This Little Leaguer Got Rung Up to End a Game on One of the Worst Calls Ever Made

Every year during the little League World Series, we hear about what heroes the umpires are for volunteering to work the event. And that's certainly an admirable thing to do — assuming you're halfway capable of doing a somewhat acceptable job. But a supervisor needs to pull this home plate ump aside and have a conversation.

It's a 3-2 count. A walk loads the bases with two outs for a New Mexico team down by a run. The ball is at the hitter's ankles as well as in the other batter's box. Strike three.

This is the first frame where the catcher has the ball in his glove. Look at this shit!

In complete fairness to the umpire, it is only a foot or so off the plate.

And I get that the strike zone needs to be a little bigger for 12-year-olds. Fair enough. But I don't know how either of these teams scored when these kids were getting these calls. There should have been dueling perfect games through six innings.

This is why I'll never be able to coach Little League baseball, too. I would have been banned from the rest of the tournament after what I would have said to that volunteer umpire. I don't care if you're getting paid or not when you're ruining kids' hopes and dreams.

Bring in the robots. They may give a curveball or two that technically crosses the plate in the zone and ends up in the dirt, but at least this would have been a ball.