. Umps and Refs are humans trying to do the best they can. They don’t always succeed. If there is a real issue, then management should step in and not the players. Bad form to those watching who can be influenced by this behavior - young or old. If they wanted perfection then automate the game and remove the human element. I don’t think we’d want that.

Add these to the list of reasons to get on with the AI strike/ball system. No one to yell at then. Well, maybe Skynet.

Umps add adventures to the mundane.

There's No Doubt that Umpires can get things wrong. Even the best Umpires can get calls wrong. However, if one Umpire is constantly getting things wrong they need to be fired or go back to Umpire School!

MLB needs automated pitch analysis like they have in the minors. Just tap on your head and the call is reviewed by video. The umpiring is that bad.

How about the league doing video replay on the pitch calls !! They are doing it on base calls. 🙄

What happens if you take the umpires hat?

By far the majority of the calls are correct.

And then we wonder why young people ( and adults ) don’t know how to show respect for others.

Professional sports are losing touch to reality and what sports are all about. It's sad that cultures put so much emphasis on sports instead of appreciating what the activity is all about. As the old saying goes, "that's entertainment!"

Be polite, fellows. Young boys idolize you.

Rizzo? Sorry dude that was a strike.

Some were close, and could have gone either way. Some were horrible, but NOBODY is paying 5 cents to watch these people umpire. They want to see the players play. They should be allowed to complain.

Lisa Murkowski is a RINO.

When are the umpires going to be held accountable?

All these out-of-control players are only hurting their teams with these antics.

I have lost respect for most sports because of things like this. When a person is thrown out and they keep on arguing or acting up they should face automatic suspension with loss of pay.

This is who the kids look up to

And we wonder why kids today are so violent 😮

These people can be replaced by A.I., why hasn't it happened yet?

The bats they use today are very poor

At around 1:05 what would happen if the batter just immediately started beating the shit out of the ump? With his fists, not with the bat? Also if the catcher stayed out of it? Obviously he would be suspended for at least a year, maybe even out of mlb for good. I guess my question is would the batter face legal consequences? Sometimes I wonder if a player might think it's worth it 🤔 Thanks in advance if anyone knows 👍

Get rid of the home plate umps

umpires have made the game disgusting to watch.

Seems like they could have come up with a better way to call balls and strikes by now. Some of those strikes were actually strikes but some of them absolutely horrible and there should be a way to stop umps from throwing games. Just sayin. That one pitch was in the dirt.

You know you messed up when Rizzo yells at you.

Professional baseball players are such babies! It's time for them to grow up, at least a little bit, and stop interrupting games with temper tantrums that only demonstrate a player's stunted emotional development!

Half of these calls were strikes

why balls and strikes are not called electronically now is insane. of course, the strike zone would be called accurately... and would immediately get 25% larger.....with no outside corner.

A lot of these pitches were BALLS that were TOO CLOSE TO TAKE with 2 strikes. But not the Russell Martin one. Swing the bat. That Punto one was pretty bad. But Russo is a big f-ing baby.

Is an ump ever thrown out? Who is their authority?

More babies in this sport than any other.

The moral of the video: ❌️ *"STRIKE?!?!"* Oh come on now that's no strike! If that was a strike th-th-th-th-then you're blind as a horse's ass!

I always thought I paid to go see a baseball game when I went to the ballpark. I was wrong I paid to see the umpires act like God.

Im from Germany and dont understand the Rage😂 Whats going on there?

They have a bat in their hand already they should use it

Big babies throwing temper tantrums