Padres closer Mason Miller loses wild scoreless streak on controversial fair-foul call against Cubs

Mason Miller is quality aft all. Sort of.

The San Diego Padres person had not allowed a tally successful his erstwhile 34.2 innings pitched entering Monday night, but it each ended owed to a shot that near the bat astatine lone 49.5 mph and appeared onshore successful foul territory.

Chicago Cubs' Matt Shaw came to the crockery with the Padres starring 9-5 and the ascendant Miller connected the bump. He rolled implicit a 1-1 breaking shot that dribbled down the 3rd basal line, hugging the foul enactment the full way, but erstwhile 3rd baseman Ty France picked it up aft it stopped rolling, the umpire called it fair.

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San Diego Padres 3rd baseman Ty France reacts arsenic umpire Dan Merzel rules a azygous deed by Chicago Cubs 3rd baseman Matt Shaw just during the ninth inning astatine Petco Park successful San Diego, California, connected April 27, 2026. (Denis Poroy/Imagn Images)

Both France and Padres manager Craig Stammen argued the telephone and replays seemed to intelligibly amusement the basal of the shot was wholly successful foul ground. However, the ruling was upheld pursuing a gathering betwixt the umps, and the play was not reviewable.

Miller past allowed 2 much singles to load the bases, and a unit retired brought Shaw in. Miller past threw a chaotic transportation to bring location different run.

By allowing his archetypal 2 runs of the season, Miller's ERA ballooned each the mode up to 1.26.

"The telephone is what it is," Miller told reporters aft the game, via ESPN. "I thought I saw thing different, but helium was a batch person than I was. And I deliberation everybody successful the stadium had an opinion, but yet it's lone his that matters, truthful that's the cards we were dealt."

San Diego Padres 3rd baseman Ty France waits arsenic a azygous deed by Chicago Cubs 3rd baseman Matt Shaw rolls foul during the ninth inning astatine Petco Park successful San Diego, California, connected April 27, 2026. (Denis Poroy/Imagn Images)

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"Padres win, that's what matters astatine the extremity of the day,"

"It stopped rolling," France added. "I thought it was foul, but they said otherwise. They said they some had it just and it's a non-reviewable play."

There is statement that, considering the shot is evidently a sphere, a bird's-eye presumption would artifact the achromatic line, meaning it was really a correctly-called just ball. However, the MLB regularisation publication states that a just shot is "a batted shot that settles connected just crushed betwixt location and archetypal base, oregon betwixt location and 3rd base."

In immoderate case, the streak was the eighth-longest by a reliever since the enlargement epoch began successful 1961, which is surely thing to sneeze at.

San Diego Padres alleviation pitcher Mason Miller throws a transportation during the ninth inning against the Seattle Mariners astatine Petco Park successful San Diego, California, connected April 16, 2026. (David Frerker/Imagn Images)

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And arsenic for Miller, helium appeared to determination connected quickly.

"The quality of it is you get to commencement different one," he said.

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