CB Bucknor leaves game after getting hit by foul…
MLB umpire CB Bucknor’s brutal week bought even worse on Wednesday.
Working as the home plate umpire, Bucknor — under intense scrutiny over dangerous calls — was struck in the facemask by a foul tip in the top of the second inning of the Rays-Brewers game in Milwaukee and had to depart the game.
Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski’s 1-2 pitch to Rays catcher Nick Fortes, which was a 100 miles per hour, was fouled back and hit Bucknor, sending the 63-year-old down to his knees in misery. A Brewers coach went out to examine on Bucknor before he exited the matinee.
Chad Fairchild, who had been manning first base, took Bucknor’s place behind home plate.
Bucknor dedicated a head-scratching blunder as the first base umpire Tuesday night time, ruling that the Brewers’ Jake Bauers missed first base while working from home plate, despite his proper foot very clearly touchdown on the bottom.
Milwaukee challenged the call and it was shortly overturned, prompting both Brewers supervisor Pat Murphy and Rays supervisor Kevin Cash to chuckle in their respective dugouts.
Bauers had hit a line drive to Rays second baseman Ben Williamson, who knocked the ball down and then threw huge of first base, which ought to have resulted in an simple protected call.
Umpire CB Bucknor (c.) goes down after getting struck in the facemask by a foul tip in the second inning of the Brewers-Rays game on April 1, 2026. Getty Images
Home plate umpire CB Bucknor (c.) leaves the Brewers-Rays game during the second inning on April 1, 2026. Michael McLoone-Imagn Images
That adopted a dismal efficiency behind the plate on Saturday during the Red Sox-Reds game, during which he had six calls overturned by ABS challenges.
Two of those overturned calls got here on consecutive pitches to Eugenio Suarez in the sixth inning. Both of Bucknor’s strike-three calls have been overturned.
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