Twins' Rocco Baldelli rages after controversial call in loss to Blue Jays: 'I think it was pathetic'

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Minnesota Twins manager Rocco Baldelli was raging following a controversial call during his team’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.

The Twins and the Blue Jays, both in the middle of playoff races, went into the 10th inning. Cavan Biggio was up and hit a pop fly that would send Whit Merrifield scurrying for home plate. Merrifield was initially called out at the plate on the bang-bang play, but after a challenge and review, it was ruled that he was safe because catcher Gary Sanchez was blocking the plate and didn’t establish a lane for Merrifield.

Target Field erupted in a loud chorus of boos and Baldelli came out of the dugout fuming. The Twins manager threw his cap onto the ground and was ejected from the game.

Minnesota Twins catcher Gary Sanchez tags out Toronto Blue Jays' Whit Merrifield, who tagged from third on a sacrifice fly by Cavan Biggio, during the 10th inning in Minneapolis on Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

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Toronto won, 3-2.

Baldelli did not hold back during his postgame press conference.

"In all of baseball, the thousands and thousands of games and plays at home where the catcher actually does block the plate over and over and over again, that play has virtually never been called," he said via Bally Sports North. "And for someone to step in in that situation and [decide] someone was blocking the plate, that's beyond embarrassing for our game, for all the players out there on both sides of the field working their ass off for the entire game. It's completely unacceptable.

"It's one of the worst moments I think we've seen of umpiring in any game I've ever