The burning question after this game is: who was worse, the umpire, or the Astros hitters? Hmmmm. Ump?... Hitters?... Ump?.... Hitters?
Let’s start with the umpire.
If you saw the game you know what I mean. If you didn’t do not assume this is just bitter homerism speaking. This writer was an umpire. I don’t like criticizing umpires because 1. it’s useless whining, and 2. I know how hard umpiring is.
But tonight was so bad, so consistently wrong, over and over again, and we can see the exact pitch location on the TV feed, that it is not crazy to think it was intentional.