CB Bucknor missed 20 calls in one game, a breakdown

I said, "CBuckner, him and the low

strike don't get along ever. Never

have." So, we had a lot of challenges.

Ellie Del Cruz in the bottom of the six

challenges this one challenge in the

pitch.

>> Raspy voice from CB. I don't know if

that's always his voice, but here we go

in the sixth inning. This is the first

challenge. It is a ball. We missed by

2.4 in. So, that's pretty decent of a

miss. Not really on the edge there. Way

off it. And that led to a walk in the

bottom of the six inning. It's a two-run

game. There's a runner on first already.

You never know. Go look at the

differences between counts like an a 10

count and 01 count. The end results are

drastic. So, every pitch really matters

in baseball. That's how it works. The

Reds have bases loaded. Runner on first,

runner on second, runner on third. Ready

to go. Geared up. Ah, Yeno Suarez. He's

coming up a lot these days, huh? He's

up. First pitch, he takes for a strike.

Just a little spinner down the middle.

Then we're going to bend it in the other

way. 0 and2. He's got to stay alive.

He's battling. He's fighting. He's

fouling balls off into the crowd. Is the

wind blowing or is the cameraman slow?

Another one on the inside. CB says ball.

Great call. And then gets him again.

Strike three. Sour says I I tap. I tap.

I challenge. I want to challenge that. I

think you got it wrong. Immediately he

heard CB winding up his go. Whoa. Down.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Yeah. Yeah.

I want to challenge it. Yes.

>> That is challenging the pitch.

>> So, we got another one. We're looking at

strike three here with the bases loaded.

No, we're not. We're looking at a ball

that missed low by 0.3 in. That's like

at least closer. Like a human can't do

that. The very next pitch, CB rings him

up again. He says, "No,

no, CB." That's twice.

>> Challenging the pitch

>> right away. The crowd is going crazy as

this comes on the jumbotron. Oh my god,

that one is outside again. It's not

strike three. It's 1.1 in off the plate.

The crowd erupted. CB's just got to

stand there and eat it as the crowd is

just going crazy at his demise. And

again, we had an instant challenge. CB

couldn't even finish his call. He's

trying to punch him out. Before he can

even do it, Suarez taps his helmet. Look

at these two punch outs. The one on the

left is the first one. CB does it very

uh emphatically. The one on the right is

the second one. And it's just a little

sadder, a little like, do I even trust

myself anymore? Bam. That's the first

one. All right. Now, watch the second

one. He never even takes his eye off

Suarez because he knows it's coming.

Like, look at the first one. He turns

his head completely and gets into it.

Oh, bam, bam, bam. And then the second

one, he is just kind of a little more

sad and he never turns his head into his

usual call. He just looks at him the

whole time and then goes, "Oh shit." All

right. So, it's a 32 pitch. This could

be gamechanging. We could break it open.

Instead, we get a ground ball, ground

out for the third out. So, it didn't

change much besides the pitch count and

the momentum in the stadium a little

bit. We go to the bottom of the seventh

inning and now Benson, another tall

player, immediately challenges the 10

pitch. CB's like, "What?" He's like,

"Yeah, I want to challenge it, please."

>> Matter's challenging the pitch.

>> Uh-oh. CB, your voice sounds raspy. I

don't know if that's how you normally

sound or not. That's a ball low. So,

it's a great challenge by Benson, who

has been getting that call to strike at

him all game. I'll show you those in a

little bit. It's almost an inch below

the zone. Now, CB's like, "This is this

isn't fun." The two pitch, that's way

below the zone. The 3 0 strike. He's

like, "No, I'm going to challenge that

one, too." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going

to challenge it. Yes, I'm challenging

it. CB's like, "It was 3. I open the

zone up." He's like, "Well, that's not

part of the game anymore. The strike

zone is the strike zone." and you can't

change it. And CB's like, "Please,

please, please." Oh my god, that one

missed low and away. Whenever they have

to do this horizontal line, that means

you done botched it bad. Two and a half

inches. It wasn't high enough, nor was

it over the plate. It missed two ways.

Oh, the little kid's just giving him a

ton behind his back, and he's just

sitting there thinking like this, I have

no control anymore. I'm supposed to have

control of the game. And now I all the

control I just feel like I where's my

control of the game gone? I need to do

something to make me feel in control of

this game again. And now Trevor Story

comes up. We're in the eighth inning of

a one-run game. There's two outs.

There's two on. Trevor Story looking to

do some damage here. Give his team the

lead. He fouls that one down the third

base line. So already in a hole. 0 and

one. Then swings and misses at that one

up top. So he's 02. Staying alive. Fouls

it back. Going going going. Wind or

camera? What do you think? Cuz the balls

are outpacing the camera now. Trevor

Story O2. Got to battle. Got to battle.

What's he looking at? Got to battle.

Stays alive. CB says, "No, you went. You

went." He doesn't ask for help. He just

says, he says, "I'm telling you, you

went all the way." Says, "Your bat went

all the way out. There's no WAY I SWUNG.

YOUR BAT WENT ALL THE WAY out there."

>> Come on. Story is pissed cuz it's the

second time CB rung him up this game

without asking for help. I'll show you

that in a second. Corora comes out and

he said in this post game, I'm you have

to check with the first base umpire.

Cora saying, so check with him. Your job

is to put calls in place, SO CHECK WITH

THEM. I HAD HIM GOING ALL the way

and he gets ejected and it's just a soft

toss and Cor's pissed. And yeah, so

here's all the other check swings in the

game where CB Buckner decided, I'll I'll

check with the first base umpire. That's

his job. I call balls and strikes. He's

the one that does that. And he went down

there a lot of times besides twice. One

on Trevor Story and another on Trevor

Story, the first one. Then that's the

second one we just watched. Later on in

the game, another and had he gone to the

first base ump to get the call. Let's

see what he's been saying. First base

sump said that this one he said no no

swing. And this one also first base sump

said no swing. And then we keep going.

On that one he said yeah I got you. On

this one again right away he says

gotcha. You swung. Now this one we don't

get an ass. That's the first story one.

No ask. Second story one. The one we're

talking about no ask. And this one third

first base ump says swung. So let's look

at these back toback. The one on the

bottom, the first base umpire said no

swing. So if CB had gone to the first

base umpire, the top one, which is the

one CB did not ask for help and the one

that they are arguing about, what would

it have been called? Cuz the bottom one

got called no swing. They're very

similar. I think if he goes the first

base and if the first base umpire is

consistent, that's probably not a swing.

Now this is the Ellie one. That was no

swing. And the top one again, the one

that CB did not ask for help. And

they're standing over the plate in

different areas. It's hard to see where

the plate actually is, but yeah, they

don't really come forward that much.

Now, here's an overlay of those. And

very similar. And here's an overlay of

Ellie and story. And very similar. Now,

to be fair to CB, the first time he

called it and he didn't ask for help.

That is on the bottom here. And it is,

you know, much more of a swing cuz the

bat head is all the way out there.

There's no real rule here at all. It's

not, it's just subjective like the

strike zone used to be. The strike zone

is not that way anymore. And CB is

missing those days when it was

subjective. It was just his decision. He

had control because want to know

something? They could have overturned 15

other calls in this game. They got five

overturns. They could have had 20 if

they wanted. All of these were called

strikes, but had they been challenged,

the system would have said no ball. And

you can't argue. You can't be like,

"Well, Jimmy, I don't know. That's kind

of close." Like, I don't think he does

that. The strike zone is a strike zone

now. Per the numbers, these would all

have been overturned. I think MLB has to

allow them three chances at this because

people are so scared of getting that

first one wrong. We want pitches called

correctly. If it's too hard for a human

to do it, put the system in play. That's

my take. But I I'm getting frustrated

how many times they're not challenging.

Like CB was awful all game. They didn't

hold him accountable into the sixth

inning. He missed 15 that they could

have overturned. They overturned five.

There were only 80 pitches that did not

get swung at in the shadow zone. meaning

balls on the edges that did not get

swung at in the shadow zone. There were

80 of them. He missed 20. That means

calls that we need an umpire. Again, if

the batter swings, you don't need an

umpire. If the ball hits the dirt, if

it's way above the head, way inside, way

outside, you don't need the umpire. If

it's right down the middle, you don't

need the umpire. We need an umpire to

call balls on the edges that are, you

know, right there or right not there.

It's so hard for a human to do. There

were 80 of them. CB Buckner missed 20.

One in four calls.

That's so bad. Anyway, if you want to

play a game and and not rely on bad

umpiring or or just umpiring that's too

hard, I don't want to come down on the

umps. It's hard for them to do and you

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