Angel Hernandez botches call in ninth inning of Rangers-Twins game

Angel Hernandez by no means appears to turn out to be a trending matter due to an excellent strike name.

Baseball followers’ least-favorite umpire goes viral once more, this time in a sport during which he wasn’t even behind the plate.

Hernandez was the third-base umpire in Texas for Rangers-Twins on Friday evening when Minnesota’s Byron Buxton stepped to the plate within the ninth inning with the Twins down a run.

Buxton bounced a ball down the road that went immediately over the bag and hit the chalk previous it — a good ball — and bounded off the glove of Texas’ Josh Smith. Buxton possible would have had a double and represented the tying run at second base with out an out.

Besides Hernandez known as it a foul ball.

For his half, Hernandez seemed to be screened by Smith, whose physique blocked Hernandez’s imaginative and prescient. Nonetheless, there will need to have been some frustration from Buxton and the Twins, as Main League Baseball doesn't enable groups to problem these calls.

Buxton later struck out, and the Twins couldn't rally, dropping 6-5.

Different umpires is perhaps forgiven for the transgression. Hernandez, the longtime umpire who has turn out to be a face of fan frustration and poor calls, doesn't typically get the good thing about the doubt.

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