Tigers broadcaster Jason Benetti can't believe what he's witnessing from the MLB replay office.
Is someone drunk? Are replay officials even looking at the footage fans at home see? Benetti and Tigers color analyst Andy Dirks worked a game Thursday that included two calls that ended up in the hands of umpires favoring the Mets, who won the game 9-4 for a three-game sweep.
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Gage Workman of the Detroit Tigers is thrown out by Brett Baty of the New York Mets during their game at Citi Field in New York City on May 14, 2026. (Al Bello/Getty Images)
“This is going to get ugly quick,” Dirks said seconds after the home plate umpire announced that the New York front office overturned a fifth-inning call. To be fair, the game got ugly in the top of the fourth when Tigers manager AJ Hinch was ejected from the game after getting into a shouting match with the umpire over a call at third base.
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By the next inning, Benetti and Dirks had seen enough. “I'll tell you what, the Tigers have a good right to believe that something is not on their side right now, whether it's the baseball gods or whatever,” Benetti added after Dirks' comment. “The first one was ridiculous. The first one should have been safe. This one, I just don't know if we've seen clear evidence of anything.”
“If that wasn't clear evidence in the third instance, how can you have clear evidence at the beginning? I'm beside myself trying to understand what these rules mean and who has discretion over what,” Dirks responded.
MLB maintains a page on its website where it shows multiple angles of replay challenges. Here is the play from the fourth inning. Even the Mets booth says the Tigers running back was safe. New York replay officials didn't see it that way. You make the call. Based on additional images provided by MLB, overriding the fifth inning appears to be the correct decision.
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To Dirks' point, how is the fifth inning decision different from the fourth? Watch the videos and tell me. What is clear is that baseball now needs to find a way to determine a definitive angle. And show it to fans in real time. They shouldn't have to visit the MLB replay archive every night.
