 In the first week of the MLB season, we had two situations where the same problem arose and we got opposite ends of the situation. You can see Torkelson's up right now and they're pitching him up and in and that one hits him. Angel Hernandez says foul tip. He thinks it hit the knob of the bat. He says, no, it hit me in my hands. Hinge says, hold on. This breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. I forgot to let you know that. Hinge says, hold on, hold on. We're gonna check it out because my dude says it hits him in the hands. So we'd like to review it. Torkelson's on first base saying, yeah. No, it got me in the hand. I can feel it. I feel it. So Hinge says, we wanna replay. We wanna replay. And now the second base on him says, hey, did you call a swing? And Angel Hernandez like, yeah, I had a swing. He's like, you had a swing? Yeah. And they're like, well, okay, we can't go to review then. Yeah. You can't review a swing call in Major League Baseball. It's a non-reviewable play. Don't know why they have those, but they do. So because it's called a swing, they can't challenge it and they can't go to replay. So Hinge comes out and he says, he had a swing. He says, who has a swing? No way. Angel, you had a swing? No way. What are you talking about? And Angel says, yeah, I had a swing. He's like, no, no, no, no. You can't have a swing. He didn't swing. He said, that's why you go to help from first base. You have to get help from first base. Now he's saying that you gotta ask the umpire down at first base. Was that a swing or not on Czech swings? Don't just call it yourself. You know, which the umpires by the rule book, if they think it's a swing, they're supposed to make that call themselves. I don't really like that because you're supposed to be watching the ball. Just go get help when you can. And then they're still arguing about it. Angel turns to the batter and he says, it hits you when you swung. Yeah. And he's gonna say, if you swing and it hits you, it's a strike. That's kind of a key right here because he's saying that he does think it hit his hand but he was swinging. So initially I thought he called foul tip because he thought it was the knob of the bat. I would defend Angel Hernandez if that was the situation. He thought he heard the knob of the bat. I would defend him there. And I was ready to until I went back and rewatch it. And he's saying here that he says, no, if it hits you in your hand, it's a strike. If you swing and it hits you, it's a strike. So he knows that it hit his hand. He's saying it hit his hand while he was swinging. Yeah, it was a swing. It's a swing. So there's only one major problem with that. This isn't a swing in the slightest. The bat, look at the bat. This is as far as it goes. It's not an attempt to strike the ball. It's just a little flinch, not a swing. So I'm upset that Angel said, if it hits you while you swing, it's a strike. I would have loved if Angel said, I thought it hit the knob of the bat. So I called it a foul tip. That's pretty normal. I would defend him there. But unfortunately, now I have to show this video of his eyes closing, which is a very human reaction and normal, but also don't be so adamant about the swing call when your eyes are closing. And that's why the home plate umpire shouldn't call swings. They should just watch the ball into the glove and when it hits the glove, they stop. Look, that's a knob of the bat and that's a foul ball. And no one's gonna argue that, because that's normal to call it a foul ball when it hits the knob of the bat like that. So if Angel had done that, I would have said, yeah, okay, it sucks that you can't review it. That's replay's fault and MLB's fault for not making it a reviewable play. But it's totally understandable that Angel had just thought it was knob of the bat and called it a foul ball. But then in his video, he says, if it hits your hand. I also brought up this instance from a couple of years ago where the same thing happened. That umpire calls this a foul ball. It's nowhere near his bat. But he called it a foul ball, it didn't hit anything. It didn't hit his bat. It didn't hit his helmet, although maybe it did. And Bud Black is like, that hits you? And the batter says, no. And he says, whoa, hang on, hang on. He turns to his dugout and the umpire says, no, you can't ask for a review. That's not a reviewable play. It's a foul ball. So that's an instance where this happened where the umpire said, no, that hit his bat. It's a strike and they wanted to review it and they couldn't. This is crazy. If Angel Hernandez had thought it hit his bat and called a foul ball strike, I would say, yeah. Angel, that's a fine call because it should go to replay. But the rules of replay don't allow that to be reviewed. He didn't. He said, if it hits you and you swing, which is true, but he didn't swing. So tough. I was actually going to defend him until I really read his lips. And then I was like, damn, that stinks. Here is the other instance where the same thing happened, but it was called a different way. It hits Loreano in the hands. It actually goes into play and the umpire motions, that's a fair ball. That's a live ball. They field it. They get the out. Ramon Loreano is like, no, that hit me in the hand. They come out and they say, OK, yeah, we want to review that. And this umpire says, OK, if you want to review, hold on, let me just ask my umpire if he had a swing call. And this umpire had no swing. He said, no, he checked his swing. The ball was put in play fair. And he said he checked his swing. That allowed them to go to replay and review it. And he says, yeah, OK, we'll review it then. If that's the case, they go review it. And the umpire's came back after review. And the call is overturned on the field. It's a hit by pitch. And Seattle was pissed because they're like, what? That was a swing. It shouldn't have been reviewable. You should have just called it a swing. Or even if it was reviewable, go look at the review and come back and say, it did him in the hand. But review shows that he fucking went, guys. So it's all lies, you know? He went, guys. So it is what it is. So two instances of the same thing. And then I found one from a couple of years ago. And it's a tricky situation. Because umpires should call what they naturally think they should call. But all plays should be reviewable. Angel, I was going to defend you until I read your lips and realized that maybe he tried to change his story halfway through to save face. But he changed it the wrong way. If he thought he heard knob of the bat, that's totally fair for him to call that. Instead, he said, you swung and it hit you. But the dude, he didn't swing. And it's not his call. This was brought to you by DraftKings. Thank you to DraftKings for sponsoring the video. I appreciate you guys. I appreciate everyone for watching them. This was a fun one. There was a lot of nooks and crannies. I just kept adding to it and adding to it and adding to it. It was fun. DraftKings, thank you. See you. Goodbye.