Yankees: These 3 CB Bucknor ball-strike calls should have him banned from MLB

Home plate umpire CB Bucknor made some terrible calls against the Yankees in ALDS Game 2.

New York Yankees fans certainly aren’t solely blaming C.B. Bucknor for his horrific work behind the plate in Game 2 of the ALDS. There were many other factors that doomed the Bombers on Tuesday night. But we’d be remiss not to mention this man’s ineptitude.

Bucknor was objectively bad, but he was even worse in making calls against the Yankees. We have the receipts. They’re all over social media. If you want to watch a re-run of the game, be our guest. If you missed the action, your jaw will be on the floor because our description of these calls do not do them their injustice.

His worst call, by far, came in the top of the ninth on a 3-1 count to Gleyber Torres. He called that little orange dot a strike, and it looked even worse on the highlight than it does on this diagram.

Luckily, Torres took ball four on the next pitch, but calling that a strike in such a crucial situation with the game close in the ninth is indefensible. You cannot be that bad at your job.

But perhaps his most consistent errors came on the outside parts of the plate, specifically against right-handed hitters. This one put Luke Voit in an 0-2 hole and made it even more difficult to face Rays stud Nick Anderson.

It’s just not a strike! It’s not even close! A couple of these getting peppered in over the course of a nine-inning game is understandable, but this was a downright trend. Remember, we’re only pointing out the most egregious ones. We don’t have time to write a novel on this.

Here, we have a combo of strikes that were called balls against Yankees pitchers and balls that were called strikes against Yankees hitters. Oh, you thought only the batters were affected by Bucknor’s awfulness? Silly you!

There it is. All you need to see. We’d rather not keep going for the sake of everybody involved. MLB better make sure this man is not behind the plate for another postseason game in 2020.

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