Angels manager Ron Washington rips ‘bad’ strike call to end game as Yankees escape with win
NY Post
Calls for robot umps will get louder after this one.
The Yankees got a little bit of help defeating the Angels on Wednesday night, 1-0, as Mark Leiter Jr. closed it out, with home plate umpire Ben May giving a rather generous called strike three to end the game with the tying run on base.
“It was bad. I didn’t know it was that far off the plate until I just saw it,” Angels manager Ron Washington said after his team landed on the wrong end of a sweep.
He added: “It is difficult to accept, but from our vantage point, the pitch looked like it had height. I just seen it inside and (the catcher) snatched it back.”
The 2-2 slider from Leiter went about six inches off the outside corner to right-handed hitter Logan O’Hoppe while the Angels had a man on first.
O’Hoppe immediately protested the call as the Yankees came together to celebrate their fifth straight victory on this three-city road trip.
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