Umpire earns awful marks after blowing calls against Yankees in loss to Astros

It’s pretty clear the Yankees aren’t the only ones who thought home plate umpire Brian Walsh had a rough night behind the plate in their loss to Houston on Wednesday night.

The ump, who tossed Devin Williams and Aaron Boone in the bottom of the eighth for complaining about several missed calls, was also graded poorly by the website umpscorecards.com.

Perhaps most notably, the site said his calls favored the Astros by 1.4 runs.

According to the site, that stat “represents the impact of an umpire on a team’s or game’s expected runs.”

Since it’s an inexact science, you can at least compare how other umpires were rated and how Walsh was graded in his other games as a home plate umpire.

For instance, the next largest amount a team was judged to have been favored by on Wednesday was Baltimore getting 0.68 runs over San Diego.