HOUSTON, TX — While the Yankees bullpen completely melted down from the sixth inning on, the latest Yankees loss to a postseason team was also aided from a really poor performance by the home plate umpire Brian Walsh. According to Umpire Auditor, and account on X, Walsh missed twenty-one calls on Wednesday, and fifteen went against the Yankees, making it harder for the Yankees to win the game

After the game, there was also this image of home plate umpire Brian Walsh in college resurfacing after his performance, making him look even worse. Umpires are supposed to umpire games with no fandome in mind at all, and it begs the question, did his personal fandom and biases impact his performance in last night’s game?

While we will almost certainly never know for certan, Walsh did seem to be on a super short fuse with the Yankees, especially with the ejections of Devin Williams and Aaron Boone. A general rule for umpires when it comes to conversation about their calls is to never use the magic word, any variance of the word “you”, like “you missed that call”. Walking off the mound, Williams did say the magic word, getting him tossed from the game, rather quickly though. A veteran player like Williams — especially with the amount of close pitches — should get more rope.

“It’s just ridiculous to have the inning that I had and then Jazz got the bat taken out of his hands on a pitch that was a lot further from the zone than pitches I was making.” Williams said after the game, and he had a point.

Then, once again, Walsh continued his unprofessionalism, staring down Aaron Boone, waiting for him to say anything, and when Boone did, he joined his pitcher in the clubhouse. Boone got his money’s worth with all four umpires, putting on a show in his AL-Leading sixth ejection of the season (one per month for the exception of March so far).

Walsh also has another issue on his hands, now being accused of subital racism. When Devin Williams was removed from the game, Comilo Doval took over, and he did not look his sharpest. He allowed an RBI single, but then he adlegedly balked. From every angle, it did not look like he balked, and if he in fact balked — which gave Houston a run — it would not have been the home plate upires call, rather the second or first base umpire. But after a wild pitch, a dicussion between bench coach Brad Ausmus, catcher Austin Wells and the umpires, Brian Walsh at home plate and the crew cheif Adrian Johnson, and things started to become much clearer.

“With Camilo, (he) doesn’t really speak great English. We only have one PitchCom that really works with just Spanish.” Austin Wells told the Athletic on Wednesday. “The umpire seemed to not — he didn’t really care or what the deal was, but said he gave us a chance to fix it the first time that we went out there, and then decided that it was a disengagement and we were trying to explain to him our case, and he said that we were lucky that we didn’t get a violation and that it was just a balk.”

So now we have an umpire taking the ability of communication away from the Yankees and telling the team that they are lucky that they were not penalised more because Doval could not understand the language that the PitchCom was using because he does not speak english. PitchCom has been around now since the start of the 2022 season, and I can’t find an incident prior to this with an umpire calling a balk, then charging a team a disengagement because a pitcher can’t understand the PitchCom and the team is trying to find the spanish-speaking PitchCom for Doval.

The cherry on top of the cake was this called strike three to Jazz Chisholm Jr. to end the game, leaving Stanton on-deck, who represented the go-ahead run after the Bellinger three-run home run in the ninth inning off reliever Brian Abreu.

Jazz certainly made his thoughts known on social media after the game as well.

The MLB Umpires Union must step in and either suspend Walsh or send him down, because this type of performance is completely unacceptable from any umpire, and the fact that Walsh will likely get away with it.