MLB Fans Ripped Ump Phil Cuzzi for His Embarrassingly Bad Calls That Led to an Ejection

Fans want this ump to be suspended.

Andy Nesbitt | Jun 6, 2023

MLB Fans Ripped Ump Phil Cuzzi for His Embarrassingly Bad Calls That Led to an Ejection /

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Major League Baseball has a lot of bad umpires working games this year and one of the worst has to be Phil Cuzzi.

Cuzzi has been making the wrong type of headlines a lot so far this season and that continued Monday night when he made a number of awful calls while working behind the plate in the Cubs-Padres game in San Diego.

Cuzzi had a very hard time being consistent with his strike zone, which led to Cubs manager David Ross being ejected in just the second inning after yelling at the umpire following some bad calls.

Take a look at some of these calls and you’ll see why the Cubs were so upset:

Here's more proof that he was terrible:

MLB fans have had enough of Cuzzi:

Published Jun 6, 2023

ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.