Yankees broadcaster Michael Kay was “flabbergasted” on the official scorekeeper’s choice to alter an error to a success and finish Max Fried’s bid for a no-hitter.
Kay was incredulous as he introduced to the YES Community viewers that official scorer Invoice Matthews had modified how the bottom ball that Rays outfielder Chandler Simpson had hit within the backside of the sixth inning, from what was initially dominated an error on Paul Goldschmidt to a success.
“No you didn’t miss a batter. I am absolutely flabbergasted, ladies and gentlemen,” Kay got here out of a business break saying. “The scorekeeper right here at Steinbrenner Area, a person by the title of Invoice Matthews, has modified the Simpson E3 into a success whereas the Yankees have been within the dugout. Simply unfathomable.
“Either you call it when it happens, you don’t wait three innings to go by. It’s just unbelievable. … [Matthews] is going to have a lot of questions thrown at him and he’s going to have to give some pretty good answers. I can’t believe this has happened.”
Fried gave up a success to begin the underside of the eighth inning and successfully rendered the scoring change inconsequential in the long run.
The Yankees’ pitcher ended up throwing 7 ⅔ innings whereas solely permitting two hits and the Bronx Bombers got here away with the win, 4-0, over the Rays.
Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated that “the reality is it was a hit” when he spoke with reporters after the chaotic recreation.
“I scratch my head at the official scorers nightly,” Boone advised reporters. “They throw an error at Yankee Stadium up on the board at Yankee Stadium and then we go to these other places and they can fire up a hit with the best of them. It’s a different game in every other park, it really is.”
The Yanks’ skipper did add that the scorers do have a “thankless job,” however did reiterate that he had “some issues” once in a while with how issues are scored.
Sunday wasn’t the primary time that the Rays’ official scorer had discovered himself within the highlight over a play that he scored.
Again in 2011, Matthews had dominated a play a success relatively than an error whereas Felix Hernandez was throwing a no-hitter for the Mariners towards Tampa, which ended that bid within the eighth inning, in response to a Seattle Instances article.
Just like Fried’s scenario, the potential controversy was considerably diminished when the Rays recorded one other hit later that inning.
