Chandler Simpson is probably the fastest player in baseball. At least, the 24-year-old midfielder is one of the few major league players at 80-year speed, a player who stole 104 bases in 110 games in two minor league docks last year. On the second day of his debut in the Light, Simpson's speed got caught in a controversial game against the Yankees on Sunday at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa as he broke Max Fried's inspiration…trace back. This may not even be the game's most controversial call, as Aaron Judge lost a noticeable home run on the towering fly ball, which was ruled as a foul even after the replay review.
Fried hit the rays for 5 1/3 innings when he faced Simpson for the second time in the bottom of the sixth. At 2-2, Simpson reached a 78.6 mph ground between first and second bases. Yankees first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is a four-time Gold Glove title, with a range over his right, but as he did, it strays off the glove's heels towards second base. Simpson arrived safely.
The play started out as a mistake on Goldschmidt, and Fried continued, retiring five of the next six batsmen – the exception being when he grazed Curtis Mead’s right foot with a sweeper – keeping the rays in seven innings as the Yankees extended their lead to 3-0. When the 31-year-old left-handed took eighth place, the official scorer had turned around his previous decision, eliminated Goldschmidt's mistakes, handed the Simpson's name and ended Fried's no-tick bid.
In the news box, scorer Bill Mathews explained on the intercom: “It's obvious that the runners will beat any throws.” Given Simpson's hit speed and distance from Goldschmidt hits, it's a completely fair assertion. The pitcher did win the trail when he cleanly kicked Simpson's grounder and blew the ball in the third inning. While that ground ball is slower (52.6 mph), Goldschmidt has more time to position his body as a shot.
When asked to explain his reversal further, Matthews added: “I made the decision,” but refused to clarify.
Matthews is actually a center of controversy about potentially hit-free. On June 13, 2012, in the first inning of the game between the Rays and the Mets, BJ Upton hit a slow roller under the third baseline David Wright tried to reveal. Matthews scored. Starter RA Dickey continued to retire, with the next 22 batsmen, knocking out 12 out of the game without getting another blow. After the game, the Mets appealed to Major League Baseball domination, but MLB executive vice president Joe Torre maintained the call. Dickey is ambivalent about the possibility of a call being overturned, a possibility that conference manager Terry Collins estimates less than 5%. “It's weird. I don't know if this would be that satisfying,” the pitcher said. “I think the asterisk without hits would be more attention than the one without hits.
On Sunday's Yes Network broadcast, Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay called himself “absolutely shocking” in the reversal timing of Simpson's game, analyst Todd Frazier said even if the call was ultimately right, analyst Todd Frazier said score changes were allowed even at that focus.
“It's just incredible. Either call it when it happens or you don't wait for three innings. It's incredible.”
“It's one of those situations, something you have to stick to,” Fraser said.
While I can understand why Kay and Frazier were upset, I disagree with their position. Ideally, you want any team’s first hit to be a clean game to remove any doubts about potentially hitless, but retrospective scoring changes are not uncommon to the point where the game goes beyond pale – not even after the game, like Upton’s call might. Furthermore, the broad consensus is that Matthews' rule is correct.
It made sense soon after the change, as Fried allowed Jake Mangum to clean singles to lead the eighth place. He retired two batsmen and left, second in the Simpson, who beat Mangum 4-6 and then defeated Reliever Fernando Cruz. He ended up stranding there, with the Yankees winning 4-0.
When asked about the score change later, Fried said he didn't realize it until he quit the game. “I don't know,” he told reporters. “I looked up and saw two hits. That's it. I'm glad we got the win.”
“I don’t think Max cares about this kind of thing,” the judge said as he inquired about the change. “He was worried about going there, helping the team, helping us win. He threw a heckuva game, so I think he's happy to win.”
Fried never completed accessibility as a professional, but he had several contacts. He threw the first 5 2/3 innings for A-Level Fort Wayne when he was a Padres farmer in 2013. While on the Braves, he was pulled after five innings and 66 goals against the Marlins on September 4, 2022, then twice at the start of three last year, against the Mariners (6 innings, 100 innings, 100 innings) on April 29, and then against the Mets on May 11 (7 innings, 109 innings, 109 innings). Rescuers then surrendered in these three matches.
Manager Aaron Boone didn’t know the change in the score until after Mangum was hit, but he had a reasonable excuse as he was popped up in eighth place. The judge was defeated on the border court, but Boone's dander was that the slugger appeared to be robbed on the Titanic fly ball on the left field line and there were more below. Boone's reversal against the Simpson game doesn't sound too frustrated. pass New York Daily News'Gary Phillips:
“Look, we won't beat it [Simpson] Aaron Boone said he said his changes took a long time without any problems. But the reality is, it's very popular. ”
Boone said he would send Fried even if he knew the reversal, who threw 92 goals in seven innings and returned to the eighth inning, especially considering his bullpen was a little short. When asked about Fried's stadium number still intact, he said: “I probably won't let him go to 120 today.” “I'm not sure[ly] Yes, if he was in eighth place, wherever he was, there would be a conversation. I think he's a little angry. ”
Although Fried allowed only two hits to hit him twice, he hit only two hits, only three waves (47 swings), while 17 hits the strike at 20% speed. The rays brought him 10 fierce balls, although only Mangum's 102.8 mph liner turned into a hit. The Rays right fielder also hit a 96.2 mph fly ball, with center fielder Trent Grisham running down the gap between the right center before falling to the ground and shooting a second time, where he doubled Danny Jansen.
“I think it’s annoyance for him,” said Fried’s Boone. “I thought it took him a while to find his secondary stuff today. He only hit two, but he did a great job on the fastball. Sinking pieces, four slits, add, subtract, move around.”
For a team that lost this season's Gerrit Cole due to Tommy John's surgery, it's just learned that Luis Gil's throwing progress was delayed as he recovered from Lat's recovery, and Fried was the gosh. Through five games, his 1.42 ERA ranked fourth in the American League and his 2.91 FIP tenth. Although he only hit 22.7% of the batsmen, he walked just 5.3%, allowing only 0.57 home runs per 9 hits; the last two points also ranked in the top ten in the AL.
Strangely, frying didn't produce as many ground tools as usual. Last year, his Grand Slam rate was the second highest ground ball rate (58.8%), but this year, despite his sinking slabs being more frequent (19.8%, higher than 16.2%), he hit 50%. The course has a fry rate of 66.7% this year, 65.5% historically. Meanwhile, the batsman has an average exit speed of 87.6 mph and a hard hit against Fried (his top score) of 37%. Warts and all, he remains the Yankees' most effective starter. Carlos Rodón, Carlos Carrasco, Will Warren, Marcus Stroman and Clarke Schmidt – the last missed out on the season's debut after the start of the season with a tortuous tendonitis, with eras of 4.34 or higher for all eras of 4.34 or higher, and except for Schmidt, Schmidt, Fips of 4.37 or 4.37 or higher.
As for the judges game, George M. Steinbrenner Field’s foul shot (the Yankees’ spring training facility and Class A court forced to serve due to hurricane damage to Tropicana Field) is shorter than the major league field, so it may be more difficult for the Umpires to see whether the judge is fair in real time. Here is what the ray stall calls an explosion:
Here is my frame grabbing of the clip in 50 to 52 seconds, with the ball highlighted:
Not only did the referee missed the call, but he was not overturned even if the crew asked for a replay. “It’s a home run,” Boone said, reviewing the replay room’s drive at the post-match media availability conference. “However, this didn't go…I got the towering high, but then it was replayed. I don't think they could find enough [that was] conclusive. Therefore, we must be closely related to the phone. ”
Even a graduate of the Derek Jeter Diplomacy Academy, the judge even shook his head in the call of the moment. “It’s a fair ball,” he said later. “But that's why we're replaying. It's not in the referee; it's difficult when you're in a minor league park with a foul pole that's not that high, so that's why you're replaying. They have all angles.
“I think everyone is scratching their heads, but [there’s] I can do nothing. They missed it and I just had to keep moving forward. ”
The home run was originally the eighth place for the judge, tied him for third with Mike Trout, behind Cal Raleigh and Tyler Sodstrom. This won't change the game's results, but it might mean something about the player who set 62 home runs in 2022 and hit 58 last year, and set a single season AL/NL record for right-handed batsman WRC+ (218), although it fell early. He's playing for 51 home runs now and hit a ridiculous .390/.495/.707 (243 WRC+), but if the drama was dominated by a home run, he would have had 59 home runs, a more extreme slash.
In the end, none of the official scorers’ rulings on the Simpson Drama made clear the home run’s referee turnover in the Yankees’ victory, which lifted them 14-8 and maintained two games at the top of Al East. Hopefully we won't look back at the non-Ham later this season while wondering what will happen.
