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Mariners Shortstop Thrown Out During Meltdown Over Truly Horrible Strike Three Call

Stephen Douglas

JP Crawford lets the umpire have a piece of his mind.
JP Crawford lets the umpire have a piece of his mind. / Photo by Stephen Brashear / Getty Image
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The Washington Nationals beat the Seattle Mariners 9-3 on Thursday. It was an especially rough outing for Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford who went 0-for-3 before he got ejected for arguing balls and strikes in the sixth inning.

Actually, that's a bit of an undersell. Crawford had one of the more animated meltdowns you'll ever see after he was called out on a pitch way outside the strike zone and according to home plate umpire Andy Fletcher.

Crawford was in an 0-2 hole when Nationals pitcher Mackenzie Gore threw what should have been ball one way off the plate. Instead, Fletcher punched him out.

And then Crawford got thrown out and went on an absolute tirade.

Here's how MLB.com visualizes where strike three was:

JP Crawford’s new strike zone
JP Crawford didn’t like this strike three call. / MLB.com

A look at Fletcher's umpire scorecard from the game shows that Crawford was probably not alone in his feelings about the zone, though things worked out pretty well for Gore, who scattered four hits in six innings of shutout work in the win.

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Stephen Douglas is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He has worked in media since 2008 and now casts a wide net with coverage across all sports. Douglas spent more than a decade with The Big Lead and previously wrote for Uproxx and The Sporting News. He has three children, two degrees and one now unverified Twitter account.

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