Remember when you were a kid and your mom and dad would pack the family in the car to head down to the baseball park? The whole way there you’d wonder who the umpire was for that game and what he was going to do to influence the result. Because that’s why everyone goes to baseball games, right?
Maybe that’s why home plate umpire Sam Holbrook thinks people go to baseball games, because he sure took it upon himself to make stupid decisions that could impact the final score. Did it have an impact? Well we know the Orioles lost, and maybe they would have lost anyway.