MLB Ejections 142-145 - Mike Everitt (3-6; 4 DET Tigers)

[Lindsay]

HP Umpire Mike Everitt ejected Tigers DH Victor Martinez for arguing a strike one call in the bottom of the 3rd, Tigers Hitting Coach Wally Joyner and Manager Brad Ausmus for arguing a strike three call in the bottom of the 5th, and Tigers RF JD Martinez for arguing a strike three call in the...

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[Stk004]

This is ridiculous. 

[udbrky]

[Richvee]

6 minutes ago, udbrky said:

Post game version "I told Mike I don't think he's having a goodnight"...On field version probably more like "You F*%k*#g suck tonight, Mike"

[stkjock]

Everett gave him 3 chances... 'I warned you three times'.  LOL

 

[udbrky]

Haha, yeah.

Seems like maybe Everitt didn't give very firm warnings.

Couple other funny comments:

 

[stkjock]

I also liked the "Are you kidding me" from Everett

 

Sportscenter just said that Everett ejected 4 tonight

[Stk004]

6 minutes ago, stkjock said:

I also liked the "Are you kidding me" from Everett

 

Sportscenter just said that Everett ejected 4 tonight

Ejection 142, 143, 144, 145. 2 players, hitting coach, Ausmus.

[dumbdumb]

 

The rogue triangle strike to the left, outside the slashed average zone is a 5th pitch 2nd strike to Cabrera in the 1st, but what they don't tell you is that it came after the 3rd pitch ball inside the lower left hand of the solid square or the 2nd pitch ball, half and half on the bottom line, right in the middle. And Cabrera walked on 7 pitches in that at bat. Now the red triangle at the bottom middle that shows low, was a 3rd pitch strike that rung up McCann in the 2nd as he watched all 6 pitches and never took the bat off his shoulder in the 2nd inning.

Courtesy of pitch f/x

[blue23ll]

The announcers got it right. "Every 50/50 pitch has been called a strike all night long" 

[JaxRolo]

I say he had a great night

[LittleBlue]

4 hours ago, JaxRolo said:

I say he had a great night

I think it's more that 4 people got tossed. They may be justified but it isn't a good look.

[UMP45]

1 hour ago, LittleBlue said:

I think it's more that 4 people got tossed. They may be justified but it isn't a good look.

Why?

[Jimurray]

I would have ejected the catcher for pulling pitches, some strikes some not but it looks bad. Although maybe in MLB it's ok. AJ does it also.

[LittleBlue]

3 hours ago, UMP45 said:

Why?

Just a quick search of Mike Everitt on Google earlier brought up a few articles with headlines like "Mike Everitt: Ump Show." I'm not saying that he shouldn't have tossed them but all the non-umpires get up in arms when they see that many people get tossed.

[Thawk]

When the hometown announcers even question their own team's players for acting surprised about the PU calling the same pitch over and over all night long, that tells me they were just not wanting to swing the bat. 

[Jimurray]

33 minutes ago, Thawk751 said:

When the hometown announcers even question their own team's players for acting surprised about the PU calling the same pitch over and over all night long, that tells me they were just not wanting to swing the bat. 

The announcers also credited Perez with good recieving.  Which it was not.

[Thunderheads]

21 hours ago, dumbdumb said:

 

The rogue triangle strike to the left, outside the slashed average zone is a 5th pitch 2nd strike to Cabrera in the 1st, but what they don't tell you is that it came after the 3rd pitch ball inside the lower left hand of the solid square or the 2nd pitch ball, half and half on the bottom line, right in the middle. And Cabrera walked on 7 pitches in that at bat. Now the red triangle at the bottom middle that shows low, was a 3rd pitch strike that rung up McCann in the 2nd as he watched all 6 pitches and never took the bat off his shoulder in the 2nd inning.

Courtesy of pitch f/x

thanks dumbdumb .........  is this the "adjusted"?

I know the "foxtrax" strike zone boxes aren't very good, but every pitch show the ball touching the zone (foxtrax zone at least)  

[Lindsay]

The Oberholzer vs McCann plot contains an inaccurate portrayal of the strike zone, as most plots tend to. The average player's strike zone—or that which Brooks chooses to portray as the average—runs from 1.5 to 3.5. Those units are in feet, as are all px, pz, sz_bot, and sz_top values. However, McCann's reported sz_bot was 1.45 and his sz_top was 3.37: The strike zone begins lower than the average, and ends lower than the average. The 6th pitch, pz 1.259, is wholly lower than the reported sz_bot value. Finally, this is a plot of the center of a baseball and doesn't consider the baseball's approx. 1.5-inch radius.

For a real-world application of how this manifests (along with an example of pitch f/x operator error), see http://www.closecallsports.com/2012/09/ejection-148-tony-randazzo.html.