There have always been controversial calls aplenty in baseball, but the advantage is that these days we can check pretty conclusively to see who was right. Turns out Mark Scioscia and Brian Fuentes had a pretty legit beef with the home plate umpire, as shown in the graph below.

I’d be peeved too. Too bad Bob Watson will almost certainly hand out significant fines to both Scioscia and Fuentes. After all, why should someone complain when the home plate umpire gives away the game in the bottom of the ninth by calling a down the middle strike ball 4 to walk in a run?

Then again, it’s pretty hard to ring up a player like Nick Green, who is known for his career .307 OBP incredible batter’s eye.