During yesterday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians, an umpire controversy allowed Cleveland to take the lead in the first inning and saw the ejection of Aaron Boone from the game. The controversy started when a video scoreboard at the stadium showed a replay of Aaron Hicks failing to catch a ball. The ruling on the field was that Hicks had made the catch and doubled the runner off of second to end the inning.
Without ever receiving a formal challenge from Guardians’ manager Terry Francona, the umpires convened way after the allotted 15 seconds for a challenge and overturned the call.