White Sox Humber Perfect Game

[dmdhiker]

Two outs, three and two in the ninth inning of a perfect game. Check swing third strike call on an obvious ball four if he didn't go. Well????

Great game, I'm a huge Sox fan, very cool.

[scrounge]

Awesome game....not living in the area anymore (formerly Hoffman Estates), I wish I could have heard Hawk's call.

[dmdhiker]

No Hawk, network game. Would have loved to hear him call this no-no. Scounrge, Columbus area? I go there often.

[Umpy]

Oh lord its hard to be Humber, when you're perfect in every way

[scrounge]

Oh, that's right, the Fox exclusive game. Even locally? I did hear Farmio's radio call on the post-game....a little underwhelming actually. Oh well! At least we have one great highlight in what's likely to be a bleak year.

[dmdhiker]

Sorry, but I'll be an optimist at least till the all-star break.

p.s. I got the intentionally lame pun, nice. :clap:

[mjr_2013]

Oh Gawd... PLEASE keep me far away from Harrelson... Harrelson is far and away the worst announcer in sports. He doesn't announce the game, he just roots for the White Sox. I could pick someone out of the bleachers at Mobile Phone Park and they would probably do just as good a job as Harrelson. He brings NOTHING insightful to the game... His "He Gone", "Put it on the board, YES", "Mercy", and "Stretch" are childish and extremely old.

Well done by Humber though. He earned it.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Looked like Ryan sure did go to me. Too close to ruin a perfect game over. He looked like he offered and couldn't check it in my opinion. On a play like that, you don't want to be "that umpire." Just ask Jim Joyce. Cryin' Ryan and the Mariners can just get over it. Ryan arguing the call shows a total lack of class and professional courtesy.

[mjr_2013]

Looked like Ryan sure did go to me. Too close to ruin a perfect game over. He looked like he offered and couldn't check it in my opinion. On a play like that, you don't want to be "that umpire." Just ask Jim Joyce. Cryin' Ryan and the Mariners can just get over it. Ryan arguing the call shows a total lack of class and professional courtesy.

I would have liked to see an appeal. PU was awfully quick in his judgement... Sure, you don't want to be "that umpire", but you also want to get the call right. I still haven't seen a side angle of the check swing, which annoys me, so I'll withhold my call on this until I see one.

The Mariners have been begging to be no-hit for a couple years now... With the lineup they put out there it feels like if you can get Ichiro to go 0-3, you have a good shot at a shutout or even a no hitter.

[johnnyg08]

He offered at the pitch. Perfect game certainly not w/o a little controversy. That call was going to be all PU.

I do think PU got it right though.

[Texarkana]

This is really neat. I umpired a lot of his games when he was in high school. Always was a pretty nice kid.

[SanDiegoSteve]

^^^And I umpired some games with the PU that made the call (Brian Runge) just after he got out of pro school, and umpired several of his Palomino games when he was a catcher before that.

[yawetag]

^^^And I umpired some games with the PU that made the call (Brian Runge) just after he got out of pro school, and umpired several of his Palomino games when he was a catcher before that.

Steve, I feel like you're the Kevin Bacon of umpiring. "Seven Degrees of SanDiegoSteve."

Link SanDiegoSteve to Mike Smith, the coach of 9U travel team St. Louis Barnstormers:

SanDiegoSteve talks to yawetag on umpire-empire.

yawetag umpired with John Brown on 04/18/12 at a varsity game between City School and County Prep.

John Brown umpired a game on 03/11/09 at a 12U game between the Sluggers (coached by Kevin Bills) and Chargers.

Kevin Bills was an assistant coach for Mike Smith on the 2008 St. Louis Barnstormers.

[SanDiegoSteve]

^^^And I umpired some games with the PU that made the call (Brian Runge) just after he got out of pro school, and umpired several of his Palomino games when he was a catcher before that.

Steve, I feel like you're the Kevin Bacon of umpiring. "Seven Degrees of SanDiegoSteve."

Link SanDiegoSteve to Mike Smith, the coach of 9U travel team St. Louis Barnstormers:

SanDiegoSteve talks to yawetag on umpire-empire.

yawetag umpired with John Brown on 04/18/12 at a varsity game between City School and County Prep.

John Brown umpired a game on 03/11/09 at a 12U game between the Sluggers (coached by Kevin Bills) and Chargers.

Kevin Bills was an assistant coach for Mike Smith on the 2008 St. Louis Barnstormers.

Congrats to the Blues for finally winning a playoff series for the first time in 10 years! Fun game to watch. Love those empty net goals!

[kylejt]

I was watching the last half inning, thinking "None of these umpires want to Jim Joyce a call".

Sure enough, the PU was calling anything near the zone, and there was no well in Hell he was NOT going to call the checkswing a strike. Not a chance. They all knew the situation, no doubt about it.

Then, when the game switched back to the Yankees v. BoSox, the first thing I see is Jim Joyce's face at second. Classic.

[Welpe]

PU was awfully quick in his judgement...

I think he knew exactly what he had and confidently called it right away.

I still haven't seen a side angle of the check swing, which annoys me, so I'll withhold my call on this until I see one.

That is more or less irrelevant. It's plain to see from straight on that he offered.

Congrats to the Blues for finally winning a playoff series for the first time in 10 years! Fun game to watch. Love those empty net goals!

Bah!!!

[Rich Ives]

You're all outa here for arguing balls and strikes!! :wave:

[UmpJM]

On a related note....

My eldest son, who is his senior year of college at a university in Tacoma, didn't have anything going on on Saturday & talked a couple of his buddies into going up to Seattle and catching his hometown White Sox vs. the Mariners. I believe it's the second Mariners game he's been to in his four years there.

Some guys have all the luck!

JM

[umpcoachfather]

Not one station had a good replay of that at bat, the only thing that really bothered me is on ESPN, one of the guys said, "I can't really tell if he broke his wrists on that". He shouldnt even have moved on that pitch, its his own fault for putting it in the umps hands. It would have been a shame if he took ball 4.

[yawetag]

Not one station had a good replay of that at bat, the only thing that really bothered me is on ESPN, one of the guys said, "I can't really tell if he broke his wrists on that". He shouldnt even have moved on that pitch, its his own fault for putting it in the umps hands. It would have been a shame if he took ball 4.

As I said elsewhere, the batter had two options: (1) Keep the bat on his shoulder, and (2) Be called out on a check swing.

[Haid D' Salaami]

I am born and raised in Tacoma, the Military took me away from Home.. I am still a huge M's fan..

I dont think he offered at the pitch, but it was a perfect game, so give it to him, he earned it.

on a side note, why dont OBR change their rules to the NCAA rule on Check swings or as it is called in College "half swing"

[dmdhiker]

Humber on Late Show...

http://mlb.mlb.com/v...ent_id=20860043

[Rich Ives]

I dont think he offered at the pitch, but it was a perfect game, so give it to him, he earned it.

Not if he walked that batter he didn't. If he truly didn't offer - call it as such.

why doesn't OBR change their rules to the NCAA rule on Check swings

MLB assumes their umpires are capable of figuring out on their own what an offer is I guess.

[Umpete]

Yes He Did!!!

[SanDiegoSteve]

Yes He Did!!!

Yes, he sure did. Even by NCAA criteria he went. The barrel of the bat is past the plate. As Mark Grant aptly would say, "If he hits it, it's a double."