First and foremost, this is extremely NOT an explanation or an excuse for why the Cubs dropped the finale against the White Sox yesterday at Rate Field. In fact, the overall umpire awfulness from Sunday’s game worked in favor of the Cubs to the tune of +.065 runs. But it was still sufficiently awful that it felt like it needed to be called out.
If you were watching yesterday’s game between the Cubs and the White Sox, you may have noticed an unusually large volume of ABS challenges (12, to be exact). And nine of those twelve challenges were overturned. The Cubs went 4-5 on challenges and the Sox went 5-7. That’s a 75% overturned rate for the game, which is WELL above the 54% mark across the league.
But that’s only the calls that were challenged.
The number of missed calls in total far exceeded that:
Umpire Chris Segal missed a SEASON HIGH 27 calls in a game and 18 went against the White Sox.The White Sox still managed to win 9-8 in 10 innings. pic.twitter.com/afHBrrRJu5
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) May 18, 2026According to Umpire Auditor, home plate umpire Chris Segal missed a season-high 27 calls in the game, 18 of which went against the White Sox. And Umpire Scorecard had Segal with an 89% accuracy (average is 94%). That’s just a brutally called game.
The funny part is that Segal’s consistency (96%) was actually higher than the league average, so at least he was wrong in the same way? Not sure that’s a good thing in the modern game, but it would have been a point of debate in a pre-ABS world.
And as it turns out, Segal is no stranger to badly called games.
His overall accuracy this season sits at 91.9%, which ranks sixth-worst in MLB among the 91 qualified umpires. And none of the five umps with a lower accuracy have called nearly as many games:
Chris Segal: 9 games, 91.9% Jacob Metz: 5 games, 91.6% Felix Neon: 2 games, 91.48% CB Bucknor: 2 games, 91.3% Jen Pawol: 2 games, 90.4% Ron Kulpa: 3 games, 89.7%Segal has also now had 48 calls challenged (5th worst) and 35 calls overturned (tied for the worst in MLB) this season. That gives him the second-highest challenge win rate (for those challenging him) in the entire league.
Again, if anything, this helped the Cubs, but it was so striking and obvious during the game that I had to call it out.
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