Yu Darvish really got hosed by umpire Chris Segal on Wednesday night.
Darvish was facing Max Muncy to start the bottom of the second inning of Game 2 of the NLDS between his San Diego Padres and Muncy’s Los Angeles Dodgers. Darvish got Muncy 0-2 and then threw a slow curve that froze the Dodgers slugger.
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Muncy was so fooled that he did not swing at the pitch, which crossed the plate at the top of the strike zone.
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Umpire Segal was so fooled too that he didn’t call the pitch a strike either.
Rather than Muncy going down with a strike out looking, that pitch was called a ball, extending the at-bat. Muncy then hit two foul balls and worked a 2-2 count before homering to right field to put the Dodgers up 2-1.
That was a completely blown call by Segal that would have retired Muncy and ended the at-bat earlier. It’s not easy to strike out good hitters in the playoffs. Segal was making Darvish strike out Muncy twice in the same at-bat.
