Reds win all 5 ABS challenges against CB Bucknor

[Spider John]

Isn't that a shock?

[CardsofSTL]

Pretty sure no one hates the ABS challenge more than CB

[ghostrunner]

Oh that’s awesome

[Spider John]

Former Reds pitcher turned colorman Sam Leclure knows CB. Go to about 28 seconds in.

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[heyzeus]

I want an umpire fantasy league, and it’s just drafting the umps that will lose the most challlenges

[WAR God]

This type of humiliation is necessary, unfortunately.

[Spider John]

He was overturned 6 times out of 8 challenges. He also called a check swing strike 3 on Red Sox Trevor Storey without asking for any help, which ended the 8th inning with the tying and go ahead run on base. This caused Alex Cora to get tossed. He had himself a day.

[CardsofSTL]

Not Bucknor but this was a funny challenge also.

[AdmiralKird]

I'm curious if it stays this way for more than a season before the umpires themselves just want to relay ABS balls and strikes. They're inevitably going to lose more challenges than not. You can't go backward now, and umpires aren't going to want their already thankless jobs to be subjected to repeated, immediate humiliation.

[CardsofSTL]