Justin Lachney

@CodifyBaseball How many confirmed calls and what are the distance stats on those?

Through April 14: 557 ABS Challenge Overturns 263 within an inch of not being overturned 135 within a half of an inch 71 within a quarter of an inch 24 within a tenth of an inch

This is the closest overturned call we've seen so far. An ⅛ of a millimeter farther outside and it's a ball.

@mlbyogiera @Kevin_Hitt @JomboyMedia I have. Yes I’m aware. And the runner STILL wasn’t running legally. He was on the grass which is STILL illegal.

@Justin_Lachney @Kevin_Hitt @JomboyMedia Have you read the rule???? Do you know it was amended in 2024????

Tony Vitello ejected for the first time in his MLB career after umpires call the runner out here

@drudy30 @RiedellAndrew Is it random when drawing it from one point to another to show an approximate path of the ball in relation to the height of the bottom of the strike-zone?

@Justin_Lachney @RiedellAndrew lol god job randomly putting a red line on a photo. 😂

SEC umpiring has been terrible this weekend. All over the country. Just terrible.

@Skankhunter100 @AllthingsLSU I literally showed how the ball was above the knees. The zone didn’t move.

@Justin_Lachney @AllthingsLSU The strike zone doesn’t move mid pitch lmao. If you don’t think that call was low then you’re dumb.

Fucking inexcusable from an umpire. Suspension would be letting him off the hook

@WSMFP73 @AYSSPORTS The ball isn’t going to have a visible arc when analyzing it in a .05 second timeframe. The straight line is going to be pretty dang close. I never said this was some scientific drawing that was precise to the micron. My whole point is it wasn’t low, like everyone is saying.

@Justin_Lachney @AYSSPORTS I’m not arguing the ball or strike. You tried to prove a point with a straight line. That’s not possible with an off speed pitch. It would be an arch.

Jay Johnson should have lost his shit on this. It’s GARBAGE!!!

@WSMFP73 @AYSSPORTS Draw your line of how that ball progressed that shows it outside of the zone either high or low. The two photos are .05 seconds apart in real time… that ball is not some magic orb that is going to change too drastically from that straight line.

@Justin_Lachney @AYSSPORTS It wasn’t a fastball. Gravity plus top spin on an off speed pitch combined forces the ball on a sharp downward trajectory. You drew a straight line. How is this not hard to understand?

@WSMFP73 @AYSSPORTS Please draw a line on the photo that illustrates how that pitch was “too low” when it went across the plate. I’m curious.

@Justin_Lachney @AYSSPORTS You drew a fucking straight line retard

@Kevin_Hitt @JomboyMedia And it still doesn’t matter. What matters is how the rule is written! And players must follow that rule; not what “more than just me” think.

@Justin_Lachney @JomboyMedia I'll bet there's more than just me....smart ass.

@WSMFP73 @AYSSPORTS Because that is the absolute WORST case scenario!

@Kevin_Hitt @JomboyMedia Well… let’s teach ALL professional players to play based off how some dude named Kevin “think(s)” the rule should be.

@Justin_Lachney @JomboyMedia We will disagree. I think the runner lanes should be the width of the base, starting where it currently starts.

@SchottHayden Mehhhh… I don’t think he will lose sleep. Catcher absolutely hung him out to dry with how he received that pitch. Brutal job by the catcher.

This is going to be an incredibly hard watch for big hoss behind the dish when he gets on his phone after this game.

@WSMFP73 @AYSSPORTS Explain how it works then. Did the ball dip below the zone from the time we see it in photo one, and then come back up when we see it in photo two? THAT is not how gravity works.

@Justin_Lachney @AYSSPORTS That’s not how gravity works on an off speed pitch

@Kevin_Hitt @JomboyMedia The rule allows a legal way to run. It isn’t a bad rule. Players just have to follow the rule. It’s on them!

@Justin_Lachney @JomboyMedia Oh I understand that...I just think the rule is really bad AND isnt always enforced.

@iammattromero @FreedomRocks9 @11point7 Ok, so my point being, AT THE WORST this is where it went. With curve/trajectory, it was potentially higher than the line. It certainly wasn’t below the line and then came UP from the position of the ball in photo one and two.

@Justin_Lachney @FreedomRocks9 @11point7 The catcher caught it off the ground so this line is not accurate

THE WORST STRIKE 3 CALL EVER. PATHETIC. JAY JOHNSON TOSSED

@Kevin_Hitt @JomboyMedia That is actually covered in the rule. The runner, assuming he has run legally the entire time, is allowed to exit the lane in his final step in order to touch the base.

@JomboyMedia How can you run in the "runner's lane" when only 2 inches of the base in actually in the runners lane?

@LCourt357 @Tingle__Co Happy Easter to you buddy!

@Justin_Lachney @Tingle__Co That’s the leg to stand on. The way he received it made it look like a throwaway pitch in an 0-2 count, combine that with a delayed strike three call, you get a reaction. That’s science.

In no world should that ever be called a strike I mean its not even close

@LCourt357 @Tingle__Co Just offering my umpire glasses.

@FreedomRocks9 @11point7 It’s literally a straight line between the top of the ball from one frame to the next. The catcher received that pitch as poorly as you possibly could. But the ball crossed at the knees.

@Justin_Lachney @11point7 Yeah, ok. Don't believe my lying eyes? A dude used Paint to draw a made up red line. 😆

@realdevinoc @RiedellAndrew What?

@Justin_Lachney @RiedellAndrew This angle is from way down the first base line. The image on the right shows the ball crossing the plate

@zachbrown1213 @AYSSPORTS So the ball magically dipped down and came back up over .001 seconds? Ok

@Justin_Lachney @AYSSPORTS Nice line you drew there. That was not the trajectory, though