00:00Well, C.B. Buckner on Saturday had himself a day.
00:05Unbelievable.
00:06He's been in the major leagues now for 30 years, C.B. Buckner.
00:10And in player polls over the years, Sports Illustrated used to do them anonymously.
00:16They routinely, as players, voted C.B. Buckner as the worst umpire in Major League Baseball.
00:23He had six calls overturned as part of ABS on Saturday, including back-to-back pitches in the sixth inning
00:31with Eugenio Suarez at the dish.
00:37It's bad when it's back-to-back.
00:39I don't even understand what we're doing here.
00:41There were eight total challenges in the game.
00:44Five of them were by the Reds.
00:46Three of them were by the Red Sox.
00:48All five of the Reds' challenges hit.
00:50Unbelievable.
00:51It's ridiculous.
00:52Five.
00:54The Red Sox did not do as well.
00:56They went one for three.
00:58But when Trevor Story in that clip gets called out on a check swing on a strike three in the
01:03eighth inning, there's two outs.
01:05Alex Cora absolutely explodes because he just knows that that guy sucks.
01:10And then he was ejected.
01:11But it did check swing.
01:13The fact that Story didn't get ejected in that moment told you everything you needed to know.
01:16C.B. Buckner knew he was garbage all day.
01:18He knew that was a stupid move.
01:20When have you seen Story get in an ump's face like that and a player doesn't get ejected?
01:23And the player is back out at shortstop two minutes later playing.
01:26He was charging at him while getting pulled away.
01:28Yeah.
01:28Doesn't he have to go down the line?
01:30Don't you have to go to first base umpire or third base umpire?
01:31You should.
01:32You have to.
01:33So it's very rare that the whole play in umpire calls check swing.
01:36He has the worst view of anyone in the ballpark.
01:39But it was a check swing.
01:41He didn't swing.
01:42He definitely didn't swing.
01:44It wasn't a check swing.
01:45But you can't tell me that ABS didn't play a role in him not checking with first base.
01:50He was getting shown up so much he was injecting himself into the game.
01:54I would agree with that.
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