Is it a baseball game if umpire Angel Hernandez doesn’t steal the spotlight with an atrocious and controversial call?
That’s been a staple for Hernandez throughout his career but he seems to be taking it up a notch this season. It’s a trend that continued on Friday night during a game between the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers.
With the Rangers leading 8-1 in the top of the fourth inning and Astros pitcher J.P. France in a 2-0 hole, he found a glitch in Hernandez’s matrix. He threw a cutter well out of the zone but Hernandez called it a strike. Then he did it again. And then again.
Wyatt Langford was rung up despite all five pitches being well out of the zone.