Umpires love their over-the-top strikeout calls. And Doosan Bears catcher Yang Eui-ji recently was the victim of a punch to the head from a Korea Baseball Organization umpire, thanks to an animated strike call.
The catcher was fine so we can just laugh at this one:
Strikeout Call of the Day featuring Doosan's Yang Eui-ji getting hit in the back of the head by the ump pic.twitter.com/XFWvNLWB2n
— Dan Kurtz (@MyKBO) June 14, 2018
A few more replays of the punch out in this clip 👊
— Dan Kurtz (@MyKBO) June 14, 2018
It’s surprising that doesn’t happen more.
And here’s a compilation of umpires making emphatic strikeout calls:
https://youtu.be/21r3gNP00bw
