If baseball had its own five stages of grief, the equivalent of denial would be “well the they’re hitting everything hard but it’s just not falling their way,” and anger would be “this is all the umps fault, give me robot umps.” Cleveland Indians fans are somewhere between these two stages, slowly encroaching on the latter. I have no doubt that the Indians will pull out of this sooner or later, but boy, it sure isn’t fun to endure every night right now.
On this particular night, Indians fans’ anger manifested in the form of blaming the umpires.