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If Major League Baseball really
is carefully evaluating umpires,
Ron Kulpa had better start looking for a new line of work. Tonight's home-plate umpire in the Red Sox-Yankee game was
so bad, that
both sides were squawking at a strike zone as wide as the Panama Canal Zone. With the bases loaded and the Red Sox trailing 3-2 in the ninth, Kulpa called strikes on what were two
clear ball fours on
David Ortiz—sending him into a fury. Protecting his DH, Manager
John Farrell got tossed. Papi also got tossed and
Hanley Ramirez struck out to end the game, with
Boston losing, 3-2. Game. Set. Match—
crappy umpiring. The Sox squandered multiple opportunities all night—so they
somewhat deserved to lose—but not like this. Commissioner
Rob Manfred has
got to fire this completely incompetent umpire.
