Boston Red Sox’s Kevin Plawecki on missed call: ‘It at least cost us one (run). It stinks. Terrible’

ATLANTA — House plate umpire Adam Beck known as out Kevin Plawecki on strikes to finish the highest of the sixth inning Wednesday.

Atlanta reliever Collin McHugh’s 89 mph cutter landed well below the strike zone and will have been ball 4 to pressure in a run with the bases loaded.

As an alternative of Boston taking a 4-3 lead, the sport remained tied. The Purple Sox ultimately misplaced 5-3 when Orlando Arcia bashed a two-run walkoff homer towards Ryan Brasier within the ninth right here at Truist Park.

“Only a horrible name,” Plawecki stated.

Plawecki stated he seemed on the location of the pitch proper when he returned to the clubhouse.

“I didn’t want to take a look at it,” Plawecki stated. “However simply to see it. Yeah, no person thought it was a strike, even on the opposite aspect. Simply watching the replay even, it was type of a late name. No matter. It’s simply irritating. It provides to the frustration of the grind we’re on proper now. What are you able to do? Flip the web page and we transfer on.”

Each Plawecki and supervisor Alex Cora have been ejected for arguing the decision.

“It at the least value us one run, proper, if no more,” Plawecki stated. “However it at the least value us one. It stinks. Horrible.”

Plawecki fell behind within the depend 0-2 however then labored the depend full.

“We talked about as a bunch grinding out ABs,” Plawecki stated. “We did one other good job of that tonight. Thought I put a superb one collectively. Went 0-2, 3-2. Ball out of the hand, it ended up a ball. Known as a strike. So it value us a run. I don’t need to say it misplaced us the sport. I’m not going to say that however it value us a run and it modified the trajectory of the sport.”

Plawecki, who fired down his helmet, stated he didn’t say sufficient to the umpire to obtain such a fast ejection.

“Not sufficient to get tossed as quickly as I did,” Plawecki stated. “I do know I threw my helmet. However that’s not what received me tossed. A reasonably fast hook. However he’ll see that the ball was down. I believed he had a fairly good zone all night time. Once I was again there with Nate (Eovaldi), I believed he did a terrific job. I do know he’s human identical to us. However in that scenario, in that spot, let’s be higher than that.”

It marked Cora’s second ejection up to now 4 video games. He additionally received tossed from Boston’s recreation towards the White Sox on Saturday for arguing balls and strikes.

“In that second it was an enormous play, massive name and it value us a run,” Plawecki stated. “We’ll by no means know what the result would have been if it was known as the precise approach. However we transfer on, flip the web page.”

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