

On Friday, he couldn’t keep Bryson Stott’s second-inning hit from getting past him and it reached the wall for a double.

He made a throwing error and lost a ball in the sun in San Diego’s 8-5 victory in Game 2 on Wednesday. Soto has struggled in right field in this series, too.

231, but has gone 13 consecutive games dating to the regular season without a home run. Padres star slugger Juan Soto went 1 for 3, raising his postseason average this year to. It’s purely an umpire’s judgment - and judgment calls are not reviewable under MLB’s replay rules. No need to check it out in the Official Baseball Rules: In the almost 200 pages that govern Major League Baseball, there’s no mention of how to call it. After the game, first-base umpire Gabe Morales, who made the call on an appeal from the plate ump, seemed to waver on whether he got it right.Ĭheck swings have long been a much-debated part of baseball.įor a pitch to be a strike, does the hitter have to “break his wrists” trying to hold up? Is it when the bat goes in front of the plate? Is it based on the batter’s intent?
