Bryce Harper thinks umpire is too soft to be an umpire, a breakdown

Bryce Harper thinks this umpire is too soft to be an umpire. This breakdown is brought to you by Scott's Miracle-Gro. Let's get into it. Top of the third. Phillies are up 4-0. There's two outs. 0-1 count. The next pitch. Fastball outside. Evens the count. 1-1. Back in Bryce's favor. And then he doesn't swing at that curveball. 2-1. He's working the count. This next pitch is pretty big. 2-1 pitch is very big. I'll show you the stats in a second. He's going to go high. Fastball. And the ump calls it a strike. And Bryce is like, come on, man. What? Here's the pitch. And it's high. Data says it's out of the zone. Now, here's why the 2-1 pitch is the most important. These are MLB League splits for the year. After a 2-2 pitch, the average batting average is 182. A 293 on base percentage. A 298 slugging. 591 OPS. But after a 3-1 count, the numbers get a lot better. 252 batting average. Look at the on base percentage. It goes from 293 to 594. The slugging jumps up and the OPS nearly doubles. So, the 2-1 pitch is the biggest swing pitch of an at-bat. And when you lay off a ball that's out of the zone and the umpire calls it a strike, it really changes the at-bat. Now, if you go even further and look at just teams, after a 2-2 pitch, the Phillies, they're 12th in MLB with a 604 OPS and a 308 on base percentage. But if you look at the Phillies after a 3-1 pitch, they're the second best team in baseball. A 302 batting average. A 1.195 OPS. Let's go even further and look at Bryce Harper's splits. Well, after a 3-1 pitch, he's ******* so good. 364 batting average. 702 on base percentage. 702 on base percentage after 3-1 pitches. 1.293 after 2-2 pitches. It's not the same. It's a 278 on base percentage. So, that pitch being called incorrectly in that count is the most drastic effect a single pitch can have in the swing of things, besides maybe the first pitch. So, that's why Harper's like, come on, that is massively different. Now the pitcher gets to throw more junk and dance around the zone and entice Harper to swing, and he's gonna throw a really nice curveball that just goes whoop, bam! And Harper swings, chucks the bat, chucks the helmet, you start taking his gloves off, and throw some more ----! Toss him! And while they're yelling that, Harper turns and says something like, no way in hell. No, that's not a strike. And the umpire just ejects him, and Harper's like, oh, are you serious? What? He's like, I tried to tell ya. I tried to tell ya. I don't know how he could have warned him in time. I tried to tell ya. And Harper goes, so you throw me outright? Get off me! Poor coach, going Dean Porton on him on the way to the penalty box. Hey, don't touch me. How the **** you throw me out for that? I didn't say anything. For what? You're soft. I'm allowed to throw my stuff. He's actually not. He can get fined for it, but usually they don't get ejected for simply that. I don't know what he said. If he said the U word, whatever, but now Harper says, you're soft. You're so soft. You shouldn't be a ******* umpire. That's how it ends. Bryce Harper giving some career advice on his way out. Recently, my career took a little bit of a turn. I started doing play-by-play for 11-year-old Wiffle Ball games. Scott's Miracle-Gro had me out for Scott's Lawn Stream. They're doing a whole Lawn Stream fest, and I kicked it off by doing play-by-play for a Wiffle Ball game on the live stream, which is the Lawn Stream. They have a whole series of live backyard events. I did Wiffle Ball. They got Cornhole coming up. They're building birdhouses. Right now, you can get 20% off on two or more Scott's products at scotts.com when you use code JOMBOY. Thanks for watching, guys. I appreciate it. Enjoy your days.