We all instinctively say it when we see a particularly bad call at the plate: “OMG THAT WAS THE WORST CALL EVER!” That, or things of that nature. It’s just part of being a fan.
And, indeed, the Chicago Cubs have been the victim of some egregiously horrible calls this year, often showing up on those Worst Calls of the Week-type round-ups.
But last night was different. There’s a chance that the Cubs in fact DID face the ACTUAL worst call in baseball history. It’s impossible to know for sure because it’s not like they had pitch-tracking cameras and data in 1915 or whatever, but at least for the last decade or so, the call last night was the literal worst.
It was so absurdly and unthinkably bad, in fact, that it’s just hard for me to imagine a worse call ever taking place:
Hey, the position player pitching always gets a little more grace, and maybe the looping nature of the pitch makes it a little trickier to call (then again, it’s so slow!). But even granting that, how on EARTH could you miss that one?
Just to underscore how hilariously outside the strike zone this one was:
Patrick Wisdom was completely befuddled, but it’s kinda hard to yell too much when it’s a position player pitching in a blowout.
The pitch is almost face high, AND about eight inches outside. Lol. How could a call possibly be worse?
OK, so I actually can imagine how a call could be a little worse if it were a similar situation, with a guy just lobbing it up there in a blowout and an umpire getting a little loosey-goosey with his calls. I haven’t seen one this bad myself, however, and neither have the years of available data.
Tough couple games for Wisdom, eh? There was this strike call, after which he got plunked by a SIZZLING 55 mph heater, and this was after he got ejected on Sunday despite not saying a single word to the umpire.