And the Winning Pitcher of Tonight’s 18-Inning Nail-Biter in Milwaukee was… Angel Hernandez!

 


Angel Hernandez: Looks mighty white to me, but he’s a “person of color” when being so pays race game points
 

By Nicholas Stix
Corrected at 2:26 a.m.

Anyone who follows big league baseball knows that Angel Hernandez is not a pitcher, but rather an affirmative action umpire who is one of the two most incompetent in the game.

Tonight, the Mets were in Milwaukee, playing to get back above .500. Their bats were silent, and shortstop Amed Rosario was having yet another meltdown on the field (two official errors, and at least one more, for which the official scorer gave him a welfare check) but their pitchers were doing a good job.

Finally, in the top of the 18th inning, Mets leftfielder Jeff McNeil knocked in the go-ahead run off Brewers’ reliever, Taylor Williams.

Chris Flexen, the Mets’ last relief pitcher, was pitching in the bottom of the 18th.

Flexen lost the strike zone against Mike Moustakas and Yasmani Grandal, and walked both, putting men on first and second, with one out. But then, against struggling slugger Travis Shaw, Flexen threw strike after strike, while Hernandez called ball after ball. Even ball four, which was a close call, the Pitchcast graphic showed was a strike. At least two previous pitches to Shaw, which Hernandez had called balls, were no-doubters. Flexen threw at least four strikes to Shaw.

The bases were now full of Brewers. Mets substitute announcer Todd Zeile said Hernandez was forcing Flexen to throw to “a strike zone the size of a …” [unclear, but the equivalent of a postage stamp].

The only way Hernandez was going to call a strike for Flexen, would be for the latter to throw batting practice-type pitches, right down the middle, which was a recipe for a Brewers victory. And that’s just what Flexen did with the next Brewers batter, Ryan Braun.

Although Braun had been barely hitting .200 when the series began, he was beating Mets pitchers like a drum, and was 5-for-7 in last night’s game, as he got in the batter’s box.

Flexen threw Braun a fat strike, Braun hit a line drive to right field, and two runners scored, to give the Brewers a 3-2 victory.

Why did Hernandez deliberately sabotage the game? Only he knows the answer to that question, but there can be no doubt that he did sabotage the game.

The man is in his 29th season as a plague on baseball. He never had any business getting hired to be an ump, and he should have been fired a generation ago, but that’s the way AA works. Oh, and did I mention that he is suing the Lords of Baseball for “discrimination”? That’s right. The man who owes his entire career to racial discrimination, claims to be a victim of it.

“W” and I wrote about him last year:

N.S.: Angel Hernandez is in his 28th season as a big-league umpire. During all that time, he has been notorious as one of the two worst umps in the game, the other being black AA hire C.B. Bucknor (who is the worst), but Hernandez’ terrible performance has not hurt his career in the least. That is because he was an affirmative action hire, to begin with. Thus, the Lords of Baseball never expected competence, let alone excellence from him. But no alleged sportswriter (with the possible exception of the Post’s Phil Mushnick) will say the obvious.

Hernandez is so outrageous that, while he in fact only has his job thanks to discrimination, he went so far last year [2017] as to assert that he is the “victim” of discrimination….

[“Sports Propagandist Aggregates Angel Hernandez Stories, but Refuses to Tell the Story.”]