Yes, Angel Hernandez Is Still a Terrible Umpire
Angel Hernandez is at it again. On Monday night he was doing his best to ruin yet another Major League Baseball game, as he made his usual number of ridiculous calls during the Los Angeles Dodgers' 3-2 win over the San Francisco Giants.
Hernandez has a penchant for emphatically ringing hitters up on pitches way outside the zone and he was no better on Monday. He got Buster Posey in the first on one of the worst calls of the season:
Umpire Angel Hernandez rang up Buster Posey on a pitch that missed outside by 4.31 inches.#Giants #Dodgers @BusterPosey pic.twitter.com/ITkFDLV9R6
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) June 29, 2021
He later rung up Alex Dickerson on a pitch that was a few inches high, and area he hadn't called strikes in all night:
Angel Hernandez just blew another strikeout, this time expanding the zone vertically on this pitch to Mike Yastrzemski. https://t.co/SUJBtT6qLD pic.twitter.com/VurcnZC26C
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) June 29, 2021
Twitter, as usual, was not kind to Hernandez:
Ahh, yes, it's an Angel Hernandez game pic.twitter.com/e1mmjLkF5x
— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) June 29, 2021
Not once have I ever stopped to wonder, "Gosh, I wonder why Angel Hernandez is a trending topic."
— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) June 29, 2021
MLB Gameday doesn't outline the Angel Hernandez strike zone properly so I went ahead and did it myself. pic.twitter.com/gAN32K9H3B
— Steve Buchanan (@SBuchanan24) June 29, 2021
Angel Hernandez called this a strike pic.twitter.com/cpkKEIgzJP
— notzak194 (@DFAHosmer) June 29, 2021
Angel Hernandez getting started early tonight. This to ring up Posey pic.twitter.com/jbJlfVpNsV
— ?????? (@Jaded_Genius) June 29, 2021
Umpires got to have the best greatest union in history because idk how else Angel Hernandez would still have a job. pic.twitter.com/NbPMWm36GO
— Austin Grant (@AustinPlanet) June 29, 2021
Here we go again…Angel Hernandez, omg. pic.twitter.com/yA6WEAXUGM
— Newkin (@tragicallyhip12) June 29, 2021
Trevor Bauer greatly benefitted from Hernandez's calls behind the dish, but after the game even he was beside himself with how awful the ump was. In his post-game press availability, Bauer walked off shocked no one had asked about "f---ing Angel Hernandez." Check it out:
Trevor Bauer last night:
— MLB Foreign Substance Checks (@StickyCheck) June 29, 2021
“Surprised no one asked about f***in’ Angel Hernandez...” pic.twitter.com/9vfsTq6BUa
We've been over this time and again, but Hernandez is one of the worst umpires in MLB history. The league has even admitted as much. He needs to go. I don't care what it takes, get him away from the game.