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Calls Mount for Umpire's Firing After Mets' Loss to Yankees

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Zach Kaplan | Last updated Jul 7, 2025 2:33 PM ET

As the 2025 season stretches on, more and more examples have sprouted of MLB's umpires making questionable calls which affect the outcome of a game.

In June, the X account Umpire Auditor reported that umpires missed 4,209 calls including 202 strikeouts.

This weekend's Mets-Yankees series was a spectacle in questionable umpiring, though, as Mike Estabrook and John Bacon on Saturday and Sunday did their best to influence the outcome of the game behind the dish.

Estabrook's missed strike three call on Jasson Dominguez on Saturday ended up setting up a home run for the slugger.

Bacon, however, generated controversy in the ninth inning of Sunday's game which has fans outraged.

Umpire John Bacon rang up Luis Torrens on two bad calls in the 9th.

When Mets manager Carlos Mendoza complained, he was ejected.

Bacon missed 20 calls in the game. pic.twitter.com/qcutG2dyC4
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) July 7, 2025

Estabrook missed 18 calls on Saturday, and Bacon followed that up with a 20-missed-call day of his own.

Bacon rung up Mets pinch-hitter Luis Torrens, who was the last catcher on the Mets' bench on three highly questionable calls in the ninth, leading to manager Carlos Mendoza's ejection.

"The Mets got jobbed on those calls. I don't blame them for being angry. But this ump had Max Fried and Aaron Judge ready to lobby for robo-umps from the first inning on," one fan commented.

"He was horrible. Can't believe he has that job. Many pitches in the same location were randomly called either balls or strikes," another wrote.

Yeah this is a valid crashout. 3 straight balls called strikes is unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/UMKvhgttuo
— MetsMuse (@MetsMuse) July 6, 2025

Overall, though, Bacon did post a 92% ball-strike accuracy on the day, 2.5% above his expected accuracy, which seems to not be in line with fan outrage.

Anger towards umpires seems to spike towards the end of ballgames, and Bacon certainly generated controversy in the ninth inning of the Sunday's final game of this year's Subway Series.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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