Poor MLB The show’s call instantly brings Angel Hernandez to mind for viewers
You’d think that watching MLB The Show would protect baseball fans from poor calls a la Angel Hernandez. It would be erroneous to assume that.
Was a terrible call made by MLB The Show’s artificial intelligence somehow a channel for the real-life Angel Hernandez? A recent screenshot from the video game depicts a call that only Hernandez could ostensibly make so horribly.
Check out the video below from a game between the Cleveland Guardians and the Oakland A’s that aired on MLB The Show. This call might take home the trophy for the worst in a video game, if such a thing exists.
After a terrible MLB The Show call, Angel Hernandez is unable to shake his bad image
Due to an oversized strike zone, Hernandez was back to his old tricks in real life on Saturday during a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, making his name trend on Twitter during the first inning of the game.
Hernandez has obviously been a social media trend on several occasions this season. Rewind to April 24, when Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN featured a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Milwaukee Brewers.
When Hernandez was behind the plate in that game’s ninth inning, Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber faced former Brewers closer Josh Hader and was struck out.
It didn’t take long for Schwarber to give one of the most memorable and illustrative justifications for how poor Hernandez’s strike zone frequently is, even at the most crucial moments of the game, after the strike three call.
The Phillies, by the way, would go to lose that game by a 1-0 score.
Hernandez called balls and strikes correctly 88 percent of the time in the Philadelphia game.The reaction was clearly out of whack, and the fact that the MLB average is 94 percent demonstrates why Schwarber had a point with his reaction.
If MLB The Show’s creators were attempting to simulate the possibility of questionable calls when Angel Hernandez is on the field, they surely succeeded admirably.
