Alex Cora miraculously not ejected by Laz Diaz for worst strike call of postseason

Home plate umpire Laz Diaz called out Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez on an awful strike call during Game 4 of the ALCS.

The Boston Red Sox are looking to push the Houston Astros to the brink of elimination with a Game 4 win on Tuesday night. They certainly got off to a great start, but they had to deal with what seems to be a daily bad call by an umpire in a postseason game.

In the bottom of the third inning, slugger J.D. Martinez was called out on strikes following a seven-pitch a4-bat against Cristian Javier. The thing is, the last pitch was way outside of the strike zone, as evidenced in the tweet below:

Manager Alex Cora was incensed by the call and had to be pushed back into the dugout by third base coach Carlos Febles. Surprisingly, Cora was not ejected from the game.

Alex Cora was somehow not ejected for arguing terrible call by Laz Diaz

There is no mistaking it, that seventh pitch thrown by Javier should have been called a ball and Martinez should have been awarded first base. Boston would have had Martinez and Alex Verdugo on base with one out on the board. Instead, Martinez was called out and Hunter Renfroe struck out in the next at-bat to end the inning.

Despite this, the Red Sox still held a 2-1 lead. Houston did get on the board in the top of the first on a solo home run by Alex Bregman, but Boston took the lead on a two-run homer by Xander Bogaerts.

Boston may have gotten a larger lead in the bottom of the third, had Diaz not made that awful call.