"Time to retire" - Fans roast Yankees vs. Blue Jays umpire over bizarre premature strikeout call on $22.05M star

"Time to retire" - Fans roast Yankees vs. Blue Jays umpire over bizarre premature strikeout call on $22.05M star

The New York Yankees vs. the Toronto Blue Jays matchup took a bizarre turn after umpire Hunter Wendelstedt found himself at the center of social media criticism.

Paul Goldschmidt's bizarre zero-pitch at-bat led to Yankees' go-ahead run against Blue Jays

You don't see a sequence like this very often.

Umpire Hunter Wendelstedt made the most embarrassing mistake

Home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt made one of the more embarrassing mistakes an umpire can make early in Sunday’s game between the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays. Trent Grisham was batting for the Yankees in the top of the first inning of Sunday’s game and facing a 1-1 count. Blue Jays pitcher Dylan Cease dropped a curveball on him that Wendelstadt enthusiastically punched Grisham out on, even though it was only strike two. Umpire run…