Umpire denies 2 ABS challenges in one game, a breakdown

open the game up with two consecutive

outs. 3-1 pitch. Likes his spot. No, it

was a ball. Taps his head. Umpire's

like, "No, too late, man. Too slow."

Coach is like, "What? What are you

talking? He tapped it too slow. It's too

slow." was that's wrong. That's

wrong.

And it's still wrong. It did not

change in between the two times he said

it. It was still wrong. He's seething.

They're mad. The runner goes to first

base now. Ball four. The inning

continues, but the gods are going to

side with the Athletics and say, "You

throw him out easily and tag him in the

face." That umpire makes a proper call.

So, he is out. It just took a couple

extra. No, it didn't even really add any

pitches. You just got caught stealing.

And now we hit that same spot basically

and it's a strike. And then we hit the

same spot on the bottom edge again and

it's strike three. So they were all, you

know, strikes. It worked out. Well,

let's go to the third inning. I'll

explain what happened there at the end

because we got two cases of this. McNeel

is at bat now for the Athletics. And

it's the top of the third inning and

we're going to have another denial.

We've got first pitch of the inning in

there, strike one. Next pitch of the

inning, fouled back. 0 and2. They're

going to go right at him. Get the strike

out. Top of the zone. They love it. Goes

to throw it around. Tap tap tap. Hey,

we're going to challenge that. Umpire's

like, "What?" Pitcher Bass's like, "Hey,

we tapped." And you could hear some of

the hot mics bleed through here.

>> He didn't tap. I didn't hear it. He's

Yes, he did. He's like, "I I didn't hear

it. I called it a ball." He said he was

going to throw it around and then he

came up and tapped. Oh, I didn't hear

it. What the do you mean you

couldn't hear it? It's right in front of

you. I don't know. I didn't hear it. But

he's right in front of you. Well, I

don't know. Oh, what even happened? What

happened? They're trying to figure it

out. This guy missed it, too. He tap

tapped what is this a new rule this

year? Yo, you got to lock it the

in. We got to lock it the in,

Carlos. Hey. Hey, I hear you. No more.

All right. No more. We got to lock in.

Let's go. Let's go. And then all of his

coaches start chirping. You can see the

guy uh on the left by the phone. He's

like, he's he's chirping. He tapped. And

then the other coaches and offscreen to

the right is Miguel Cairo. And he's

chirping too. He's you're out of here.

And look at look, this is funny. Miguel

Cairo knows that he got ejected. starts

stepping up on the step to go fight, but

then he realizes maybe maybe it wasn't

me. Maybe maybe I'll play at Koi. And

manager is like, wait, what? He's like,

who who got ejected? Me? Did I is it me?

And his coach is like, nah, it is him.

And he's like, what is is him? Yeah, it

was him. And now Miguel Cairo is going

to yell at him. And I couldn't I don't

know if this was Spanish or English or

what, but he's fiery and he's hot and

he's telling him that he hates his guts

probably. He's like, "Okay, cool. I hate

myself sometimes, too." and get out of

here. And they're throwing him back into

the dugout and he's like riding that

step just to get a final word in. HE'S

LIKE, "IT'S HOT AND I HATE YOU." And

then he leaves and that's that's it. Now

umpire Carlo Source puts his mouth guard

back in, feels hot, wipes his head, puts

his helmet on, and he's ready to go. So

let's take a look at these two because

we got both managers now looking out and

being like, "What the hell, dude?" And

he's like, "Yeah, I was there a couple

innings ago." So let's take a look and

break down what happened on these two

and why they got denied. The rule says

the tap has to come right away within

around two seconds and no external help

and you can't do any other movements

before you tap. That's kind of like the

general guideline of the rule. The

problem is for catchers, it's harder.

The batter hears shack and they know

when they're two seconds start. The

catchers if they don't hear ball or

that's outside or that's inside, they

don't know. They're just in limbo and

then they have to realize, oh he's

not calling it. So this he thinks it

might be a delayed punch out. Like he

thinks the umpire might be taking two

steps back to HAVE THE DRAMATIC MOMENT

STRIKE THREE. So he's got to wait that

out. So what I did was I found the punch

out in the next at bat and I wanted to

see how long it takes the umpire Carlos

Torres to do his strike three call. So

you're going to hear it and I put it on

screen.

right there. That's how he does it. So,

it's real quick.

Now, let's put these side by side and

have it be the same timing. Even though

he doesn't say anything for ball four,

he's just quiet. It's the same cadence

if the catcher was like, "Well, I know

it would be around here." That's when

the timer starts on the tapping. So,

right.

So, right there. Okay. We synced him up

is when he starts the strike call. So in

his head you maybe he mumbled it all

four very meekly and the catcher has to

hear it. Ready, set, go. One

Mississippi, two Mississippi. I got him

tapping in time. And that's not an

official count. That's me saying one

Mississippi, two Mississippi. And

sometimes maybe I'm too fast on that,

but I've got him tapping in time. Ready?

One Mississippi, two miss tap tap tap

tap tap. And he saw him do it. He heard

it. It gets his attention. He looks

down. I don't know why that one didn't

count. It seemed well within reason for

me, especially if you're not going to

vocalize ball four. You got to give the

catcher, he's got to be able to hear the

starting gun or he doesn't know the race

has begun. Poem.

Now, let's look at the next one cuz this

one is entirely different. We've got the

O2 pitch. And once again, the catcher is

waiting. See, he goes to throw it around

right away. And he's waiting to hear,

but he never hears it. As soon as he

doesn't hear it, he goes to the helmet.

And what happened here is he's just not

loud enough. You could hear the umpire

say, "I didn't hear it." Now, they have

been told, "Make sure you say it with

your mouth and tap the helmet." There's

a physical cue and they have told the

catchers and the batters that you should

also say, "I want to challenge that."

Or, "Oh, challenging that and both." And

the catcher, I don't even, you know,

maybe you got bang yourself in the head

real loud and make it noticeable. But

he's not looking at him. You can see

he's not looking at him. And then you

you'll see what it looks like when he's

looking at him. That

uh

there tilts his head down. Uh he's

supposed to be looking at him. So that's

why the the manager is saying, "Lock it

in." Like that's your job, dog. Look at

the catcher. He might be tapping. And

the umpire saying, "Well, in the off

case, I'm not looking. He needs to

vocalize it to to make it be known." I

think I think both people are right. If

you're challenging a call, make sure

that ump knows you're challenging a

call. UMP, come on.

Take a look. The other umpires are

looking at the pitcher. So, it's home

plate umpire's job to look at the

catcher, see if he's tapping. Second

base umpire's job to look at the pitcher

to see if the pitcher is tapping. Uh

because at one point, the manager, I

think, was like, "What about them?" And

he was like, "That's not their job." So,

I don't know. What do you guys think? I

think that you should just allow these.

That's what I think. But maybe you guys

disagree. Let me know in the comments.

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