San Diego Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr. leaves game with injury..

San Diego Padres star outfielder Fernando Tatis Jr. left Friday’s game in Pittsburgh after getting hit by a pitch in the 3rd inning..

The San Diego Padres have been ravaged by injuries so far this Major League Baseball season. Friday night in Pittsburgh, the team’s star outfielder was the latest to be injured.

In the 3rd inning, Fernando Tatis Jr. was at bat when Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller hit Tatis in the left forearm with a 93 miles per hour pitch.

Fernando Tatis Jr. left the game after being hit by this pitch

You could see the swelling already on his left forearm pic.twitter.com/TuCzvRrij5

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) May 3, 2025
Tatis immediately went down to the ground in pain, as the Padres medical staff rushed on to the field.

After a few minutes of examination near the batters box, Tatis walked off the field surrounded by the teams medical staff. There was a visible large welt on Tatis’s forearm where he was hit by the pitch.

At 6:56pm PST Friday the Padres posted an injury update on social media saying, “Fernando Tatis Jr. exited tonight’s game with a left forearm contusion. Initial x-rays are negative. He’s receiving treatment and will continue to be evaluated.”

So far this season, Tatis has a .345 batting average, a team high 8 home runs, 18 RBI and a 1.011 OPS.

Max Scherzer mocks umpire’s strike zone

“A chance level performance is giving too much credit to CB.”

Being a home plate umpire is perhaps the hardest assignment for any official in all of sports, constantly receiving criticism on a nightly basis from fans, players, and umpires alike. But very rarely do you see players not even involved in the game openly criticize a home plate umpire as harshly as Toronto Blue Jays starter Max Scherzer did to CB Bucknor from the dugout on Friday.

Bucknor had a far from stellar start to the game in the eyes of most Blue Jays fans, calling balls on a number of pitches that perhaps should have been called strikes. Meanwhile, their opponents, the Cleveland Guardians, appeared to get a much more favorable strike zone through the first two innings.

This seemingly started to get under Max Scherzer’s skin.

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In the top of the fifth inning, Scherzer was shown on the Sportsnet broadcast mocking a strike call from Bucknor by doing the motion of flipping a coin and signaling a strike call.

The San Diego Padres have been ravaged by injuries so far this Major League Baseball season. Friday night in Pittsburgh, the team’s star outfielder was the latest to be injured.

In the 3rd inning, Fernando Tatis Jr. was at bat when Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller hit Tatis in the left forearm with a 93 miles per hour pitch.

Fernando Tatis Jr. left the game after being hit by this pitch.

You could see the swelling already on his left forearm pic.twitter.com/TuCzvRrij5

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) May 3, 2025
Tatis immediately went down to the ground in pain, as the Padres medical staff rushed on to the field.

After a few minutes of examination near the batters box, Tatis walked off the field surrounded by the teams medical staff. There was a visible large welt on Tatis’s forearm where he was hit by the pitch.

At 6:56pm PST Friday the Padres posted an injury update on social media saying, “Fernando Tatis Jr. exited tonight’s game with a left forearm contusion. Initial x-rays are negative. He’s receiving treatment and will continue to be evaluated.”

So far this season, Tatis has a .345 batting average, a team high 8 home runs, 18 RBI and a 1.011 OPS.

Max Scherzer mocks umpire’s strike zone
“A chance level performance is giving too much credit to CB.”

Being a home plate umpire is perhaps the hardest assignment for any official in all of sports, constantly receiving criticism on a nightly basis from fans, players, and umpires alike. But very rarely do you see players not even involved in the game openly criticize a home plate umpire as harshly as Toronto Blue Jays starter Max Scherzer did to CB Bucknor from the dugout on Friday.

Bucknor had a far from stellar start to the game in the eyes of most Blue Jays fans, calling balls on a number of pitches that perhaps should have been called strikes. Meanwhile, their opponents, the Cleveland Guardians, appeared to get a much more favorable strike zone through the first two innings.

This seemingly started to get under Max Scherzer’s skin.

freestar
In the top of the fifth inning, Scherzer was shown on the Sportsnet broadcast mocking a strike call from Bucknor by doing the motion of flipping a coin and signaling a strike call.

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