Followers may find it irresistible. Gamers may finally study to find it irresistible (if they don’t already). However umpires are going to hate Main League Baseball’s new ABS problem system for balls and strikes. Not less than so long as it makes them look dangerous.
That’s precisely what occurred to house plate umpire C.B. Bucknor on Saturday within the Cincinnati Reds’ 6-5 win over the Boston Pink Sox.
Umpire CB Bucknor had brutal day calling balls and strikes
Bucknor had eight completely different calls challenged on Saturday, together with a whopping six of them that had been overturned by the problem system.Â
Probably the most beautiful sequence of the sport got here within the prime of the sixth inning. It was then that Bucknor punched Cincinnati’s Eugenio Suarez out on consecutive referred to as third strikes, solely to have Suarez instantly problem each pitches and have them be overturned after evaluate.
The gang roared with approval every time.Â
