New angle of botched Aaron Judge home run call is even more egregious for Yankees

On Sunday afternoon in Tampa, FL (at the Yankees' spring training home, no less), forces beyond the team's control conspired to take away both a home run and a no-hitter on a whim — in separate occurrences.

The official scorer (a Rays employee, not a Yankees holdover) decided, about three innings after the fact, that Max Fried would never have beaten a streaking Chandler Simpson to the bag, whether or not Paul Goldschmidt had fielded his grounder cleanly. The official scorer was correct; he would not have done so. But since when has it been acceptable to go back and revise a decision mid-game, especially with history on the line? Should we retroactively change the 1985 World Series because a more objectively incorrect call was botched? Aaron Boone was diplomatic in the postgame. Good for him.

But even Boone could not bite his tongue on the more egregious mid-game miscarriage of justice, a disastrous eighth-inning at-bat where Aaron Judge plainly lost a home run, then found himself rung up on a ball below the zone. Boone got ejected, then further expanded on the situation in anger during the postgame. Plainly: "The audacity of the call standing is remarkable. It's a home run." Agreed!

If you watch this clear Judge home run sail well to the right of the foul pole and still claim the video's inconclusive, then what are you doing with your life? Is it umpiring? Should it be umpiring?

New York Yankees' Aaron Judge gets home run blatantly stolen by umpiring, review center vs. Tampa Bay Rays

Objective Truth: The Yankees still won the baseball game, and should probably be more chapped about the four-run, sweep-bungling lead they blew in the ninth inning on Saturday.

Objective Truth: It was a home run. Everyone knows it was a home run. How could the one person required to know it was a home run not be able to tell it was a home run?

Bad umpiring, and the impossible intricacies of the review rules, are always easy to overlook until they strike your team. This is now the second conclusive home run Judge has lost to the whims of the review process, as he chugs for the Hall of Fame and a case full of broken records. Sunday's blast and the 2017 home run that cleared the fence, but was deemed to have stayed in the ballpark for reasons unknown, are now paired together in biased infamy.

Seriously, how does anyone watch that video and not overturn the call?