Buster Posey has a very good eye.
He has never struck out more than 100 times in a season. This year, he has swung at 25.1 percent of pitches outside the strike zone, well below the league average of 31.0 percent. His career on-base percentage (.372) ranks No. 12 among active qualified MLB players, and it's in the top-15 all-time among catchers.
You get the point. On Monday night, Posey's sharp eye was on display as usual, which is typically a good thing... but apparently not when Angel Hernandez is behind the plate.
According to Twitter account Umpire Auditor, the pitch was not one, not two, not three, but four inches (and some change) outside of the strike zone.
According to Ump Scorecards, Hernandez is 92.3 percent accurate, good for just the 15th percentile among MLB umpires this season. And though there isn't a metric for this, we'd have to assume he's in the 99.9th percentile for inaccurate third strike calls with his error on Monday night.
As it turned out, Posey wasn't the only victim of Hernandez's apparently expanded strike zone on Monday, with Trevor Bauer getting another backwards K on a pitch up in the zone to Mike Yastrzemski.
But as much as Bauer was a benefactor of some of Hernandez's calls throughout the game, the Dodgers hurler still wasn't safe from a meticulous foreign substance check as he exited the field.
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