First Bases-Loaded Walk Overturned to Strikeout

0:00On April 27, in the first game of a double-header, New York Met's third baseman Brett Beatty became the first player ever to lose a bassist-loaded walk-to. A call, third strike, by a Major League Baseball's new challenge system. Umpire Ryan Blackning called ball four on a full-count sinker, but Colorado Rockies catcher Brett Sullivan appealed and the automated ball strike. System flipped it to a strikeout, ending the top of the first. That call kept the Met's off the board and what became a three-to-one Rockies win, and New York got swept in the nightcap, three-nothing, for a three-game. Series loss, their 15th defeat and 17 outings. Beatty thought he had that run-scoring walk locked in, dropping his bat and heading to first before the reversal hit. Met's pitcher, Jose Quintana, admitted he was shocked by an earlier challenge, too, where Toronto's boba-shit turned a first-pitch strike into a walk. Out of seven challenges that day, four got overturned, including a couple more walks

1:00drawn by the White Sox. This marched the fourth bases, loaded walk changed to a strikeout this season, but Beatty's was the first to slam the door on an inning. The ABS systems shaking things up early, forcing players and pitchers to adjust on the fly, and you know it's only going to get more intense as the season rolls on. That's the story for today. New York Met's News Today. Urban by A.I.