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MLB Fans Rightfully Ripped Ump for This Laughably Bad Called Strike

This wasn’t his only awful call of the night.
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MLB Fans Rightfully Ripped Ump for This Laughably Bad Called Strike
MLB Fans Rightfully Ripped Ump for This Laughably Bad Called Strike

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Being a home plate umpire in Major League Baseball can’t be the easiest job in the world but still, we shouldn’t see any of them making the type of mistakes Brian O’Nora made in Tuesday night’s Marlins-Braves game. 

O’Nora, who has long been considered one of the worst umpires in all of baseball, added another embarrassingly bad wrong call that cost Atlanta’s Ozzie Albies a strike during an at-bat in the fourth inning. 

But that wasn’t the only bad call O’Nora made in the game. He missed an astounding 17 calls on the night, which only adds to his reputation of being not very good at his job. 

Check out this pitch that he called a strike:

That was pathetic. 

So were these wrong calls: 

MLB fans ripped him: 

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Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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