Breaking: Umpire Under Fire for Controversial Strike Call in World Series Opener
The first game of the New York Yankees–Los Angeles Dodgers matchup in the World Series got off to a slow start Friday night, but it wasn’t without some early controversy.
MLB umpire Carlos Torres, who is working home plate in Game 1 at Dodger Stadium, got his World Series debut off to a questionable start, to say the least. In the first inning, Torres called a strike on Dodgers’ Jack Flaherty’s pitch to Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. even though the ball appeared well outside the strike zone.
Torres’s strike zone continued to baffle fans, even as Fox analyst John Smoltz said that it would be “a hitter’s strike zone tonight.”
Then, when Yankees’ Gerrit Cole took the mound early in the game, Torres called a ball and then a strike on two nearly identical pitches. Take a look for yourself:
MLB fans were far from impressed.
