In September, the league selects four crews’ worth of umpires to work the Divisional Series round. It’ll tell them if they called a pitch two and a half inches outside, or it’ll tell them if this pitch was inside the zone and they called it a ball.” The day after they work the plate, they get a readout on every pitch that they actually called. “We have video review on all the calls they make, and we have the computer systems as far as plate work is concerned. In September, we bring our supervisors in and meet with (MLB chief baseball officer) Joe Torre and (VP of baseball operations) Peter Woodfork, and we go over the entire staff, all 76 names. They get mid-year evaluations, they get year-end evaluations. “Their strike zone is evaluated, all the plays they call on the field, how they handle situations - arguments and things like that, how they handle that. “These guys are evaluated every game they work all season long,” Marsh said. The umpires working the World Series represent the best of the best. The proliferation of high-definition video review and PitchF/X-type strike zone readouts prompt some to argue that MLB umpires have somehow gotten worse in recent years, a bafflingly illogical conclusion in a highly competitive baseball landscape changed daily by new technologies for assessing the performance of just about everyone. It’s not any different when you’re working the World Series.”
“To me, the pressure’s the same as it is opening day - I want to get every pitch right. “If you’re worried about the pressure, you’ve got the wrong job,” MLB umpiring director and former ump Randy Marsh told USA TODAY Sports. But the best any umpire can hope to achieve on Tuesday is for no one to notice him at all. Like the players, they represent the best in the world at their profession and, in the World Series, they are called upon to perform under unspeakable pressure. If the Cubs win, they buy themselves the chance to earn all those same things on Wednesday in Game 7.īut six guys spread out around Progressive Field on Tuesday night will endeavor Game 6 seeking no such glory.
2016 WORLD SERIES GAME 7 ONE OF THE BEST TV
If the Indians win, the Cleveland players become heroes forever in their city, ending a decades-long title drought and securing late-night TV appearances and free drinks and a White House visit. The Cubs and Indians play Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday night. Still, there was just one swing of the bat in it.CLEVELAND - How ’bout a little love for the other guys on the field? So it was past midnight in Cleveland when Michael Martínez came to the plate, nearly four and a half hours after the first pitch, with two men out, a runner on first and the Cubs 8-7 in front. For the fifth time in history, Game 7 of the World Series was going to extra innings.Īnd then, it started to rain, delaying the finale for almost half an hour. With the score back to 6-4 in the bottom of the eighth and a runner on second, Rajai Davis hit a home run that tied the game at 6-6. But baseball is a sport like few others, since a single swing of the bat can score one, two, three or even four runs to turn a game on its head. It was 6-3 Cubs by the middle of the eighth, a three-run cushion with six outs needed for victory. No sooner had Cubs fans started to believe than Cleveland roared back, with two runs to make it 5-3. The Indians tied it in the third, went 3-1 down in the next and 5-1 down by the middle of the fifth. The Cubs got on the board early, as the first batter up hit a long home run over the centre field wall.
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