Home-plate umpire emphatically rings up Jose Reyes, realizes it was only strike two
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While we're all grateful to have actual baseball back in our lives, we also understand that Spring Training will be a little, er, sloppy at times. Jerseys get forgotten. Outfielders execute belly flops.
And the same holds true for umpires. After all, they have to get back in the swing of things too -- it's been a while since they've had to determine safe or out, call balls and strikes or, in the case of home-plate umpire Chris Segal during Monday's Mets-Astros game, keep track of the count:
Say what you will, but you have to respect the effort to cover up the initial emphatic strike three -- the improvisational ability is in midseason form.