Dewayne Wise drops the ball but still gets the out, a breakdown

One of the most unnecessarily wrong calls in MLB history, the year is 2012. This breakdown is brought to you by SeatGeek. We got Phil Hughes up, a runner on third, seventh inning, two outs. Looking to strand that runner, keep the shutout. First pitch, fastball inside. Next pitch, curveball outside. Third pitch, fastball inside. Two strikes now. Goes fastball right down the middle. It's fouled up. Is it going to stay in play? Dwayne Wise coming, coming. Did he grab it? Do we have a moment? Do we have a camera shot? What's going on? They cut away. Phil Hughes, uh, yes. All right. Dwayne Wise comes back onto the field and runs in and just keeps running. It's Jeter's birthday. They high five, and then they do the national anthem. No, they do God Bless America. And he's muttering, oh, they don't show the replay. Please don't show the replay on the big screen. And the reason why, if you watch the replay, did you see it? Did you see it? Did you see this guy's platinum hair? Well, watch again if you missed it. It goes into his glove, and then it very clearly falls out of his glove. I mean, it really just stopped it. We've got the guy with a brace on his right arm, only left arm. He helps him up. Really nice guy. And then puts on his hat. He's a Blue Jays fan. So, of course, he's a nice guy. Huh? Kid helps him up. That kid's probably so excited. The umpire runs in. That man is wearing a nice sweater. Tuesday night. He's dressed up. Just delightful. Like, that's a nice clap, clap, clap. So, here's this shot. And the best part about this is Dwayne Wise didn't even try to sell this as a catch. He, all he did was stand up after falling. Guy's got an itchy stomach behind him, huh? It's tough. Tough time to just be itching, digging away in there. Wow. Anyway, stands up. Look at his glove and his hand. It's down. It's open. A ball isn't in there. And he's not trying to sell it at all. That doesn't matter. The umpire runs in and says, out. Doesn't ask to see the ball. He's standing right there. Just out. And then, really, the best part is it gets even worse for the umpire. The ball rolled down. The man in the red shirt. He reaches down, grabs it, holds it up in the air. The guy next to him, oh, you got the ball? He's like, yeah, I got the ball. The umpire, all he had to do was look left. And he would have seen the ball in that gentleman's hands. He didn't look left. He just said, out. So, there you go. Out. And the guy holds it up again. He's like, out. But I have it. Okay. Great catch. Now, Hanahan watched the replay in between innings, came back out to talk to the umpire, and was just giving him umpiring 101 lessons. And he just said, you got to at least tell him. You got to say, show me the ******* ball. I didn't do that. You know what? Don't ever ******* come out here and start something with me again. Wait, what did I do? You know what? You're throwing me out? You're right. What did you throw me out? You're right. And you don't come out and say something after. I know. And you're right about that. Yeah. And I listened to you. Yeah. But don't come out here and tell me I'm wrong when I already know I'm wrong. Hurts my dang feelings. You know? I'm not going to walk up to you and be like, dude, you struck out. Anyway, the umpire did go on to talk to reporters, which a lot of them don't. And he said, I went out on the ball and saw the ball into his glove in the stands. He disappeared in the stands, and I believed that the ball was in his glove. Now that I see the tape, it's obvious that the ball fell out of his glove. In hindsight, I should have asked him to show me the ball. We all agree. Jack Hanahan went on to say, I can live with the fact that he didn't see him drop the ball, or live with the fact that he didn't see the fan jumping up and down two feet away, excited he got a foul ball. But to not ask him to see the ball is absolutely inexcusable, and it's frustrating. And then they asked Dwayne Wise his thoughts, and he said, normally when a guy makes a play like that, that's the first thing they ask him, to show him the ball. But I guess he was confident that I made the catch. He made the call really quickly. I just told myself to try to get up, keep myself together, and run off the field. It was a tough angle for him, but truthfully, the ball popped out. Now this was one of the bigger catalysts for replay, because I don't need to finish that sentence. But this, couple other plays, it was like, hey, with replay we just like eliminate it. So that is one of my favorite unnecessarily wrong calls. Player wasn't even trying to dupe the umpire. He just decided, I've seen enough, and I am correct. Thank you to SeatGeek for sponsoring this breakdown. If you're going to see something, use code Johnboy10 to get 10% off any tickets. Download the SeatGeek app. They got tons of events. Go see something new. Try something new. Do something new. Or same old. Doesn't matter. 10% either way. Johnboy10, SeatGeek.