{"id":186922,"date":"2025-10-03T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186922\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:29:10","slug":"padres-bogaerts-says-strikeout-call-messed-up-whole-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186922\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres’ Bogaerts says strikeout call ‘messed up’ whole game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Count Xander Bogaerts<\/a> among those looking forward to Major League Baseball’s new challenge system for balls and strikes next season.<\/p>\n

The San Diego Padres<\/a> shortstop just wishes it were in place a little earlier.<\/p>\n

Bogaerts struck out looking on a pitch that appeared out of the strike zone during the ninth inning of the team’s 3-1 loss<\/a> to the Cubs<\/a> in Game 3 of the National League Wild Card Series on Thursday in Chicago.<\/p>\n

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The call came at a critical time.<\/p>\n

The Cubs carried a 3-0 lead into the ninth inning, but Jackson Merrill<\/a> led off with a home run off Brad Keller<\/a> to cut San Diego’s deficit to 3-1 and bring Bogaerts to the plate. On a 3-2 count, Keller’s 97 mph fastball appeared to miss the zone low, causing Bogaerts to crouch down in disbelief at the call and Padres manager Mike Shildt to race out of the dugout.<\/p>\n

Keller then hit Ryan O’Hearn<\/a> and Bryce Johnson<\/a> with pitches. Had Bogaerts walked, the Padres could have had the bases loaded with no outs. Instead, Andrew Kittredge<\/a> came on with two runners on and one out and retired the next two batters, allowing the Cubs to advance to play the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> in the next round.<\/p>\n

Bogaerts didn’t mince words after the game when asked about the apparent missed call by plate umpire D.J. Reyburn.<\/p>\n

“Talk about it now: What do you want me to do?” Bogaerts said, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>. “It’s a ball. Messed up the whole game, you know? I mean, can’t go back in time, and talking about it now won’t change anything. So it was bad, and thank God for ABS next year because this is terrible.”<\/p>\n

The automated ball-strike system will be implemented in the majors next season<\/a> after years of testing in the minors as well as during spring training and at this year’s All-Star Game. The MLB competition committee voted last month to give teams two challenges per game using ABS if they believe a call by the plate umpire is wrong.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s ending soured a 90-win season for San Diego, which made the playoffs for the fourth time in six seasons. It has not made it past the NL Championship Series during this recent run.<\/p>\n

“We had a lot of fun,” Bogaerts said. “We competed with each other. We had guys that got injuries, a lot of guys stepped up. We traded for some really great people at the deadline. … It was fun until today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Count Xander Bogaerts among those looking forward to Major League Baseball’s new challenge system for balls and strikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-186922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}