Ump Show: 3 bad calls that impacted the MLB Playoff picture this week

1) Back-to-back wrong strike calls in a huge situation for the Yankees, Twins

To start the week, the New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins faced each other in New York. The Yankees won the first three games of the four game series after they had been reeling for much of the last two months.

The Yankees are trying to hang on the AL East title for dear life and the Twins are trying to desperately stay in the playoff picture in the extremely weak AL Central.

The Twins had a 4-3 lead in the ninth inning but the Yankees loaded the bases with one out for infielder Gleyber Torres. He worked a 2-0 count … but he had two consecutive strikes called against him by the home plate umpire and crew chief Larry Vanover.

Torres ended up striking out. Isaiah Kiner-Falefa grounded out after him to end the game without scoring. With that, the Yankees lost and the Twins won so those two strike calls could loom large.

In the game in general, it would have been a tie game if both were called balls so, at minimum, the game would have gone to extra innings.

Overall, Vanover had a 93.1 plate score for the game, per Ump Scorecards.