Catchers are flying out of MLB games at an alarming rate

WOW!! I thought the Yadier Molina ejection vs. the Giants the other night was bad. This one is worse.

from Business Insider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/umpires-ejection-of-pirates-catcher-is-one-of-the-worst-you-will-ever-see-2013-6?

Umpire rule of thumb -- you can strike a ball (hell Greg Maddux is in the HOF because of this half of the rule) but NEVER ball a strike. And yeah, if the catcher didn't turn and face the ump, he didn't show him up unless he used a "magic" word.

Here we balled two.



Pitch f/x data via BrooksBaseball.net

Although given the rest of the article, one of them may have been an "F.U." call, which is different from a "M.U." call. Suffice to say, I can't explain one without the other and I can't explain the first one without using language that Mrs. TheSlav doesn't approve of. So that should explain it.

HINT: One is a Make Up call and the other one is the opposite of a make -up call and the "U" should be a "Y' anyway. Hopefully, that helps. If it doesn't, you need to get out more often and stop reading blogs.

He was apparently giving  'em the old F.U. when perhaps he should have been gently applying the old Make-Up call. The hitter would have understood. He would have been right where he should have been as far as the count goes.

And the catcher would have stayed in the game. Catchers seem to be getting the heave-ho more often than I can remember in the past. Maybe it's the heat.