A badly-blown call by an umpire left Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Wil Crowe absolutely stunned on Wednesday.
The Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 to take two of three in the series. Crowe was summoned to pitch in the top of the seventh inning with the game tied 3-3. Crowe was facing Trea Turner with a runner on third and one out. He threw a 1-0 breaking ball for what should have been a strike, but umpire Jansen Visconti somehow missed the call.
Crowe couldn’t believe it.
That pitch was a strike. The problem is the catcher was set up outside and had to move his glove to catch the ball, which may have led Visconti to think the pitch was out of the zone when it wasn’t.
Crowe ended up walking Turner and Freddie Freeman, but he got two straight outs to end the bases-loaded threat. Daniel Vogelbach homered in the bottom of the inning, and then the Pirates added an insurance run in the ninth to win 5-3.
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