On Friday afternoon during a 19-inning marathon between the Toronto Blue Jays and Cleveland Indians, fans experienced firsthand what happens when an umpire single-handedly upstages a baseball game on Canada Day.
Not only was Vic Carapazza’s strike zone an absolute mess, vacillating between outside and high balls that were inexplicably called strikes over and over again, but it was his incredibly egotistical decision to toss both Edwin Encarnacion and John Gibbons out of the game in the bottom of the first inning which came as a horrible insult to the 48,000 spectators in attendance.