Christian Yelich already played hero once in the game against the Houston Astros on Monday afternoon. Yelich hit a game-tying solo shot to tie up the Astros in the ninth inning. He had an opportunity to play the role again in the 10th with two runners on and one out in the inning. As Yelich battled with Josh James, the pitcher for Houston, he threw a high fastball that should have been ball three to make it a full count. Instead, the umpire Ben May behind the plate called it strike three. It is one of the worst calls of the year when you consider the moment.

I guess this is the pitch Yelich will be talking about after the gamehttps://t.co/Q8T5mK4AZy pic.twitter.com/o4Blj1fPJL

— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) September 2, 2019

Yelich: “I’ve got to be careful with what I say, but yeah, you guys can look and form your own judgements.” pic.twitter.com/7GUuyve4PM

— Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy) September 3, 2019

Robot umpires are going to come sooner rather than later in baseball. While they wouldn’t be actual robots on the field, the umpires will have something in place where it tells them that it is a ball. That would have been helpful yesterday. The other part of this that is so frustrating is the situation the Brewers are in currently. They need to win every game they possibly can leading to the final game of the year. Losing a game like this to a good Houston team makes you think.

Charlie.