Larry Vanover is not a bad umpire, but perhaps even umpires have bad games during the dog days of Summer.
It was getting so bad last night, that the FOX broadcasters actually starting counting the missed pitch calls by Vanover – and mind you, this is not a bias complaint, for the errors were on both sides. I believe they stopped counting around mid-game when the number hit double-digits.
If you check this strikezone map on Brooksbaseball.net, you’ll see what I mean. There are at least 16 pitches (8 to LHH, 8 to RHH) that were incorrectly called….