data-mm-id=”_c8ubuymnj”>We've been over this before, but C.B. Bucknor is among the worst umpires working in Major League Baseball. In fact, we had him No. 2 in our ranking of the worst MLB umps. On Saturday, he verified our ranking and made a mockery of the game. Bucknor was working behind the plate as the Cleveland Guardians faced the Tampa Bay Rays. He made a number of awful calls, including one involving the pitch clock. With two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning, Guardians second baseman Andres Gimenez was at the plate, facing Rays pitcher Zack Littell. With an 0-2 count, Gimenez used his timeout. The problem? Bucknor forgot to reset the pitch clock. As Gimenez stepped back in the clock was already running out and Bucknor ruled that Littell wasn't ready to go and issued an automatic ball for a pitch clock violation. Rays manager Kevin Cash raced from the dugout to explain what happened to the veteran umpire and wound up getting ejected for his trouble. Umpire C.B. Bucknor forgot to reset the pitch clock after a #Guardians batter timeout, called a clock violation on the #Rays, and ejected Kevin Cash.The batter wasn't ready to hit until 2 seconds were left and Bucknor still called a pitch violation on the Rays./1 pic.twitter.com/BADHiFWGy9— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) September 3, 2023Bucknor could have asked for help from his fellow umpires, and fixed the call, but that would have meant admitting he was wrong and that was never going to happen. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Bo Naylor was at the plate on a 2-1 count. Jake Diekman threw a fastball on the outer half and Bucknor rung Naylor up and yelled "strike three." Obviously, it was only the second strike. C.B. Bucknor also called 7 strikes on pitches that missed by 2+ inches including one that missed 5.83 inches outside. pic.twitter.com/cgCDBnNkEK— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) September 3, 2023As the second video in the sequence shows, Bucknor was also awful at ball-strike calls on the night, calling strikes on seven pitches that missed by two or more inches. That's horrendous. Here's his full scorecard for the day. It's not pretty. Umpire: CB BucknorFinal in 11: Rays 6, Guardians 7#RaysUp // #ForTheLand#TBvsCLE // #CLEvsTBMore stats for this game 👇https://t.co/qwyl5zQ0TL pic.twitter.com/Z4phTlrhm0— Umpire Scorecards (@UmpScorecards) September 3, 2023The analysis says he favored Cleveland by +1.26 runs. Guess what? The Guardians won 7-6 in extra innings. Major League Baseball really needs to reassess how it handles umpires because this kind of stuff is happening consistently and it's completely unacceptable.
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