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Andrew Joseph

Buck Showalter went off on the umpires after a botched HBP call led to another Mets meltdown

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen held a press conference on Wednesday as he hoped to address the frustrations about the team’s dreadful season thus far. But when it came time to actually play the game on Wednesday, it was more of the same.

Seriously, nothing seems to be going right for the Mets, and a 5-2 loss to the Brewers was another example of that.

With Joey Wiemer up in the eighth inning with two on and two outs, a high-and-inside sinker from Adam Ottavino caught Wiemer right on the hand. It looked in real time that Wiemer swung through the contact to his hand, and replays confirmed that. It was swing — like, a full swing.

First base umpire Ron Kulpa, however, incorrectly ruled that Wiemer held up his swing, so he was awarded first base instead of a painful strike. Mets manager Buck Showalter was already frustrated about the call. But when Christian Yelich hit a two-run single three pitches later, Showalter lost it.

He came out to argue the call with Kulpa and was subsequently ejected. It was his second ejection in four days as the season continued to go off the rails for the Mets.

After the game, Showalter said that he was surprised how both the home plate umpire Carlos Torres and Kulpa at first base missed the call.

MLB fans echoed that sentiment: It was a terrible missed call. But it was the exact kind of thing that would happen to the struggling Mets.

This was how Twitter reacted

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