Umpire ejections and worst calls of 2021, a breakdown compilation
What Happened
Aaron Judge steps into the batter's box in the bottom of the ninth, Yankees trailing by one. The star slugger needs to deliver a clutch hit to keep his team's playoff hopes alive. The count is 2-2 as Yankees manager Aaron Boone watches nervously from the dugout. Judge takes a swing, and the umpire emphatically calls him out on strikes. Boone sprints onto the field, livid at the call. "That's fucking horseshit!" he yells at the umpire. "The ball landed right fucking there, and you gave him second base. That is not the rule, and you fucking know it!" The umpire, Craig Allen, stands his ground, but Boone continues his tirade. "Both of you guys gotta know that this is fucking wrong!" Boone says, ripping off his hat and jersey to emphasize his point. The furious manager gets in the umpire's face, arguing passionately. Finally, Allen ejects Boone from the game. As the manager heads to the clubhouse, he turns back and says, "You're out of here! I can't deal with you!" The other umpire tries to calm the situation, explaining that Allen's belt had broken and he needed to fix it. But Boone is having none of it, continuing to shout in disbelief at the call. On the other side of the field, Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa is also arguing with the umpires after one of his players, José Abreu, was hit by a pitch. La Russa is trying to protect his star player, but the umpire ejects him as well, leading to a tense scene as the White Sox coaches restrain Abreu. These are just a few examples of the many umpire ejections and controversial calls that plagued the 2021 MLB season. Tempers flared as players, managers, and fans expressed their frustration with the officials' decisions, which often had a major impact on the outcomes of close, high-stakes games.
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and the worst plays from umpires during
the 2021 season that i did breakdowns on
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scherzer's like are you serious
really you checked me twice already okay
here you go here's my hat here's my belt
here's my pants i'm just like come on
stop stop stop stop stop stop save that
for later he just wants us to touch your
head a little bit insurgent just tells
them i got nothing
he's like what do you want here i got
nothing i got nothing i got nothing i
got nothing
i got nothing
go ahead i want to touch my hair okay
touch that's so creepy
uh
these arms have to just rub up sweaty
thinning hair
it's gross
this is disgusting
that's part of that ump's job now that's
that sucks and they want to go high and
inside with the fastball and he's been a
little wild and really wild and oh scary
scary scary karen check obviously did
not mean to do that he's all nervous
abreu is down entire crowd not having it
and oh off he goes old tony larussa
running out to help
and he doesn't help his player he says
perez get out of here prison but me what
are you mad at me and larussa says you
called the ball in didn't you
he says yeah i called the ball and i
didn't mean to hit him and he says well
he's wild
he can't be calling balls in when he's
throwing balls up high and wild all day
anyway that's what lewis said after it
now cut miguel cairo is trying to hold
the rest of the back this was kind of a
sad image to me
not sad but i was like oh wow
like
kyra's kind of looks like he's holding
him up more than holding him back he's
an old man you didn't even look at me
you didn't even [ __ ] look at me
[ __ ] you
[ __ ] um throws him out um says it's
not [ __ ] aaron
that's not it's not what happened aaron
you know when it's time and boone's just
saying [ __ ] no
not all of them i don't really know what
that means but boone's just going
[ __ ]
that's [ __ ] horseshit craig it's
horse [ __ ]
it's [ __ ] horse [ __ ] it's [ __ ]
horse [ __ ]
no you did not he's gonna say the ball
landed and you gave him second base
that is not the rule and you [ __ ]
know it both of you guys gotta know that
this is [ __ ] wrong
this is wrong
that's the rule no it's not the rule and
he's gonna tell him like the ball landed
right [ __ ] there
no tripp don't do it and he says right
[ __ ] here now he's gonna go show him
where the ball lands he's gonna take his
hat off it says right there and you
can't see my hat i'll help you out
here's my jersey it landed right there
and now i mean look at this manager
compared to this manager
right this guy you know not incredibly
that intimidating so i think tripp knows
exactly what he's doing using the hat as
a prop and the jersey as a prop and trip
i'm not mad at you about it but i'm just
saying
you know
that when you go hat off and reveal that
beautiful bald head and you go jersey
off and now you got the tight muscle
shirt on you're a different guy
anyway the hot swap belts the other ump
gives him the belt and as he's putting
his belt back on the manager says
something he says you're out of here
let's get out of here i can't deal with
you i'm dealing with my belt now the
manager is going to run back out and
this is where it gets real good because
he's just kind of like
first i can't read his lips here but i
think he's saying like what are you
doing you can't can't umpire without a
belt the whole game's got to stop
because you got a belt problem you're
like what are you doing
and now this other ump's going to try
and calm him down his belt broke what do
you want him to do he says well why'd he
throw me out of the game i don't know
what did you say huh what did you say i
don't even know
come on i'm trying to remember what it
was
it wasn't even so bad
he hits the outside with the fastball
way outside of the umpire says no you
got it strike and the batter's like oh
what
no seriously
coach
are we gonna allow this to happen are
you serious hump
wait so everyone's just gonna let this
happen
what uh okay
guess we'll do it now i did some
scientific research here the little
league world series you're not gonna
make him stay on the plate you're gonna
give him a you know usually they give
him the black they give him the black
plus a ball off the plate in the little
league world series
and that's fair and everyone accepts
that so i built a wall of balls here
that's a ball off the plate and this
pitch is way outside but because it's a
bad throw and it hits turner they'll
call him out for interference even
though he ran
as straight as you can possibly run down
the line to the back now you might be
asking well there's a runner's lane over
here shouldn't he run in there well the
base is on this side and that's what
you're gonna see his manager get really
upset about is what are you doing this
is how he ran straight to the back
what do you want him to do
umpire throws him out he says well if
you want him to run on that side then
take the goddamn base and put it there
if that's where you want him to run
really good kick now look at the look at
the joy he brought these fans look at
this lady hey look look honey look honey
yes yes yes this little kid oh my god
and then mom covers her face like oh
and the panic is settling in
and we're scared and we're just very
scared o2 pitch
diddy diddy they check and he says he
went and the first base coach is like
are you serious
no and gabe morales says yeah he he
swung
and the moment that was building gets
just taken away from everyone it's not
it's not a swing
just not a swing
he just did an attempt at that he
thought about it for a second not a
swing and this guy's like what whoa what
that's how it's all gonna end then the
ump checks the count and says what's the
count again it's two and one okay good
take
note of it
next pitch in the zone sure three you're
out he says but um that's only two
strikes
you're right son my bad damn it damn it
damn it embarrassing myself next pitch
strike three rings em up again double
ring out lars eat it
guy hates you now he's up for his next
at-bat in the game first pitch that's a
ball out no one argues next pitch oh
nice pitch brad that's a strike ump
records it as such we have a one in one
count that pitch he's going to call a
strike three euro no nope strike two
strike two strike two and this guy said
hey there's only two and this fan says
that's strike number two
two blue and me says ah [ __ ] i did it
again and that one off the batter's foot
and this one off the batter's arm and
they all point to the first base up to
try and appeal it and he says no he
didn't swing he says it's a full [ __ ]
swing
the batter's looking at him like hey man
be cool like i'm kind of in pain and
i don't know care about me a little bit
as a human and also i didn't swing it
wasn't a full [ __ ] swing
it hit my wrist before i even swung at
all
he goes off he's hurt blyer's all
[ __ ] mad
shaking his head don mattingly is going
to come take him out of the game and as
he walks off he's got some stuff he
wants to get off his chest you know
leave it all on the field he says that's
[ __ ] horse [ __ ] this um's like well
yeah i thought it might have swung but i
got to appeal it's not my call to make
i'm watching the ball i peel ball by the
way give me your glove let me check to
see if you're cheating this is what he
sees so maybe he sees the bat like like
there and and he's like
that's a swing
[ __ ] horse [ __ ]
[ __ ] terrible
even he [ __ ] said he
[ __ ] you
[ __ ] you
gives him the finger rarely seen middle
finger to the um says get out of here he
says this [ __ ] even said he
[ __ ] swung
[ __ ] you
go
but let's find out how the blue jays
really felt about it because the first
pitch and the blowout ooh right between
the numbers camera is going to toss the
bat get away from the pitch he's like
what it get away from you
pitcher's like what
no i hit you on purpose dude the whole
thing don't you remember and how cash he
comes out screaming cash gets hot he
gets hot everyone knows that you need to
throw him out of the [ __ ] game it's
that simple
how do you not run this guy for [ __ ]
sake i mean come on he's staying in the
box they called him out before the game
he's thrown at him here and the umpire
is just like hey cash cash new rule i
got to talk to the crew before we throw
him out so you let me do that and cash
like oh yeah okay cool so he goes and
talks to the crew this guy's like hey
why haven't they thrown me out yet man
that was kind of weird i threw at the
guy umpires get together joe west what
up he's like you gotta go
yeah you gotta go
yeah you're out of the game yeah i
didn't mean to throw it at him he got
away from me and joe s is like uh yeah
okay
okay well the wrong time for that to
happen with all the stuff that's going
on so
you gotta go he's like okay that makes
sense mr west thank you very much and
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