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A Charitable Theory About Some Dismal Umpiring: Hunter Wendelstedt Went Temporarily Blind At The End Of Saturday Night's Game

Hunter Wendelstedt made several jaw-droppingly wrong calls behind the plate in last two innings of Saturday night's Red Sox/Orioles game. A kindly explanation for this fiasco would be that Wendelstedt experienced a bout of temporary blindness, rendering him unable to see any of the pitches and so he simply guessed as to their approximate location vis-à-vis the strike zone.

If I was not so charitable, I'd say that Wendelstedt is a garbage umpire who, if today's calls are indicative of his usual work behind the plate, should have retired quite a while ago (despite being only 47 years old).