SD cries over reversed call: “It’s the worst call ever”, outrage from players to manager

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• on Jun 23, 2023

The San Diego Padres are frustrated. It was a bad call.

San Diego lost 2-4 against the San Francisco Giants in the 2023 Major League Baseball game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, USA, on April 22 (KST). The loss dropped the Padres to 35-39 and snapped a three-game losing streak, as well as San Francisco’s 10-game winning streak.

The loss was largely due to the early collapse of Darvish. There were some bad calls along the way.

Darvish was pitching a scoreless fourth inning. But in the fifth inning, he ran into trouble. He gave up back-to-back infield singles to Luis Matos and Blake Sey and a walk to David Villa to load the bases.

Darvish gave up a sacrifice fly to left field to Brandon Crawford to lead off the inning. But Casey Schmidt struck out to end the inning with two outs.스포츠토토

The next situation was problematic. With runners on first and second, Jacob Pederson singled to right. This is where right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. made a huge play. He caught the ball and quickly threw home, a laser throw that found catcher Gary Sanchez, who tagged out Seibol at second base as he raced home. The inning was set to end with no further runs scored.

That’s when the San Francisco bench called for a video review. They argued that Sanchez, the catcher, had blocked Seibol’s sliding path. After a lengthy video review, the call was overturned. The out was a safe. A blocking violation was the reason. A furious San Diego manager Bob Melvin ran out to protest, but to no avail. The umpire ejected Melvin.

The San Diego players went into the dugout and came out again, and a dejected Darvish gave up back-to-back hits, eventually giving up five runs. San Diego then scored two runs, but that was it.

After the game, San Diego players were furious. According to MLB.com, Tatis Jr. was furious that “they put an offense on us.”

Catcher Sanchez said, “(I) could have been in front of home plate or somewhere else. But I was just watching where the ball was coming from. The ball took me toward third base,” he explained.

Coach Melvin was also outraged: “Look at where Sanchez was coming from. If you look at the replay, it was a legitimate move from the time the ball was already in play. The catcher has to judge where the pitch is coming from, see where the runner is, and move toward the ball. For me, it was the worst challenge of the season,” he said strongly.