With the MLB season winding down, tensions are beginning to tense up as teams have an eye toward the start of the 2023 pennant race. Not only are the players ratcheting up their intensity, but so are the umpires, as seen by home plate umpire Ramon DeJesus during this sequence:
Bases loaded. Team fighting for the postseason. Ump show pic.twitter.com/3v0y0IrJup
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DeJesus called Miami Marlins third baseman Jake Burger striking out looking on what he felt was a questionable call in a pivotal at-bat with the Marlins and New York Mets tied 2-2 in the top of the seventh inning. After looking at Dejesus in disbelief for the call he just made, Burger was tossed from the game.
It was a pivotal strike-three call with the bases loaded late in the game that had the Marlins in position to take the lead, but it was all for not on a pitch that seemed to be outside of the batter’s box. Luckily for Burger and the Marlins, that sequence didn’t impact the team’s ability to win the game.
With just four games to go, the Marlins are 82-76 and currently tied with the Chicago Cubs for the third and final spot in the NL Wild Card race. They have one final game to wrap up this four-game series against the Mets before traveling to Pittsburgh to face the Pirates in their final three games of the season.
