Blue Jays' Jose Bautista calls replay a 'joke'

The Toronto Blue Jays are in a slump - losing three straight against the Oakland Athletics on their current road trip - but that's not why Jose Bautista was so visibly upset in the dugout in the bottom of the eighth inning Saturday.

In the top of the eighth inning, Bautista hit a double down the line that looked to score Melky Cabrera from first. Cabrera was called out by home plate umpire Bill Miller. The Jays used their challenge on the call, and on further review, the call on the field stood.

Bautista, who saw the play develop while standing at second base, wasn't pleased with the call, and said this about the replay system post-game (Via: Sportsnet.ca)

“(Norris) missed (Cabrera) by a good foot or two,” he said. “I don’t really know which replay they were looking at but clearly they must have had a different video feed than the one we had. It’s pretty frustrating for you to battle as a team, keep the game close, for our pitchers to be doing what they’re doing, for us to keep grinding through games and facing some touch pitching and somehow be able to tie the game in the eighth inning, it all goes down the drain because somebody first, initially, made a bad call to begin with. And then it gets upheld by god knows who, in some room in New York supposedly.

“This whole replay thing has become a joke in my eyes. I think they should just ban it, they should just get rid of it, I don’t really understand the purpose of it, but getting the right call on the field is not the purpose. That’s pretty obvious and evident. I don’t know what kind of agenda the people that are doing the replays are on, what their plan is, what their purpose is, who they’re looking after. But obviously getting the right call on the field is not what they’re doing.”

Here's the play in question. You be the judge.

[Courtesy: MLB.com]

Bautista may be fined for the small outburst.