Umpires make horrible calls in the World Series, just like they do in the regular season. And champions keep on playing and win their championships.
Thursday’s World Series game included two bad calls at first base. And the umpiring didn’t affect the outcome of the game at all. The Yankees just kept taking care of business. They didn’t need the extra runs they might have scored in the seventh inning. And Mariano Rivera would have gotten another out if the umpires hadn’t helped him in the eighth.
The most famous bad World Series call that I can remember is Don Denkinger’s blown call in Game 6 of the 1985 World Series, calling Jorge Orta of the Kansas City Royals (back when they were a perennial contender) safe at first leading off the ninth inning. St. Louis Cardinals fans lament that call decades later and still think they lost the 1985 World Series because of that call. Read the rest of this entry »
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