On Tuesday night, it was a bit shocking that New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone didn’t get ejected from the team’s Subway Series game against the Mets. Boone, who already has four ejections on the season, has often argued balls and strikes and Tuesday night would’ve been no exception as umpire Rob Drake had a rather controversial strike zone.
As highlighted by the Twitter account Umpire Scorecards, which rates each home plate umpire’s performance after every Major League Baseball Game, Rob Drake had a rough performance behind home plate on Tuesday night.
According to Umpire Scorecards, Drake was just 87 percent accurate and 91 percent consistent during Tuesday night’s game, which is well below the league average in both categories and 4.5% below what would be expected in terms of accuracy. He also called just 80% of called strikes correctly, compared to the league average of 88%.
Umpire: Rob Drake
Final: Yankees 7, Mets 6#RepBX // #LGM#NYYvsNYM // #NYMvsNYYMore stats for this game 👇https://t.co/pNnYMFy8Bk pic.twitter.com/HMj73Fdr53
— Umpire Scorecards (@UmpScorecards) June 14, 2023
As a result of his poor performance, Umpire Scorecards estimates that the Mets benefitted about o.73 runs in the game. Though, the Mets were on the wrong end of Drake’s most impactful missed call. In a 2-2 count with runners on first and second, Starling Marte took a called strike three to end a Mets scoring threat in the bottom of the sixth inning. That pitch, according to Umpire Scorecards, should’ve been a ball.
According to Umpire Auditor, Drake called the fifth worst game of the season.
There have been 1007 games this season and umpire Rob Drake called the 5th worst of the season tonight in the #Yankees #Mets game.
He missed 24 calls for a correct call rate of only 85%. pic.twitter.com/TxRPVF38Mt
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) June 14, 2023
It was a less-than-stellar performance from the umpire, and those in the world of Major League Baseball world had plenty to say about it on social media:
It’s hard for me to believe it was even this “good” https://t.co/mu4Y3mXDxU
— Yankees Files (@YankeesFiles) June 14, 2023
I frequently watch games where in the moment it feels bad but the ump scorecard comes out the day after and it was better than I thought. Not this time. This one felt bad in the moment because it WAS bad 💀 https://t.co/tVRJALKhEH
— Sayom! (@SayomGD) June 14, 2023
https://twitter.com/steveschechter/status/1669010585302839296?s=20
#MLB needs to start holding umpires accountable and suspending guys for these performances.
80% called strikes accurately. 80! Dude is literally missing 1 out every 5 strikes. A fifth of strikes hes getting wrong.
I didn’t do well in school so I know thats a B-. Unacceptable https://t.co/tNEl1l4Tdn
— Vince (@vincepaz1230) June 14, 2023
This was the product rolled out for a nationally televised game.
— excusetheping (@excusetheping) June 14, 2023
[Umpire Scorecards and Umpire Auditor on Twitter] Image from Rick Scuteri/USA TODAY Sports
About Sam Neumann
Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. He also has a love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and Jets.